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The University of Oregon College of Design's School of Art + Design is pleased to present the 2019 Spring Storm.
More than 100 graduating seniors in Art, Art & Technology, and Product Design will exhibit their work throughout Lawrence Hall for this 7th annual end-of-year show.
Opening reception: Monday, June 10 from 4:00–6:00 p.m.
On view through June 17, Monday–Friday from 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Free and open to all!
The JSMA and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History are open and admission is free. Congratulations, UO graduates! 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Sponsor: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Information: (541) 346-0942.
This three-channel video, South Africa’s entry in the 2017 Venice Biennale, meditates on slavery’s impact dismemberment of African identity. In Setswana, the experience of life is referred to as a “passage.” The Setswana word for life, botshelo, means “to cross over,” and people are bafeti (voyagers), a recognition that the experience of life is transient; it has a beginning and an end, as with any voyage.
In each of the artwork’s three projections, we are confronted with a character – a woman with a hawk perched on her arm, a young man in a Trilby hat, and a woman wrapped in a Basotho blanket. The arched shape of the boat frames each passenger with their heads pointed towards the prow; each travels with a single possession. As the passengers lie motionless on their backs looking up at the sky, they perform a series of actions that move between gestures of struggle and resignation. A pool of water slowly forms beneath their bodies. The rising water gradually floods the well of the boat, eventually leaving the passengers submerged while the boat slowly sinks and eventually disappears. The ebb and flow of water, as both life giving and deadly, symbolizes the many who have arrived or departed from South Africa in trade, as cargo or as transient bodies belonging to no particular state.
Dissolving the artificial boundary between human society and wild nature is the goal of this special exhibition, featuring work from two of the artist’s recent series, "Dreams Before Extinction" and "Under the Earth, Over the Moon."
Join us for the 2019 College of Design Commencement Ceremony on the Knight Library South Lawn (also known as Southwest Campus Green).
College of Design Commencement details are available on the College of Design website.
Focusing on clothing and other wearable attire, the exhibition serves as a platform for conversations that address diversity, equity, and inclusion. The exhibition is organized by a UO student curatorial team: Taite Stull, Cassidy Shaffer, and Kristen Clayton, who also served as creative project manager.
Saints and Spirits in Early Modern Europe juxtaposes images of distillation and related revelry with representations of saints and the sacred
As a follow-up to 2018’s popular collections exhibition A Decade of Collecting, JSMA’s curators present newly acquired works as well as recent and planned gifts in honor of Jill Hartz.
Lecture on Catalan-American artist Pierre Daura and the surrealist concept of “magic art” by Caroline Phillips, Daura Foundation/Margo Grant Walsh Curatorial Extern in European and American Art.
2 p.m., Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Sponsor: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Information: 541-346-0942.
Enjoy an afternoon of art, music, and food, celebrating Huerto de la Familia and its community partners Centro Latino Americano and Downtown Languages. Generous support for this project is provided by Art Bridges. 12 – 4 p.m., Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Sponsor: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Information: (541) 346-0942.
Join the five artists creating work during the 2019 Eugene Walls festival for an outdoor reception.
Sponsor: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Information: 541-346-0942.
Kubo and the Two Strings, produced by the Portland-based animation studio LAIKA, is an epic action-adventure set in a fantastical Japan. 8:30 p.m., Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Sponsor: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Information: (541) 346-0942.
Tom Cramer (American, b. 1960) is widely known for his intricate relief paintings, which celebrate the lushness of nature and the mysteries of the cosmos. This exhibition explores his parallel practice in drawing.
JSMA museum educators and the Regional Coordinator of the Alzheimer’s Association Oregon and Southern Washington share information about this of the JSMA and Alzheimer’s Association collaborative arts access program; exhibition tour follows. 2 p.m., Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Sponsor: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Information: (541) 346-0942.