Lasting Legacies: The First 75 Years
January 24 through April 12, 2009
FREE Preview Reception: Friday, January 23, 2009
On graduation Saturday, 1933, the JSMA – then known as the University of Oregon Museum of Art – was officially dedicated, its entire collection having been donated by the museum’s founding director, Gertrude Bass Warner. Over the course of the following seventy-five years, the collection has grown significantly, with important gifts from (and in honor of) Wallace Baldinger, Virginia Haseltine, Robert Shiomi, and David McCosh, to name but a very few; moreover, as the JSMA moves towards its centennial year, other generous donors are stepping forward to insure the collection’s vigorous growth. JSMA will mark this important anniversary with a special exhibition, publication and array of programs that will highlight the individuals who helped form the core of the collection in the past and celebrate the new generation of supporters who are shaping the collection for the future.
George Tice: Paterson
February 17 - April 5, 2009
Approaching 70, George Tice has chronicled his native New Jersey with classic photographs for more than five decades. His photographs were first exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1953. This exhibition focuses on Tice’s passionate exploration of Paterson, a city that has inspired artists and writers throughout its history. Sponsored in part by Photography@Oregon.
Binh Danh: New Work
April 11 - June 28, 2009
Binh Danh is a young Vietnamese-American artist who has developed a unique process involving chlorophyll for transferring photographic images onto leaves and other plant materials. This exhibition includes family portraits using this innovative process and new, large-format photographs of ancient sites in Cambodia.
MFA 2009 Exhibition
May 2 through June 14, 2009
FREE Preview Reception: Friday, May 1, 2009
The annual Master of Fine Arts (MFA) graduate exhibition is the culminating event, constituting the equivalent of a master’s thesis, for art students who have completed the graduate program and are candidates of the Master of Fine Arts degree. The exhibition is jointly presented by the Department of Art, UO School of Architecture and Allied Arts and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
On the Road: Tokaido
June 25 - September 13, 2009
Remarkable complete sets of the Tokaido series by Edo-period printmaker Ando Hiroshige and modern artist Junichiro Sekino comprise this fascinating exploration of Japan’s past and present. These prints are from the JSMA’s extensive collection of Japanese prints.
Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World
Summer 2009
Carved by Korean folk artists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these tiny, brightly painted sculptures of clowns, tigers and acrobats—known as kkoktu—have been used in Korea for centuries to decorate coffins. Costumed and posed to reflect the realities of rural Korean village life of the past, individual kkoktus are a window on a period that has left few written records. They’re also a window onto a timeless, characteristically Korean attitude towards death. Though the kkoktus’ gaiety seems incongruous with mourning, they express their culture’s deep desire that the dead enter the next world surrounded by joy-and its appreciation of the fleeting nature of all experience. Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World is organized by the Korea Society in collaboration with the Ockrang Cultural Foundation.