There is always something happening in the School of Art + Design. Join us for guest lectures, conferences, and exhibitions. Most of these are free and open to the public. You can join our email list to receive the weekly Upcoming Events email and stay in the know about the latest happenings.
New work by Jordyn Morrell
An exploration of femininity and popular culture.
New work by Grave Levin, Jordyn Morrell, Madeline Olson, and Marcella Rosen
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.
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."
Saints and Spirits in Early Modern Europe juxtaposes images of distillation and related revelry with representations of saints and the sacred
Katherine Jenkins: Meadow Lines
October 24 – November 15, 2019
Reception: Thursday, October 24 from 5:00-7:00pm
Gallery Hours: Friday- Saturday 11:00am-4:00pm
Meadow Lines examines the connections between walking and drawing: the ways in which each delineates territory, modifies land and leaves traces. Jenkins practices walking as a form of drawing. She walks a landscape repeatedly, in various seasons and conditions, and records her movements via GPS. Upon returning to the studio Jenkins reconstructs the itinerary of each walk from its set of corresponding coordinates. Collected over time, the accretion of these digital threads form a mesh of overlapping lines and knots: a site plan of my movements through the landscape. This exhibition is made possible by the partnership of CFAR and the UO Slow Lab.
Katherine Jenkins is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at The Ohio State University and cofounder of the interdisciplinary design-research group, Present Practice. Her work expands the ways in which landscape architects engage with site and its material aesthetics. Her current project utilizes the inscription of walking as a design instrument for landscape architecture. Prior to joining OSU, Katherine taught in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University. She has an MLA from the University of Virginia and a BA in painting and printmaking from Yale University.
An exploration of femininity and popular culture.
New work by Grave Levin, Jordyn Morrell, Madeline Olson, and Marcella Rosen
Katherine Jenkins: Meadow Lines
October 24–November 15, 2019
Gallery Hours: Friday–Saturday, 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Meadow Lines examines the connections between walking and drawing: the ways in which each delineates territory, modifies land and leaves traces. Jenkins practices walking as a form of drawing. She walks a landscape repeatedly, in various seasons and conditions, and records her movements via GPS. Upon returning to the studio Jenkins reconstructs the itinerary of each walk from its set of corresponding coordinates. Collected over time, the accretion of these digital threads form a mesh of overlapping lines and knots: a site plan of my movements through the landscape. This exhibition is made possible by the partnership of CFAR and the UO Slow Lab.
Katherine Jenkins is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at The Ohio State University and cofounder of the interdisciplinary design-research group, Present Practice. Her work expands the ways in which landscape architects engage with site and its material aesthetics. Her current project utilizes the inscription of walking as a design instrument for landscape architecture. Prior to joining OSU, Katherine taught in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University. She has an MLA from the University of Virginia and a BA in painting and printmaking from Yale University.
5 Minutes Publications from 2018-19 and 2017-18 will be released. Please join us for this special event with guests including:
FISK founder and designer, Bijan Berahimi
Live interview with Jacob Riddle
Conversation with 5 Minutes editors past & present
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5 Minutes is a limited-run print publication of quick, informal conversations between graduate students and visitors to the Department of Art at the University of Oregon. The MFA program at UO prides itself on interdisciplinarity, and invites a wide range of artists representing some of the most innovative and influential work being done today to lecture on their work and ideas.
Conversations between students and visitors often cross-pollinate media and conceptual concerns, while raising questions relevant to artists at the beginning of their careers. Conversations are disseminated in print to engage the university-at-large and communities beyond Eugene, Oregon.
George and Matilda Fowler Lecture
Angela Washko: “Poking the Hive: Interventions in Unusual Media Environments”
Artist and activist Angela Washko will present several different strategies for performing, participating in and transforming online environments that are especially hostile toward women. She will introduce her long-term performative intervention “The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft” alongside several interventions, interviews, performances, written works and video games works she has created about the manosphere and online men’s seduction communities. She will additionally introduce her newest project Workhorse Queen, a documentary film about drag queen and former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Mrs. Kasha Davis and her life and career post-reality-television.
Angela Washko is an artist, writer and facilitator devoted to creating new forums for discussions of feminism in spaces frequently hostile toward it. Since 2012, Washko has operated The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft, an ongoing intervention inside the most popular online role-playing game of all time. Washko's most recent project, The Game: The Game,is a video game in which professional pick-up artists attempt to seduce the player using their coercive and often dangerous signature techniques sourced from their instructional books and video materials.A recent recipient of the Impact Award at Indiecade, a Franklin Furnace Performance Fund Grant, and a Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art at the Frontier Grant, Washko's practice has been highlighted in The New Yorker, Frieze Magazine, Time Magazine, The Guardian, ArtForum, The Los Angeles Times, Art in America, The New York Times and more. Her projects have been presented internationally at venues including Museum of the Moving Image, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Milan Design Triennale, the Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennial and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Angela Washko is an Assistant Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University.
This lecture is made possible by the George and Matilda Fowler Endowment Fund.
Connective Conversations | Inside Oregon Art- Curator and Critic Tours and Lectures
Julie Rodrigues Widholm: “Expanding the Canon: A Call for Curatorial Activism in 21st Century Museums
Julie Rodrigues Widholm is Director and Chief Curator of DePaul Art Museum where she leads the strategic and artistic vision to promote equity and interdisciplinary education in art museums. Prior to taking the helm at DPAM in September 2015, she was Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art. She has organized more than 100 solo and group exhibitions, including Julia Fish: bound by spectrum, Brendan Fernandes: The Living Mask, Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite, Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks, Doris Salcedo, Unbound: Contemporary Art after Frida Kahlo, Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, which have been presented at museums across the U.S. such as DePaul Art Museum, MCA Chicago, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, the Nasher Museum at Duke University, MIT List Visual Arts Center, among others. She grew up in Brazil, Mozambique, Portugal, Germany, and across the U.S.
This lecture is made possible by the Connective Conversations | Inside Oregon Art, Curator and Critic Tours and Lectures, a partnership between The Ford Family Foundation and the UO School of Art + Design, Department of Art.
The Suicide Prevention Team and the University Counseling Center (UCC) offers this workshop for faculty, staff, and GEs. Partcipant learning objectives are to:
1. Develop skills in identifying and responding to students who may have thoughts of suicide.
2. Develop skills in how to engage students in a conversation about your concern and ways to seek help.
3. Develop knowledge of campus and community resources and how to make an appropriate referral.
If a department would like to schedule a suicide prevention workshop, please submit a request form here.
The Faculty & Staff section of the UCC website includes several additional online resources for helping students in distress.
The Student Suicide Prevention Team also offers a peer-to-peer workshop for students. Request a student workshop here.
If you are thinking about suicide, call the UCC After-Hours Support and Crisis Line at 541-346-3227 or the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-TALK (8255) now. Or text 'OREGON' to 741-741.