James Lavadour Exhibition Preview & VIP Faculty Workshop

We invite faculty to brainstorm with colleagues and museum staff to develop ideas and questions for student engagement and class curricula. Curator Danielle Knapp will share James Lavadour: Land of Origin, a nationally touring exhibition originated by the JSMA. It features over thirty paintings and prints from various private and public collections and the artist’s studio. Based in Pendleton, Oregon, Lavadour (Walla Walla) makes work that expresses the land and sky of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla homelands. Themes relevant to the exhibition include painting, abstraction, and the representation of the natural world; art and spirituality; colonization and decolonization; environmental issues; Oregon geology; Indigenous land rights and language revitalization; and how poetry and music inform the visual arts.

Attendees will also be the first to view the JSMA’s new Lavadour acquisition, Untitled grid (c. 2000), which will be available for future class visits in the Collections Lab.

Coffee and pastries will be provided. Please RSVP by Friday, September 12.