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Advocating for the importance of the arts in schools, the Jordan Schnitzer
Museum of Art has partnered with Edison Elementary School for the past year
exploring the relationship between sustainability, food, and art. The
museum offers in-class projects for 3rd grade students at the school, and
after school classes for K-5th grade Edison students take place at the
museum.
Inspired by the special loan of Hero: Portrait of the Irish Celtic
Temperament and the museum’s recent acquisition of Irish Goat, this
selection of paintings and works on paper showcases Morris Graves’s goat
imagery from the 1950s.
McCosh in Europe features works he made in the late 1920s, while traveling
in England, France, Ireland, and Italy on a scholarship from the Art
Institute of Chicago. The exhibition also features works created during his
sabbatical from the UO in the late 1950s, when he returned to many of these
places as well as Spain.
David McCosh arrived in Eugene in 1934 as a new faculty member in the
Department of Art. Inspired by the rugged environment of his new home, he
began to pursue a method of painting based purely on direct observation of
nature.
From the Ground Up honors the Department of Art’s first Master of Fine
Arts recipient, Gordon Gilkey ’36. For his thesis project, Gilkey secured
funding from the Works Progress Administration to document the construction
of the University of Oregon’s new library, designed by campus architect and
Dean of AAA Ellis Lawrence (American, 1879-1946), who also designed this
museum.
The Art of the Athlete outreach program results in works of art for the
public to view and writing samples that document how the project makes
meaning for them. The exhibition—our third in three years!--becomes a forum
for the student athletes to express what is sometimes invisible on the
field and on the court.
Curated by Samantha Hull, a 2013 graduate of the Department of the History
of Art and Architecture, the exhibition showcases photography from the
1960s and ’70s when the medium grew in respect as an art form and began
exploring new expressive possibilities, including environmental documentary
work.
This exhibition directly supports JSMA’s work at Edison Elementary School
and our school tours this fall. During the winter, work created by Edison
students will be displayed in our Artist Project Space to illustrate how
Chambers’s work has inspired them not only to embrace creating art for
expression, but also to select a healthier plate when making decisions
about eating.
Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery
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Awakening features the haunting, surreal work of Ryo Toyonaga, a New York
City-based contemporary artist, in his first major museum retrospective.
The exhibition surveys 20 years of ceramic and mixed-media sculpture,
drawing and painting. Toyonaga’s imagery is drawn from a wellspring of
recurrent dreams.
Geraldine Ondrizek, an artist and professor at Reed College, creates
installations that explore personal and political issues related to
genetics, ethnic identity, and disease.
The works in this exhibition feature scenes from the life of Christ,
culminating in his passion and death at Golgotha. According to the
Christian tradition, Christ was buried at Golgotha, which in Aramaic means
“the place of the skull.”
This special exhibition presents a spectrum of the Oregon-born Hall’s
twenty-five year career as a printmaker. It is the first solo exhibition of
Hall’s work since her death in 1957, the first time that more than sixty of
her prints have been gathered for exhibition, and likely the first time
prints by her have been exhibited in Oregon since 1930.
For Pacific Northwest artist Morris Graves, metamorphosis was a
spiritually rich symbol of growth and renewal. Drawing from the museum’s
permanent collection, this exhibition highlights two aspects of this
concept: regeneration and enlightenment.
This selection of Japanese woodblock prints was catalogued during a recent
print re-housing project undertaken by Faith Kreskey (MA, art history,
2012). The works include a variety of 19th century ukiyo-e (images of the
floating world) by artists of the Utagawa School, 20th century shinhanga
(so-called new prints) and sōsaku hanga (creative prints), and a few
recently acquired works.
Wan Koo and Young Ja Huh Wing and Jin Joo Gallery of Korean Art
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In summer 2014, the JSMA will install a small selection of 20th–21st
century Korean calligraphy, paintings, and ceramics, including recently
acquired porcelain vessels by KIM Yikyung (born 1935) and LEE Young-Ho
(born 1977).
