Past Exhibitions

Exploring Identity and Representation

France

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In June during UO Zero week, twelve university students studied abroad in
a Global Education Oregon (GEO) program designed and led by Director of
Education Lisa AbiaSmith at the site of her own study abroad university
thirty years ago in Aix-en-Provence.

Art of the Athlete

Art and Social Practice

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How do artists reflect and respond to social issues and advocate for
equality, awareness, and change? Those questions inspired 36 UO students
and student athletes from our Art of the Athlete program to create
self-portraits this summer as part of a series of workshops.

Resistance as Power

A Curatorial Response to "Under the Feet of Jesus"

Focus Gallery

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The JSMA’s fourth “Common Seeing” exhibition supports the UO’s 2019-20
“Common Reading” of Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes. In
the book, the resilient protagonist, 13-year-old Estrella, works in the hot
California grape fields while navigating the realities of first love,
financial struggle, family separation, and illness.

Kwang Young Chun Aggregations

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

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South Korean artist Kwang Young CHUN combines hundreds of paper-wrapped parcels to create sculptural compositions, called Aggregations, which look like crystal formations, asteroids, or the surface of the moon.

Includes resources

What’s New

Curatorial Conversations

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As a follow-up to 2018’s popular collections exhibition A Decade of
Collecting, JSMA’s curators present newly acquired works as well as recent
and planned gifts in honor of Jill Hartz.

Philip Haas

Sculpture Breathes Life into Painting & Music

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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The JSMA is excited to present the world-premiere of noted artist Philip
Haas’s new work, before it embarks on a year-long tour in the U.S. and
abroad. The two-week performance installation incorporates motorized
sculpture, construction, totems, altered found objects, film, fetishized
costume, movement, sound, spoken word, and music.

Common Thread

Reflections on Aesthetic Culture

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Focusing on clothing and other wearable attire, the exhibition serves as a
platform for conversations that address diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The exhibition is organized by a UO student curatorial team: Taite Stull,
Cassidy Shaffer, and Kristen Clayton, who also served as creative project
manager.

Art Heals

Reflections and Connections

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This special exhibition showcases artwork made in the Alzheimer’s arts
access program, hosted by the JSMA in collaboration with the Alzheimer’s
Association Oregon & Southwest Washington Chapter. Reflections and
Connections is a free workshop series for individuals living with early
stages of Alzheimer’s Disease and their care partners.

Mohau Modisakeng

Passage

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This three-channel video, South Africa’s entry in the 2017 Venice
Biennale, meditates on slavery’s impact dismemberment of African identity.

NewArt Northwest Kids

Protecting the Northwest’s Natural Beauty

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The annual NewArt Northwest Kids exhibition returns to the JSMA for its
twelfth year. This year’s theme, Protecting the Northwest’s Natural Beauty,
examines the roles people have in caring for the environment and
recognizing the collective responsibility to preserve the quality and
safekeeping of the land, air, water, plants, and animals.

Qosqo, entre el pasado y el presente

Photography in Cusco 1895-1945

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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Qosqo, entre el pasado y el presente: Photography in Cusco 1895-1945, is a
portrait of a city and a culture at the dawn of the modern era, drawn from
the work of nine photographers who lived in the Cusco region. Subjects
range from Inca sites to romanticized evocations of Peru’s indigenous past.