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The JSMA’s recent acquisition of Untitled by Raymond Saunders (American,
b. 1934) marked the first work by this esteemed Bay Area painter and
installation artist to enter the collection. Untitled combines many of the
visual and thematic elements Saunders has repeated throughout his long
artistic career.
On Earth: A Fragile Existence highlights works from the JSMA’s permanent collection that reflect a multi-layered understanding of humanity's role in our shared ecology with the non-human, or more-than-human, world.
This year marks the 14th annual NewArt Northwest Kids exhibition. This year’s theme, Brave Spaces, encouraged students to share their personal stories of bravery that help define who they are, and stories of bravery they saw or imagined. The works of art reveal the resilience of each student and the bravery they witness every day.
Featuring icons, manuscript pages, and other pre-modern Christian objects,
After Life: The Saints of Russian and Greek Orthodoxy explores the artistic
narrative of hagiography --- the stories of the lives of saints. Zoey
Kambour, 2021-22 post-graduate fellow in European & American art, curated
this selection of works from the JSMA’s icon collection.
Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos)'s Artist Project Space exhibition pearly gates
includes painting installation, video, and woven baskets, and thematically
considers access in terms of land, ancestry, resources, and human
relationships.
Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery
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On February 5, 2022, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art will open the
“Remember This: Hung Liu at Trillium” in the museum’s Barker and Soreng
galleries. In this exhibition, renowned contemporary Chinese-American
artist Hung Liu explored subjects ranging from portraits to landscapes to
still lifes and reflects upon history, memory, tradition, migration, and
social justice.
Rick Silva’s Western Fronts: Cascade Siskiyou, Gold Butte, Grand
Staircase-Escalante, and Bears Ears is an experimental video that reflects
the political and ecological threats that face four U.S. National
Monuments. The work combines aerial drone footage and photogrammetry with
3D animation to create a nature documentary that collapses into itself.
The title of Ron Jude’s most recent project references the limits of human perception—12 Hz marks the lowest threshold of human hearing, suggesting the powerful yet frequently imperceptible forces that shape the physical world, from plate tectonics to glacial erosion to the incomprehensibility of geological time.
The summer 2021 program was conducted almost completely virtually due
COVID-19. As a result, the interns had the opportunity to design their own
exhibition about their experience. In this show, you will see what the
students curated as part of their internship, including artifacts created
during the program and descriptions of their process written in their own
words.
The work on display is a sample of art created as part of the JSMA’s Art Heals program. The Art Heals program is a collaboration between the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, Good Samaritan Health Services, and Stahlbush Island Farms; the artwork on display is the result of our dynamic partnership working with patients and healthcare providers across the region.
Painter and printmaker Max Pollak (American, born Czechoslovakia, 1886-1970) was raised in Vienna and appointed official artist of the Austrian Army during World War I. his exhibition was made possible through the generosity of Michael C. Powanda and Elizabeth D. Moyer.
Aleph Earth is a groundbreaking collaboration between the UO’s Artificial Intelligence Creative Practice Research Group (AICP) and Grammy Award-nominated vocal quartet New York Polyphony that merges art, music, and technology.
Every year, the University of Oregon’s Common Reading program encourages
campus-wide engagement with a shared book and related resources. JSMA’s
corresponding Common Seeing expands this conversation through the visual.
This year’s Common Seeing brings works by nine contemporary Native artists
that speak to these issues and each’s experiences as individuals and
members of their communities.
In the fall of 2021, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles, Influence and Inspiration in Arts & Crafts Silver, focusing on the artistic work, career, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs.
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The Art of the News: Comics Journalism brings together a number of contemporary works for the first major retrospective of the genre. Comics journalism is a humanistic practice with special relevance to the University of Oregon. It was at UO that the founder of contemporary comics journalism, Joe Sacco, obtained his degree in journalism.
