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In the fall of 2021, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles, Influence and Inspiration in Arts & Crafts Silver, focusing on the artistic work, career, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs.
Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery
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The Art of the News: Comics Journalism brings together a number of contemporary works for the first major retrospective of the genre. Comics journalism is a humanistic practice with special relevance to the University of Oregon. It was at UO that the founder of contemporary comics journalism, Joe Sacco, obtained his degree in journalism.
Salvador Dalí remains a fabled central figure of the Surrealist movement,
which blossomed in Paris in the early 1930s as a collaborative vision
amongst painters and poets. 2019-21 curatorial extern Emily Shinn curated
this selection of works from Dalí’s series The Divine Comedy (1963) and The
Twelve Tribes of Israel (1972-73).
The work of Myrna Báez (Puerto Rican, 1931-2018) and Norma Vila Rivero
(Puerto Rican, born 1982) is a poetic meditation on the relationship
between figure and landscape in Puerto Rico, a place where identity and
nature are closely connected. Silkscreen and woodcut prints by Báez and new
photographs by Vila Rivero present dramatic vistas charged with presence,
absence, and memory.
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.
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.
In July the museum will open a major group exhibition in the Harold and
Arlene Schnitzer Gallery featuring works by artists who received the JSMA
Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Program awards. Encompassing drawing,
painting, video, performance, photography, installations, sculpture, and
digital works.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
