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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.
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?
Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery
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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.
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.
Lonnie Graham is a photographer, installation artist, and cultural
activist investigating methods by which the arts may be used to achieve
tangible meaning in people’s lives., A Conversation with the World
comprises work done in Africa, Asia, the Pacific Rim, Europe, and the
Americas. Graham meets individuals and, through mutual trust, makes a
portrait and records a conversation. Regardless of age, gender or
nationality, all were asked the same eight questions pertaining to origins,
family, life, death, values, tradition, and thoughts on Western Culture.
This is the first JSMA exhibition celebrating the extremely generous donations of 520+ Meiji prints from the Lavenberg Collection and the first group of over 150 Japanese prints from the Michels Collection. Together, these magnanimous gifts have transformed the JSMA into a major resource for the study of Meiji graphic arts.
Wan Koo and Young Ja Huh Wing and Jin Joo Gallery of Korean Art
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The JSMA owns a remarkable Korean painting of the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha
and the Ten Kings of Hell that was donated by museum-founder Gertrude Bass
Warner (1863-1951). A bodhisattva is a compassionate Buddhist deity that
postpones its own enlightenment to assist others along the same spiritual
path, and Ksitigarbha—who is always depicted with the shaven head, robes,
and staff of a Buddhist monk—i
This year’s Art of the Athlete (AofA) exhibition highlights 4 alumni of the AofA program and their contributions as they returned to share their time and talents to work on the museum’s education programs with UO students, youth in our World of Work program, and outreach programs for children identified as at risk and enduring trauma.
This year's project, Hear My Voice, was led and curated by UO art students Kayla Lockwood (2022, ATCH BFA) and Sam Berry (2023, Product Design) and Malik Lovette (2024, M.Arch). The exhibition documents multiple community conversations with UO students, primarily students of color, and documents their experiences surrounding stereotyping.
The exhibition highlights an impressive grouping of photographs by Watts
gifted to the JSMA that includes portraits of artists, activists, authors,
and musicians along with his sourcing of important historical publications
acquired from archival holdings of African American cultural institutions.
The JSMA’s recent acquisition of Untitled by Raymond Saunders (American,
b. 1934) marked the first work by this esteemed Bay Area painter and
installation artist to enter the collection. Untitled combines many of the
visual and thematic elements Saunders has repeated throughout his long
artistic career.
On Earth: A Fragile Existence highlights works from the JSMA’s permanent collection that reflect a multi-layered understanding of humanity's role in our shared ecology with the non-human, or more-than-human, world.
This year marks the 14th annual NewArt Northwest Kids exhibition. This year’s theme, Brave Spaces, encouraged students to share their personal stories of bravery that help define who they are, and stories of bravery they saw or imagined. The works of art reveal the resilience of each student and the bravery they witness every day.
