Art and Culture Weekend
Congratulations, graduates! The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History are open and admission is free.
Congratulations, graduates! The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History are open and admission is free.
The Garden is a charitable partnership organized by the UO Cultural Forum, Cornerstone Tailgates and Events, Hop Valley Brewing and Sheild Catering to benefit the Jordan Schnitzer Art Museum, on the University of Oregon campus.
The Garden will serve beer and wine from 12:00 pm - 10:00 pm. Hop Valley Brewing has generously donated product for purchase. This year we are permitted to serve 900 glasses of beer or wine. A count down board will be posted. Once we a have served 900 glasses we will stop beer and wine service, food service will continue.
Note: This program takes place at 182 Lillis
The Latin American Studies Program presents: Bartolomé de las Casas Annual Lecture featuring photographer Gustavo Germano. A Photographic Memory: Seeing the Disappeared. Gustavo Germano’s lecture examines the use of photographs of the disappeared to reclaim truth and justice in the aftermath of the military dictatorships in Argentina (1976–1983) and Brazil (1964–1985).
In celebration of the deposit of the James Blue Archive at UO Special Collections, Cinema Pacific presents a rare find: Blue’s 40-minute 8 mm parody of Hamlet, with a cast and crew of UO Drama students and friends, filmed in 1951-52. Blue’s Hamlet was a huge sensation when it screened to an audience of more than 2,000 in the UO Student Union ballroom. Also on the program is a new documentary produced by Daniel Miller and Krysta Maksim titled Making the Invisible Visible: The Life and Art of James Blue. It is cosponsored with the James and Richard Blue Foundation.
Student Presentations will last twenty minutes each, and will be followed by a ten minute question and answer period. Presenters listed in order of appearance.
Morning Session Welcome 10 am
Caroline Parry and Mackenzie Karp, symposium co-chairs
Symposium Schedule:
Thursday, April 23
Reception at the Ford Lecture Hall, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 4:30-5:30pm
Keynote, 6:00-7:00 pm
Bio for Keynote, Sonal Khullar
“Sonal Khullar is Assistant Professor of South Asian art at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Her research and teaching focus on global histories of modern and contemporary art, feminist
The wuxia genre had attracted great interest and investment in China when Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) became an international box-office hit and won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This presentation will look at how wuxia films made after 2000 navigate the demands of commercial entertainment and the promotion of Chinese culture and nationalism. Dr.
Rhône Valley Wine Tasting at Marché Museum Café includes two splashes of wine and carefully paired bites for $8.
Note: This workshop takes place at Lane Community College Art and Applied Design Department,