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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.
Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery
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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.
Salvador Dalí remains a fabled central figure of the Surrealist movement,
which blossomed in Paris in the early 1930s as a collaborative vision
amongst painters and poets. 2019-21 curatorial extern Emily Shinn curated
this selection of works from Dalí’s series The Divine Comedy (1963) and The
Twelve Tribes of Israel (1972-73).
The work of Myrna Báez (Puerto Rican, 1931-2018) and Norma Vila Rivero
(Puerto Rican, born 1982) is a poetic meditation on the relationship
between figure and landscape in Puerto Rico, a place where identity and
nature are closely connected. Silkscreen and woodcut prints by Báez and new
photographs by Vila Rivero present dramatic vistas charged with presence,
absence, and memory.
This exhibition explores Meiji-period news and reportage in the context of
both its Japanese precursors and contemporaneous journalism in other print
media. Co-curated by Art History Professor Akiko Walley, East Asian
Languages and Literatures Professor Glynne Walley, and Chief Curator Anne
Rose Kitagawa.
Libby Wadsworth's practice spans multiple media, including letterpress
printmaking, painting, and photography, she teases open written language
with her thoughtfully composed visual arrangements. Always InFormation
presents new work created almost entirely during the COVID-19 pandemic that
demonstrates Wadsworth’s evolving interest in blurring the distinctions
between text and images.
In July the museum will open a major group exhibition in the Harold and
Arlene Schnitzer Gallery featuring works by artists who received the JSMA
Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Program awards. Encompassing drawing,
painting, video, performance, photography, installations, sculpture, and
digital works.
I Am More Than Who You See was created by Lisa Abia-Smith, director of
education and senior faculty Instructor for PPPM, and is inspired Cephas
Williams's 56 Black Men campaign. These museum education programs and
exhibitions center around a series of annual workshops held for UO students
focusing on identity and misrepresentation.
The exhibition consists of a selection of photographs which are part of an
international campaign, 56 Black Men, based out of the UK and conceived and
curated by speaker, entrepreneur, and photographer Cephas Williams. He
launched the 56 Black Men campaign in the UK to change the narrative
regarding the representation of Black men in the media.
