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JSMA’s eighth annual Common Seeing exhibition is presented in partnership with the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) as part of the campus-wide, year-long “Feminist Futures” programming in honor of the CSWS’s 50th anniversary. My Body, My Choice? considers bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, and gendered and racialized experiences in healthcare through the works of three , contemporary artists. Nao Bustamante, Judy Chicago, and Alison Saar address these issues of sexual and reproductive health in wide-ranging bodies of work spanning forty years. They draw our attention to complicated and problematic histories to advocate for a more equitable future. Chicago stated in a 2019 interview about her Birth Project, “I do not think art can change the world. I think art can , educate, inspire, [and] empower people to act.”
In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society, the exhibition “Woman was the Sun” celebrates Japanese women through paintings, calligraphy, prints, sculpture, and decorative art from the permanent collection. The artists represented range from 19th-century Buddhist poet, calligrapher, and ceramicist Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875) through cutting-edge contemporary artists Kusama Yayoi (born 1929) and Aoshima Chiho (born 1974), and include calligrapher Shinoda Tōkō (1913-2021), printmakers Minami Keiko (1911-2004), Iwami Reika (1927-2020), Oda Mayumi (born 1941), Betty Nobue Kano (born 1944), and Ozeki Ritsuko (born 1971), and prints by three generations of Yoshida artists: grandmother Yoshida Fujio (1887-1987), mother Yoshida C, hizuko (1924- 2017), and daughter Yoshida Ayomi (born 1958). The installation also features female subjects such as religious and literary figures, warriors, heroines, villains, and demons, along with a selection of Japanese artworks intended for curricular use.
Glenn Ligon: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family
Foundation brings together works on paper by the influential artist that
explore how constructions of Blackness in the United States infuse popular
culture, literature, and history.
Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery
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Strange Weather features contemporary art works which illuminate and reframe the boundaries of bodies and the environment. The artworks included in the exhibition span five decades, from 1970-2020, and are drawn together for how they creatively call attention to the impact and history of forced migrations, industrialization, global capitalism, and trauma on humans and the contemporary landscape.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the University of Oregon’s
Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS), the museum has organized a
special exhibition entitled Half the Sky: Women in Chinese Art, referencing
by Chairman Mao Zedong’s 1968 quotation “Women hold up half the sky,”
meaning that they are the equal of men. The varied works on display attest
to the remarkable resilience and , creativity of women despite their
relatively low status in traditional Chinese society due to Confucian and
Buddhist value systems that deemed them to be inferior.
Julien’s immersive 10-screen film installation collapses time and space, alternating between contemplative, poetic sequences reflecting Douglass’s long life and travels, and moments of passionate political oratory.
Each year, the JSMA’s Art Heals program serves diverse audiences both locally on campus and throughout Oregon. The current exhibition on view in the Education Corridor Galleries includes a sample of over 30 works of art created both in-person and remotely during Art Heals sessions over the 2022-23 academic year.
Academic Year 2023-24 marks the 50th anniversary of the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) at the University of Oregon. JSMA joins our colleagues in the campus-wide celebration of CSWS’s history of intersectional feminist research including; considerations of gender, race, class, ability, and sexual orientation; and a commitment to social justice and gender equality.
Wan Koo and Young Ja Huh Wing and Jin Joo Gallery of Korean Art
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Capital and Countryside in Korea will investigate the representation of
urban and rural spaces in Korean art. Touching upon themes of memory and
nostalgia, cultural heritage, written language, production and industry,
and the significance of specific locales, this exhibition examines how
these spaces have impacted the histories, cultures, and identities of
people throughout the Korean Peninsula.
The University of Oregon MFA Art Exhibition 2023 culminates three years of independent research and experimentation by a cohort of five artists whose various practices engage a broad range of inquiry.
Drawing on the JSMA’s Margo Grant Walsh Twentieth Century Silver and Metalwork Collection and a select number of private and museum loans, the exhibition will present a range of hand-wrought copper works by many of the premier metalsmiths working in late 19th and early 20th century Britain, the United States, and beyond.
An Unfinished Journey: Embodying the Feminist City speaks of an enduring
endeavor to attain and maintain women’s rights. Through mixed media
artworks by Sandra C. Fernández (b. 1964 New York), Tania Candiani (b. 1974
Mexico City), and Lilliam Nieves (b. 1975 Puerto Rico) the exhibition asks
how bodies can claim a sense of belonging and agency, how they can act
against systems of oppression that de, value humans and different forms of
seeing and being in our communities. How does urban design—architecture,
zoning laws, and infrastructure—sustain or dismantle hegemonic power
structures? And how can the city, as a space of relationality, and its
inhabitants, exhort and advance social justice, as individuals continue to
strive for their rights?
The University of Oregon’s annual 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 arts., During the 2022-23 academic year, the UO continues its reflection on Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Milkweed Editions, 2013) by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
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Presented in the Barker Gallery, Framing the Revolution will be the first major exhibition of the Wadsworths’ Chinese Collection. It features more than 50 politically-charged works by seven artists, ranging in date from 1958 to 2006., Together, they reflect upon modern Chinese history, examining events such as the Long March, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and its aftermath, and moments of tremendous social upheaval and change. Artists included are WANG Shilong, LIU Heung Shing, XIAO Lu, SHENG Qi, SHAO Yinong & MUCHEN, and QIN Ga.
