Past Exhibitions

Fit to Print The Dawn of Journalism in Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Lavenberg and Michels Collections

Fay Boyer Preble and Virginia Cooke Murphy Wing

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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.

Includes:
  • Virtual Tour
A mixed-media artwork featuring the text "NOTHING SOLID IS ITS SOLID SELF" with dripping paint and three-dimensional lemons, creating a visually complex and textured piece.

Libby Wadsworth Always InFormation

Artist Project Space

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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.

Includes:
  • Exhibition Catalogue
Three photographs in a diagonal line starting in the top left corner. A head shot of a medium-dark skinned person with teal chin-length braids wearing a white Nike tank top. A person from shoulders to waist wearing a black top with neon yellow wrists with an “MFA Boston” tote bag over their shoulder. A pair of legs in black jeans from the knees down, wearing black, white, and green Nike sneakers.

I Am More Than Who You See

Education Corridor

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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.

A black and white logo featuring a silhouette of a man with the text '56 Black Men' written alongside.

56 Black Men

Education Corridor

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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.

Abstract image of a yellow polyhedral shape on a black background

Northwest Ambience Frank Okada from the Permanent Collection

Focus Gallery

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Frank Okada described his paintings as “dedicatory objects,” which expressed gesture, memory, and sensation. In Northwest Ambience, a selection of paintings by Okada from the JSMA’s collection will be exhibited with two portraits of the artist by Seattle photographer Mary Randlett (American, 1924-2019).

An abstract painting of a table with a checkered tablecloth, surrounded by swirling, smoky shapes and two fish-like figures.

Morris Graves On the Surface

Morris Graves Gallery

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Morris Graves’s still life paintings and studies of objects engaged his interests in furniture design, domestic spaces, symbolism, and transcendental consciousness. On the Surface is drawn primarily from the JSMA’s Graves at Oregon collection and includes two photographs of the artist and his home by Mary Randlett (American, 1924-2019).

Data visualization image with clusters of small colored dots and lines, creating a symmetrical, intricate pattern.

Creativity Counts Possibilities Shaped by Constraints of Arithmetic

Artist Project Space

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E. E. Eischen, a UO Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, developed a new undergraduate course offered spring term 2020—Math and the creative process: A participatory exploration of number theory. In addition to the students’ final projects printed on metal, acrylic, and paper, the exhibition features works made by members of UO’s Department of Mathematics.

Includes:
  • Read
White brick fire place and chimney in the snow with barren trees in the background in front of a vibrant red, orange, and yellow sunrise or sunset

NewArt Northwest Kids

Education Corridor

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For the past thirteen years, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art has organized and presented NewArt Northwest Kids, an annual K–12 juried student exhibition. This year’s theme, Art, Hope and Resilience, encouraged students to share their own stories from 2020 through words and images.

Light colored angular houses with red windows and orange roofs under a looming castle in front of a rainbow checkered sky

Pierre Daura’s Enchanted Universe

A. Dean & Lucile I. McKenzie Gallery

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Drawn from the permanent collections of the JSMA and Knight Law Center, this exhibition explores the paintings of Catalan-American artist Pierre Daura through his answers to a survey conducted in 1953 by Surrealist poet and founder, André Breton, about the connection between art and magic.

Includes:
  • Gallery Guide
A colorful, symmetrical artwork with geometric shapes, including circles and triangles, in vibrant colors.

Metamorphosis Visualizing the Music of Paul Hindemith

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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The JSMA and Eugene Symphony Association celebrate an innovative collaboration with four Oregon visual artists in response to Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)’s orchestral masterpiece Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Weber. Mika Aono, Anna Fidler, Andrew Myers, and Julia Oldham created new works in printmaking, painting, drawing, and animation inspired by Hindemith’s most popular work.

Includes:
  • Listen
A black and white drawing of three figures standing in a semi-circular arrangement. The central figure wears a white garment and holds a palm branch, while the two other figures hold staffs. The background includes a palm tree and abstract patterns.

Nkame A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is pleased to host Nkame, a solo exhibition dedicated to the work of the late Cuban printmaker Belkis Ayón (1967-1999). During her short but fertile career, she produced an extraordinary body of work central to the history of contemporary printmaking in Cuba and abroad.

Includes:
  • Virtual Tour
Photograph of black tubing with pink utility line markers in grass in front of a forest

Steve Rowell Uncanny Sensing, Remote Valleys

Artist Project Space

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Steve Rowell investigates ecology and post-natural landscapes in his multicomponent installation Uncanny Sensing, Remote Valleys (2013-20). The project’s title combines “remote sensing” (a method of data collection from the physical world via sensors and other remote technology) and “uncanny valley” (the cognitive dissonance caused by lifelike replicas of living things)

Includes:
  • Video
Painting of a female basketball player on an abstract background with the number 20 on a black jersey

Art of the Athlete All Stars

Education Corridor

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For the past 8 years, the Art of the Athlete (AofA) program has been an education program for UO student-athletes as part of the museum’s broad outreach program which engages diverse student groups from across campus. This year, we asked 6 former and current AofA participants to jury artwork made the past 8 years as part of the program.

Round ceramic vase with short narrow neck and slightly flared lip with pale green glaze

Korean Ceramic Culture Legacy of Earth and Fire

Wan Koo and Young Ja Huh Wing and Jin Joo Gallery of Korean Art

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As a teaching museum, the JSMA is dedicated to helping students develop meaningful, life-long connections with art. In addition to regular museum visits and classes, we periodically receive grants that allow us to host scholars with a deeper research focus. In Fall 2019, Bokyoung Hong, a specialist in Korean ceramics, came to the JSMA for a 10-month Korea Foundation Global Challengers internship.