Visiting Artist Lectures
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9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
University of Oregon Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research
Edie Fake is a painter and visual artist whose work examines issues of trans identity and “queer space” through the lens of architecture and ornamentation. Fake’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo shows at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY and Marlborough Contemporary, NYC, and in group exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC and the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU in Richmond, VA. His collection of comics, Gaylord Phoenix, won the 2011 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel. Fake’s latest projects include mural installations for The Drawing Center, NYC and BAMPFA in Berkeley, CA. He is currently represented by Western Exhibitions in Chicago and Broadway Gallery in New York
This lecture is made possible by the Davis Family Endowed Fund in Art.
Lectures are also livestreamed and archived on YouTube.
5:00–6:00 p.m.
1:00–2:00 p.m.
Learn about Studio Art in Athens, a three-week summer study abroad program, from the faculty leading the program.
Through a series of lectures, fieldwork, daily excursions to archaeological sites and museums, contemporary galleries and engagement with land and sea, students will have the opportunity to weave their experience of place and consideration of history and art into the practice of making art.
Visit the program website: geo.uoregon.edu/studio-art-athens
9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
10:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
All students in the School of Art + Design are invited and encouraged to register now for Career Futures!
The School of Art + Design annual Career Futures event connects students with professionals who represent career paths in arts, art & technology, and product design. Professionals share their career-path stories, their experiences in their fields/industries, and their advice for students, and respond to questions from the discussion moderators.
2023 Career Futures will be held in-person in Lawrence Hall as part of the College of Design Career Week and the schedule is as follows:
10:00 – 11:30 am, Product Design Panel Discussion
12:00 – 1:30 pm, Art Panel Discussion
2:00 – 3:30 pm, Art & Technology Panel Discussion
A limited number of one-on-one portfolio review and “Ask me anything” sessions for students with panelists will follow each panel for one hour: 11:30am- 12:30pm for Product Design, 1:30-2:30pm for Art, 3:30-4:30pm for Art & Technology. These creative-work review meetings will be held in 20-minute time slots and will be filled on a first come/first served basis. Participating professionals' bios are posted online with ongoing updates.
Student Services is also hosting pre-Career Week Workshops to help students prepare this event.
4:00 p.m.
University of Oregon Spring 2022 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research
This talk focuses on the solo exhibition of the costume designer and performer, Machine Dazzle, and the relation of his work to creative spheres cutting across art, craft, design, theatre, and nightlife. Elissa Auther is the Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). She provides the strategic direction and creative oversight for exhibitions, acquisitions of works of art for the Museum’s collection, publications, and exhibition-related public programming. She has published widely on a diverse set of topics, including the history of modernism and its relationship to craft and the decorative, the material culture of the American counterculture, and feminist art. Her book “String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art” focuses on the broad utilization of fiber in art of the 1960s and 1970s and the changing hierarchical relationship between art and craft expressed by the medium’s new visibility. Her most recent exhibitions for the Museum of Arts and Design include “Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro” and “Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle.”
Lectures are also live streamed and archived on YouTube.
4:00 p.m.
University of Oregon Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research
Salvador Jiménez-Flores is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Jalisco, México. He explores the politics of identity and the state of double consciousness. Jiménez-Flores addresses issues of colonization, migration, “the other,” and futurism by producing a mixture of socially conscious installation, public, and studio-based art. His work spans from community-based work, drawing, ceramics, prints, and mixed media sculpture. Jiménez-Flores has presented his work at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and Museum of Art and Design amongst others. He served as Artist-In-Residence for the city of Boston, Harvard Ceramics Program, Office of the Arts at Harvard University, and Kohler Arts Industry. Jiménez-Flores is a recipient of Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grants and The New England Foundation for the Arts, Threewalls’ RaD Lab+Outside the Walls Fellowship Grant, and he is a 2021 United States Artist Fellow. He is an Assistant Professor in ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Lectures are also live streamed and archived on YouTube.
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