SPRING/SUMMER 2015 JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM OF ART Patron Circle Reception Things You Know But Thursday, April 16, Cannot Explain: 5:30–7:30 p.m. A Symposium Saturday, May 30 RICK BARTOW Public Ceremony Morning Session Friday, April 17, 5:30 p.m. Art & Healing, UO Memorial Quad outside 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Things You Know But Cannot Explain April 18 – August 9, 2015 JSMA Panel discussion with Dr. Opening Reception Patricia Dewey Lambert, Friday, April 17, 6–8 p.m. Program Director, UO Arts and Administration Program, Featuring Rick Bartow and the Rick Bartow is one of Oregon’s best-known artists. Over forty years, he has and Coordinator, Arts in Backseat Drivers band created a powerful body of work, influenced by his Native American heritage, Healthcare Management Con- centration; Sara McDonough, life experiences, physical environment, international travels, and fine art For more event details: LMFT and ATR-BC; Eliza training. In 2012, two of his monumental sculptures were permanently installed jsma.uoregon.edu/ Murphy, writer and healthcare bartowevents professional; and David Reese, on the Mall, outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American graduate student in Philoso- Land, Law, and Liberty: Indian in Washington, D.C. phy and Women’s and Gender Legal Perspectives on Studies, UO. Moderated by Co-curated by Executive Director Jill Hartz and McCosh Associate Curator Tribal Rights Lisa Abia-Smith, Director of Thursday, April 16, Education, JSMA. Danielle Knapp, Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain features 12:30–1:30 p.m. Afternoon Session drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture, and mixed media work. In addition Knight Law School, Room 141 Art & (Dis)Place, 2–4 p.m. to showing the artist’s most recent work, the exhibition and catalog explore With Howard Arnett, adjunct Panel discussion with Dr. Amy key themes in the artist’s oeuvre: “Gesture,” “Self,” “Dialogue,” “Tradition,” and professor and attorney; Lonetree, Associate Professor, Jason Younker, Assistant Department of History, “Transformation.” This is the first major exhibition to feature such diverse Vice President and Advisor University of , Santa Cruz; Patsy Phillips, Director, examples of his work, including many of Bartow’s graphite drawings from the to the President, UO; and Congresswoman Elizabeth Museum of Contemporary late 1970s and large-scale wood and mixed media constructions. Furse, former member of the Native Arts, a center of the Institute of American Indian The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog with essays by U.S. House of Representatives; moderated by Dom Vetri, Arts. Moderated by exhibition the curators and Lawrence Fong, former curator of American and regional art at professor emeritus, UO co-curator Danielle Knapp. the JSMA. It will travel to other museums following its showing here, including Artists Panel: A Conversation with Rick Bartow and Barry Lopez the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe; The Heard Museum, A Tribute to Rick Bartow Saturday, April 18, 11 a.m. Saturday, July 18, 2 p.m. Phoenix; Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman; and The Autry With Seiichi Hiroshima, Frank National Center, Los Angeles. LaPena, James Lavadour, and ; moderated by Dr. Related Events Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain is made possible by the Rebecca Dobkins, Professor First Friday Art Talk Coeta and Donald Barker Special Exhibitions Endowment, Arlene Schnitzer, of Anthropology and Curator April 3, 5:30 p.m., The of Native American Art, Hallie Studio at the Hult Center The Ford Family Foundation of the Oregon Community Foundation, the Ford Museum of Art, Willa- Co-sponsored by the JSMA, mette University Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission Lane Arts Council presents A Conversation with a talk with Rick Bartow, his and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ballinger Endowment, Philip and Rick Bartow Portland gallerist Charles Top: Frog in Orange Britches, 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 in. Courtesy of the artist and Sandra Piele, and JSMA members. Saturday, April 18, 2 p.m. Froelick and Bob Keefer. Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR With exhibition co-curator Rick Bartow: Prints Danielle Knapp and Lawrence Schrager Clarke Gallery Left: Saki Nepui, 1998. Ink, graphite on Fong, former curator of Top: Self, 1984. Pastel, April 1–May 16 handmade paper, 72 x 26 in. Collection of American and regional art at Reception, Friday, April 3, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art graphite on paper, 22 1/2 x the JSMA 18 inches. Courtesy of the 5:30–7 p.m. Deer Spirit for Frank LaPena, 1999. Acrylic on artist and Froelick Gallery, Family Day: panel, 24 x 24 in. Private Collection. Storytelling through Art Dynamic Collaborations, Portland, OR a Printmaking Workshop: Saturday, May 16, 12–3 p.m. Far left: Bear with Humor Drypoint, Chine Colle, Monotype (For Walt Come a Sunday), Collecting Bartow 2004. Wood with pigment, With Rick Bartow & Seiichi Wednesday, May 20, Hiroshima Catalog Available! metal, 30 x 17 x 13 inches. 5:30 p.m. Accompanying the exhibition Collection of Arlene and April 25–26, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. With gallerist Charles Froelick, is a fully illustrated catalog Harold Schnitzer LCC Building 10, Room 223 collector Bill Avery, and Susan of the same name. The Kennedy Zeller, Associate $200 ($60 LCC/UO students) Little Hawk’s Spirit, 2013. publication was made Curator, Native American Art, For more information, Watercolor and acrylic on possible thanks to the early Brooklyn Museum.; moderat- contact Mary Jo Kreindel, panel, 12 x 12 inches. Private ed by Danielle Knapp [email protected], generous support of The Ford collection 541.463.5411 Family Foundation of the Oregon Community Art and Healing Workshop Foundation, Arlene Schnitzer, Philip and Sandra 47th Annual UO Mother’s Saturday, May 30, 1–3 p.m. Piele, the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer CARE Day Powwow at Mac Court See page 12 Foundation, and the Oregon Arts Commission May 8–10 and the National Endowment for the Arts. Free admission at museum Members receive 10% off the $35 cover price. this weekend [ 2 ] [ 3 ] FROM THE DIRECTOR Amanda Marie and X-O Frozen Film Frames The Many Places We Are Portraits of Filmmakers by Jonas Mekas Being a museum director Artist Project Space | April 1–June 7 is a deeply rewarding— Schnitzer Gallery | May 9–August 9 and often challenging— This two-artist exhibition explores the concept of emotional travel. When we Jonas Mekas is considered by many to be the “godfather of American avant- occupation. Most of travel, especially when we travel in intimate proximity to our travel partners, not garde film.” He is revered for his experimental diary films, his founding of the time, I don’t have only do we move through physical space, but we move through emotional place. the New York film institutions Filmmakers Cooperative and Anthology Film time to curate a major During extensive travel, emotional bonds develop that are nearly guaranteed Archives, and his passionate promotion of avant-garde cinema when he was a show, let alone focus to make intense and complex waves in the lives of those with whom we travel. film critic for The Village Voice. At 92 years old, he has, in recent years, started on art, but this spring A visual representation of this deep idea is explored by both artists, who have a new career as a gallery artist, exhibiting photographic blowups of adjoining is different. Danielle indeed traveled extensively together. Amanda Marie’s signature visual language, frames from his 16mm film diaries. His “frozen film frames” have been exhibited Knapp, our McCosh built from an ever-expanding toolbox of hand-drawn, hand-cut stencils, is her and acclaimed at the Venice Biennale, MOMA/PS1, the Museum Ludwig in Associate Curator, and I teamed up to curate mode of expressing the complexities of sharing emotional travels. For Hyland Cologne, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, among other venues. Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Mather, aka X-O, his stylistic habit of collecting “lost object” materials along The exhibition, which features twenty-two photographic portraits, is Explain, the most comprehensive exhibition his travels is the basis for his often large-scale interpretations of memory and co-curated by Richard Herskowitz, director of the Cinema Pacific film festival, ever mounted of one of Oregon’s (and our emotion, which he visits through shape, color, and texture. and Deborah Colton, owner and director of the Deborah Colton Gallery in nation’s) finest artists. Working with Rick, Gallery Tour with Artists | Saturday, May 9, 2 p.m. Houston. The Deborah Colton Gallery has shown Mekas’s work since 2005 his dealer Charles Froelick, and so many and was founded as an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and others, near and far, who love and admire BEAUTIFUL TIMES promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide. this man’s art and being, has been one of the For the past year, X-O (Hyland Supported in part by a JSMA Academic Support grant, Frozen Film Frames Mather) and Amanda Marie features, among others, images of Robert Frank, Elia Kazan, Pier Paolo Pasolini, most meaningful experiences I have ever had have been making street art and Brett Weston (American, 1911–93). Trees and Fog, Oregon, 1971. working in a museum. The term “labor of love” documenting the results, as they Andy Warhol, Wim Wenders, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono, observed filming Silver gelatin print, 11 x 14 in. Gift from the Christian Keesee travel west, from Brooklyn and their experimental film Bottoms. is fitting, as the more we have learned about Collection Philadelphia to the Midwest and, Also showing in the gallery is Mekas’s 1997 feature film Birth of a Nation, the artist and his art, the deeper our dedication soon, Eugene. Their tour, called to honor his wide-ranging achievements and “Beautiful Times,” led them over the which consists of 170 portraits, sketches, and glimpses of independent film generosity of spirit. Diane Nelson designed the summe r to Philadelphia, where Brett Weston in Oregon makers and activists shot between 1955 and 1996. Three of his 16mm film diaries, gorgeous publication, made possible thanks to they stenciled artworks on walls and Graves Gallery | May 5–September 20 from which the “frozen film frames” are drawn, will screen in the Schnitzer built found object constructions, the Ford Family Foundation and many others, often in abandoned places. They Brett Weston in Oregon features several recent gifts from Cinema series. and Kurt Neugebauer created the beautiful also found inspiration at a South the Brett Weston Archive. One of four sons of noted exhibition design. We’ve organized a full Street landmark, the “Tattooed Mom,” a legendary street artist photographer Edward Weston, Brett Weston was the most Schnitzer Cinema: schedule of programs, too, so be sure to mark hangout on South Street. artistically close with his father. Weston created multiple Scenes from the Life of your calendar for activities from mid-April Andy Warhol (1990) and Right: Amanda Marie at Tattooed photographic series grouped by location of the places Zefiro Torna or Scenes through July. Mom (detail), 2014. © Amanda Marie he lived and visited (among them, Alaska, California, from the Life of George And there’s so much more going on, too! X-O, Beautiful Times, 2014. © X-O Hawaii, Japan, Mexico, and New York). He began visiting Maciunas (1992) All of our galleries are changing over, so be Oregon in the late 1960s, which coincided with a greater Followed by discussion of Mekas’s work with sure to see our recent gift of Brett Weston use of high contrast and abstraction in his work. Weston Deborah Colton and photographs, the unusual “street” art in the quickly developed an affinity for the state’s natural beauty Richard Herskowitz. Schnitzer, our breathtaking Masterworks and the effects of its change of seasons on such familiar Wednesday, April 15, 7 p.m. on Loan, and new additions to our Asian subjects as water, ice, logs, and sand. galleries. We’ve partnered again with Cinema Schnitzer Cinema: Pacific on both an exhibition of Jonas Mekas Walden: Reel One (1969), shown as part photographs and a Fringe Festival evening of of the Cinema Pacific media installations and presentations. JSMAC, Film Festival, with American Pi leading avant-garde our student group, is organizing standing- film scholar Scott room-only programs, and our Latina mother’s Student Lounge | March 12 – May 17 MacDonald group keeps growing in number and strength, The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Student Wednesday, April 29, 7 p.m. thanks in part to an Oregon Arts Commission Advocacy Council’s annual juried student grant. exhibition showcases art in a range of media that blends propagandistic styles with social Members make all of this happen. Thank issues, popular culture, and self-expression. you! Come see what you do.

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CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS

The Architecture and Legacy of Pietro Belluschi Through April 26

The Word Became Flesh: (Detail) Attributed to SHIN Hakgwon. Korean; Joseon dynasty, 19th century. Complete View of Images of Christ in the Diamond Mountains (Geumgangsan jeondo). Eight-panel folding screen; ink and light color Orthodox Devotional on paper, 53 1/2 x 138 1/2 inches. Frederick Star Collection COLLECTIONS Objects “True” Korean Landscapes Through August 30 & Virtuous Scholars Gifts from the Judith Opens July 14 | Huh Wing Gallery and Jin Joo Gallery and Jan Zach Estate Benevolence & Loyalty: During Korea’s Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), literati and professional artists created Through June 15 a new type of landscape painting that combined classical Chinese models with Filial Piety in Chinese Art native Korean scenery. Famous historical sites such as the Diamond Mountains Soreng Gallery of Opens August 8 | Soreng Gallery were visualized as both real and ideal spaces in a development fueled by heightened KIM Yik-yung (born 1935). Chinese Art national consciousness and a boom in tourism. This exhibition—co-curated by Korean; Republican period, Co-curated by Chief Curator Anne Rose Kitagawa and Professor Ina Asim in support 2010. Circular Bronze-Shaped Vistas of a World Anne Rose Kitagawa, chief curator and curator of Asian art, and Gina Kim (MA, of her Chinese and Asian history courses, this selection of paintings and objects Censer with Trigram Design. Beyond: Traditional art history, 2014) Korea Foundation Global Museum Intern—features a number Thrown and hand-fabri- Gardens in Chinese represents ideals of benevolence and loyalty, Confucian values that exerted strong cated porcelain, 4 15/16 x of distinctive Korean landscape paintings, maps, and travel attire. A second theme Material Culture Gustavo Germano (Argentine, born 1964). Ana Rosa ethical and political influence in China, Korea, and Japan for more than 2,500 years. 5 11/16 in. Purchased with the explored is that of Korean Neo-Confucian scholars who wore pure white clothing Kucinski Silva, 1966 and 2012. Digital print. Image courtesy The installation features an album depicting the Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Farwest Steel Korean Art Through July 26 of the artist. and used undecorated porcelain vessels to symbolize their lofty aspirations of Endowment Fund Piety (Ershisi xiao)—a series of virtuous men and women whose exemplary conduct frugality and virtue. has been extolled for generations—along with an exquisite nineteenth-century Ten Symbols of nonofficial formal jacket for a woman on which are embroidered scenes from The Longevity and Late Ausencias White Snake and Dream of the Red Chamber, and other related works from the Joseon Korean Culture Focus Gallery | April 14 – August 16, 2015 museum’s permanent collection. Through June 30 Argentine photographer Gustavo Germano restages snapshots of Brazilian and Argentine families whose Elegance & Nobility: loved ones are among the “disappeared,” people who Modern & Contemporary were tortured and murdered by dictatorial regimes Birds & Beasts: Korean Literati Taste in South America from the 1960s to 1980s. The Through June 30 JSMA’s presentation includes four of his diptychs Animal Imagery in the of original and recreated photographs, with one or Permanent Collection Recononoci.do: more of the original subjects missing. Each pair is Artist Project Space Dominicans of Haitian a powerful statement of pain, suffering, and loss. June 20 – September 13, 2015 Descent The exhibition is made possible through a JSMA Through May 3 Academic Support Grant to support several courses Prompted by a recent generous gift of Mexican folk in Latin American Studies and is organized by art by local collector Robert Bradley, this exhibition Professor Monique Rodrigues Balbuena, Associate features images of domestic and wild animals from Morris Graves’s Goats: Professor of Literature in the Robert D. Clark around the world. Organized by associate curator June Black and museum educator Anonymous (Mexican). Heroes and Fantasies Honors College, and Program Director for Latin Otomi Embroidered Textile Arthurina Fears, Birds & Beasts supports our “Animals in Art” summer camp session with Animals and Birds, Through April 19 American Studies. and Spanish-language art lessons. Among the works featured in the exhibition Top: Traditionally attributed to Zhou Mi. Chinese, Lao Laizi, from the TwentyFour Paragons of Filial mid-late 20th century. Piety (Ershisi xiao), Album leaf; ink and color on silk, 10 1/4 x 12 in. Murray Warner Collection are an Otomi embroidered textile and coconut masks from the Mezcala region of Embroidered textile, 27 ¾ Guerrero State, as well as prints, photographs, paintings, and sculptures highlighting x 32 1/2 in. Gift of Robert D. Chinese Woman’s Nonofficial Formal Coat. Chinese; Qing dynasty, 1875–1900. Silk tapestry Bradley patterned with silk and gold-wrapped thread. 37 1/2 x 68 in. Murray Warner Collection all manner of birds and beasts, from cats and cockatoos to doves and dogs. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] ON LOAN

NEW Gerhard Richter (German, ACQUISITIONS born 1932). Wolken (Fenster) (Clouds [Window]), 1970. Oil on canvas. Private Masami TERAOKA (born In the 1970s, Japanese artist Masami Teraoka began collection. © 2015 Gerhardt 1936). AIDS Series/Geisha using traditional Japanese print-derived imagery Richter in Bath, 2008. 48 color woodcut; ink and color to produce brilliant, quirky works rife with humor, on paper; 16 9/16 x 11 1/16 in. innuendo, and cross-cultural satire. In response to Museum Purchase the tragedy of the AIDS crisis, he harnessed the same style to produce powerful images confronting the horrors of HIV, his disappointment with the U.S. government’s inadequate response, and his sorrow at the plight of victims. The JSMA recently acquired a wonderful Teraoka print entitled AIDS Series/Geisha in a Bath, which features a nude nineteenth-century courtesan using MASTERWORKS her teeth to tear open a condom packet while seated in a Japanese wooden bathtub. Above is a humorous text (inscribed in a style of calligraphy usually used for Wolken (Fenster) (Clouds [Window]) by Gerhard Richter theatrical narrative chant) recounting her thoughts as Gerhard Richter’s early series of monumental cloud paintings are twentieth-century she struggles to open the package and registers shock expressions of the nineteenth-century concept of the sublime. The paintings purposefully at the odor of spermicide and unhappiness at the allude to the work of German Romanticist Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1880) and other discovery that the item is export-sized (and thus will landscape painters who sought to express the awe-inspiring grandeur of nature in their work. not fit her lover). Above hover three condom packets, The inspiration for Richter’s cloudscapes was a collection of photographic studies in Atlas, his which playfully illustrate the text reading kon domu personal scrapbook of source imagery and newspaper clippings. The window-like arrangement [condom] ga tonde [fly] yuku, yuku [go]—a parody of four canvases creates a sense of separation between the viewer and the expanse of blue of the terminology used to express sexual climax in sky. By organizing the work in this way, Richter abstracted an otherwise photorealistic image. Japanese erotic literature. Wolken (Fenster) is on view just outside the Focus Gallery through mid-May.

The JSMA is pleased to be the recipient of major funding from The Ford Family Foundation through a special grant program managed by the Oregon Arts Commission that will allow for the acquisition of Torch by Walla Walla painter and printmaker James Lavadour this year. The Art Acquisition Fund helps visual arts institutions with publicly accessible collections acquire seminal works by Oregon visual artists. Lavadour, who is primarily self-taught, creates landscapes of a scale, intensity, and reverence that reflect the powerful connection between human beings and their natural surroundings. He is inspired by the Blue Mountains MARUYAMA Ōkyo (1733–1795). and the terrain in and around the Umatilla Indian Japanese; Edo period, late 18th Japanese Screens by Maruyama Ōkyo century. Dragon and Tiger. Reservation in eastern Oregon, where he was born Pair of six-panel folding screens; and raised. Lavadour has said, “A painting is an event This evocative pair of six-panel folding screens bears the signature of Maruyama Ōkyo, ink on paper. Anonymous Loan a remarkable eighteenth-century Japanese artist who combined eclectic influences into a of nature, it’s not a depiction of nature.” Since 2000, he On view in the distinctive style informed by both Chinese academic painting-derived decorative tendencies has also counted Chinese art, Abstract , Preble/Murphy Gallery and jazz music among his influences. Torch, painted and realism learned through Western-style scientific observation. Early in his career, the through mid-May James Lavadour (American, b. 1951). Torch, 2012. Oil on panel, 48 x 60 in. This representational aspect of Ōkyo’s art garnered criticism, but wealthy townsmen came to admire work is being acquired with the assistance of The Ford Family Foundation in 2012, well exhibits the richness and virtuosity for and the Van Duyn Art Museum Fund. Image Courtesy PDX Contemporary Art, which Lavadour is so renowned. It will be the first work his illusionistic abilities, and eventually he was able to found his own school of painting. A Portland. by this artist in the JSMA’s permanent collection. variety of brush techniques are used to render the dragon and tiger as opposing primordial Lavadour will participate in a panel honoring Rick forces: Described with various intensities of black ink and inkwash, the right screen features a Bartow on Saturday, April 18, at 11 a.m. mist-enshrouded dragon brandishing a tense, angular claw. On the left screen, a tiger crouches on a rocky outcropping and stares intently across the void toward the swiftly moving dragon.

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This summer, the JSMA offers seven weeks of youth art camp in the museum’s art studio. Campers will explore a range of media and materials and regularly visit the galleries. WEEK 4 WEEK 6 Tuition: Full Day $225; Half Day $125; After Care $25/week. July 20–July 24 August 10–August 14 Scholarships are available for fee-based programs. World Building Bricks, Blocks, and Pixels For more information and to register, please visit Grades 6–8, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Grades 6–8, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. http://jsma.uoregon.edu/ArtCamp. Create worlds of your Explore art using styles and imagination by blending methods inspired by video drama, writing, and games, such as Minecraft, WEEK 1 Make Your Mark! visual art. Develop the and building sets, including June 22–June 26 Exploring Drawing in Art characteristics of a setting LEGO. Create 2D and 3D art through the exploration of with a focus on using these LEGO Art and Grades 1–5, 1–4 p.m. Imagination performing arts, comics, simple forms to reimagine Explore the elements of art NEWS DEVELOPMENT Gracías, OAC! Bienvenidos, anime, maps, games, the world around you. Grades 1–5, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. and learn creative drawing fantasy, and science fiction. Gourmet Group: Art in the Attic Discover the creative techniques. Experiment Illustration Club de Arte para Mamás! “Art in the Attic,” an annual fundraiser for the JSMA, possibilities of LEGO blocks! mark-making using a Words and Images: Grades 6–8, 1–4 p.m. Explore using LEGOs as fun variety of media and The JSMA has been awarded $5,800 from the Oregon Arts Commission Arts Creative Writing and Learn creative techniques returns to the Oakway Center Heritage Courtyard on an art tool and construct materials. Illustration in illustrationusing ink, Builds Communities program to support our Club de Arte para Mamás. The cityscapes, sculptures, Wednesday, August 26. Art and décor from homes Grades 6–8, 1–4 p.m. watercolor, and drawing mosaics, and more inspired throughout the community will be on sale with all grant furthers the museum’s Latino Engagement Plan, created thanks to a WEEK 3 Perfect the craft of writing media. by the museum’s collection. grant from the Oregon Cultural Trust. July 13–July 17 and learn techniques in proceeds benefiting the museum’s enriching educational Art and Science Now in its second year, the Club de Arte para Mamás provides free Stop-Motion and illustration during this WEEK 7 programs. Explorers Cartoon Animation writer’s retreat. From August 17–August 21 Organized by the Gourmet Group, a volunteer group art workshops and childcare for mothers who speak English as a second Grades 1–5, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Grades 1–5, 1–4 p.m. narrative writing prompts Arte Folclórico Fantástico language. The club was developed to fill a need identified during Latino Create, make, innovate! to exercises in free writing, that has been fundraising for the JSMA for more than 40 Learn how to create your (Inmersión en el Idioma Campers can take their poetry, fiction, and years, Art in the Attic gives the community an opportunity Engagement Plan focus group sessions and interviews, when we learned that own animated feature Español) artwork to the next level by nonfiction, students will and explore claymation Grados 1–8, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. to buy previously owned treasures at great prices. Spanish-speaking mothers in our community, most of whom are immigrants, investigating the science hone their writing skills. All and paper animation. Aprende sobre el arte often feel isolated and lack opportunities to engage with each other. behind making art. Create students will create a bound Money raised from previous Art in the Attic events Each student will learn folclórico, explora objetos wind-powered kinetic book of poems and stories, has supported JSMA educational programs, including “We use art and creativity as tools to bridge cultures and life experiences,” how to design and create de Latinoamérica y crea sculptures, explore the and at the end of the week, fun special effects in this pinturas en papel amate, outreach, school tours, and scholarships for camps and says Arthurina Fears, museum educator for studio programs. Meeting on chemistry of color through students will have the interactive camp. esculturas, textiles y más. Monday mornings and Saturday afternoons during the year (see dates below), tie-dye, and make pop-up opportunity to do a book classes. The JSMA serves more than 3,000 K–12 students Esta clase se enseñará por the women learn arts production techniques, participate in personalized cards. reading. annually through the school tour program. WEEK 2 completo en español. If you’re interested in donating art and décor in good gallery visits, and socialize with mothers with similar experiences. July 6–July 10 Animals in Art WEEK 5 Art and Architecture “OAC funding has allowed us to expand the program to include weekend Comics and Manga Grades 1-5, 1–4 p.m. condition to Art in the Attic, please contact Francine July 27–July 31 Grades 1–8, 1–4 p.m. Grades 1–5, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Discover animals in art Berryman: [email protected] or 541.510.4976. sessions and guest teachers as well as fund marketing, supplies, Eco Art Design buildings and Explore the many aspects in this cross-cultural and evaluation,” says Lisa Abia-Smith, director of education. Grades 1–5, 9 a.m–12 p.m. monuments in this of comics and comic book exploration. Inspired by Discover how to create hands-on exploration of In addition to workshops taught by Fears, the JSMA has engaged other art inspired by works from animal imagery in the unique works of art using architecture. Learn about around the world. Learn museum’s collection, artists and educators to teach in the program. Local arts advocate and teacher natural and recycled architecture across different how to tell stories through construct sculptures, Jessica Zapata, a participant in the Club de Arte para Mamás, will lead two materials. Construct cultures and time periods comic strips and other textiles, costumes, papier- sculptures, terrariums, and and gain experience workshops, and Sheila Roth and Carolina Reese, artists and JSMA exhibition comics art! mâché, and more. collages, paint, and try your drawing, designing, and May is Members Appreciation Month interpreters, will lead workshops on printmaking, ceramics, and photography. hand at papermaking. building with natural and Club de Arte para Mamás has also connected with our OAC-supported recycled materials. Mark your calendar for Members Appreciation Month— World of Work high school internship program. One of our WOW interns, Passport to Asia Grades 1–5, 1–4 p.m. coming to the JSMA in May! We know that members make Josh Melick, assists with art activities and childcare for the Club de Arte, and Create hanging scrolls, it happen so to say thank you for all that our members do, his mother recently began volunteering and attending the workshops. paintings, origami, collages, we’re offering a month of special promotions and discounts. “It is amazing to see the women really invested in the arts, musical instruments, During the month of May, members can bring a friend to traditional costumes, and taking risks, and exploring aspects of their lives through art,” sculptures inspired by your the museum free of admission charge and enter to win says Fears. “I am so excited to see how this program is growing travels through our Chinese, special JSMA prizes. Members will also enjoy discounts at and reaching this important community.” Japanese, and Korean the Museum Store and on membership renewals and gifts of galleries. membership. See you then! Join the Club Members Only Tour | May 6, 6 p.m. Saturdays, 12–4 p.m. | April 18; May 2; Oct. 24; Nov. 7 Mondays, 9–10:30 a.m. | April 20; May 18; June 8; Sept. 21; Oct. 19; Nov. 16; Dec. 14 [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Calendar Schnitzer Cinema & OF EVENTS Cinema Pacific Film Festival

Free Admission for Active Artists Panel: A Tribute Art and Healing inspired by Rick Bartow: FAMILY DAY: Saturday Workshop for The monthly Schnitzer Cinema series, curated by Cinema Pacific director Richard Duty Military Personnel to Rick Bartow Workshop Things You Know But Storytelling through Art Teens: Plein-Air Painting Herskowitz, will be supplemented by additional media arts programs at the JSMA Families Saturday, April 18, 11 a.m. Cannot Explain. Students Saturday, May 16, Saturday, July 11, 12-4 p.m. Saturday, May 30, 1–3 p.m. during the annual Cinema Pacific film festival, April 27–May 3. As usual, regular Schnitzer The JSMA offers free With Seiichi Hiroshima, Instructor: Sara will explore themes of 12 p.m.–3 p.m. Grades 7–12, $45 admission to all active Frank LaPena, James McDonough, LMFT, ATR-BC gesture, self, tradition, and This free family event is ($40.50 for JSMA Members) Cinema programs begin at 7 p.m. and include free popcorn and other refreshments. duty military personnel, Lavadour, and Lillian Pitt; Adults (high school transformation. inspired by renowned Led by Arthurina Fears, including National Guard moderated by Rebecca Northwest artist Rick Bartow this workshop explores students welcomed) ArtAccess VSA Jonas Mekas: Scenes from gathered between the years and Reserve, and their Dobkin, Professor of and his special exhibition techniques in painting $10 Students Workshops for K–12 the Life of Andy Warhol 1964 and 1969. Its original families from Memorial Day Anthropology and Curator at the JSMA, Things You outdoors. Students will $20 Non-students Children with Special (1990) and Zefiro Torna title was Diaries, Notes, until Labor Day 2015, as part of Native American Art. Know But Cannot Explain. have the option to work Includes cost of all art Needs or Scenes from the Life of and Sketches. The sketches of the Blue Star Museum materials Spend the day enjoying art with acrylic and oil paints. Young Murasaki (Waka George Maciunas (1992) refer to various films that, program. A Conversation with Rick Saturdays, April 11, May 9, activities and performances All materials are provided. Looking for a short break edited previously, were later Bartow Murasaki), from Vol. 1 of an June 6, June 27, and July by Oregon artists and arts Followed by discussion of Free First Friday in your day to slow down, abridged illustrated Tale 11, 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Mekas’s work with Deborah included in Walden: Report Saturday, April 18, 2 p.m. engage in creativity, and organizations and learn April 3, May 1, June 5, July of Genji (Genji Monogatari) These drop-in studio Colton and Richard from Millbrook (1965/1966), See Bartow exhibition, make art inspired by the about the art of storytelling 3, and August 7 manuscript. Japanese; Edo sessions feature accessible Herskowitz. Hare Krishna (1966), Notes page 3 work of artist Rick Bartow? and Native American Enjoy the JSMA with free period, circa 1688–1704. art lessons and activities Wednesday, April 15, on the Circus (1966), and Join us for an art production crafts. With a healing arts Clam Bake admission the first Friday of Illustration from the first for K-12 children with component, local arts 7 p.m. more. Scott MacDonald, the Earth Day workshop exploring every month. of a set of 5 manuscript special needs, instructed Scenes from the Life of Andy leading chronicler of avant- methods and techniques for educator and author Linda Bake, and representatives Free Admission books; ink, color and gold by an OHSU occupational Warhol (1982, 36 min.) garde filmmakers, is the using art in your daily life. Clare will lead a quilt-making from Mountain Machine First Friday ArtTalk Wednesday, April 22 on paper. Murray Warner therapist and artists. activity and will explain how chronicles not only Warhol, author of the five volumes Studios will demo their April 3 Collection Free, but reservations are quilts and blankets provide but also the social and of the Critical Cinema series In Flux Deux: A Night of innovative computer See Bartow exhibition, Creating Collections required. Contact Nori Rice comfort. Storyteller Esther cultural excitement that (UC Press) and of several Performance Art games. Exhibition offerings page 3 Tuesday, June 2, 5:30 p.m. emphasis on Chinese at [email protected] or Stutzman, a member of swirled around him. The other books on avant-garde include The Places We Are Wednesday, April 22, How do you become a garden imagery, Korean 541.346.6410 to register. the Confederated Tribes of film includes footage from film. with street artists X-O and 4–8 p.m. First Saturday Public collector? Why do collectors scholarly aesthetics, and Funding for this program has Siletz, will share traditional the first public performance Amanda Marie and media Join JSMAC and the JSMA Tour collect? What does it Japanese prints. been provided by the John stories of the local Kalapuya of the Velvet Underground Avant-Gardens: installations by Violet Ray, for a night of Performance April 4, May 2, June 6, and mean to manage other¹s F. Kennedy Center for the tribe and the life lessons Outdoor Family Film: at Delmonico’s Hotel in Landscape in Jonas Mekas, John Park, Art! “In Flux Deux” presents August 1, 1 p.m. private collections? We¹ll Conversation with Barry Performing Arts. they reveal. Music, a major Song of the Sea 1966 and includes an array Experimental Film and Digital Arts students. a diverse collection of Enjoy a 45-minute tour explore answers to these Lopez and Rick Bartow part of storytelling, will be Wednesday, August 5, of luminaries from John with guest speaker Scott You are also invited to performances by UO of highlights from the and other questions on our Saturday, July 18, 2 p.m. featured through a hand 8:30 p.m. Lennon to Edie Sedgwick. MacDonald perform martial art moves students and a special museum’s collection and panel with special guests, drum demonstration of Bring your family and Zefiro Torna or Scenes from Thursday, April 30, 4 p.m. in the Wushu Photobooth, guest performance by art current exhibitions with a collectors and collections songs. Enjoy a visit from friends, lawn chairs or the Life of George Maciunas In this presentation, Scott experience the Filipino instructor Ty Warren. Club de Arte para Mamás docent. Free with museum managers Amber Noland, Cascades Raptor Center, blankets, and a picnic, (1992, 35 min.) is a tribute Karaoke Bar, and see the Sábados de 12 a 4 pm: 18 MacDonald screens and admission. Josh Roth, and Andrew story time with Cynthia and enjoy the JSMA’s from one Lithuanian Members Only Tour Family and de abril, 2 de mayo, 24 de discusses four extraordinary winning remixes of “wuxia” Teufel; moderated by JSMA Olsen from the Eugene fourth annual outdoor expatriate to another. films: Eaux D’Artifice classic A Touch of Zen, and Land, Law, and Liberty: Wednesday, May 6, 6 p.m. Youth Programs octubre y 7 de noviembre executive director Jill Hartz. Public Library, and a film screening on the Comprised of diary footage (Kenneth Anger, 15 min.), much more! For more Legal Perspectives on Lunes de 9 a 10:30 performance of Raven and of Maciunas from the mid- Artists Gallery Tour of Sunday Family Fun at the Memorial Quad in front of Fog Line (Larry Gottheim, information, go to http:// Tribal Rights am: 20 de abril, 18 de Petrel, a Northwest Native ’50s until his tragically early The Many Places We Are Chamber Music on Eugene Public Library: the museum. This year’s 11 min.), Time and Tide cinemapacific.uoregon.edu/ Thursday, April 16, mayo, 8 de junio, 21 de American tale, by the JSMA selection, Song of the Sea passing in the mid-’70s, Saturday, May 9, 2 p.m. Campus Accordion Books (Peter Hutton, 35 min.), and fringe-festival. Tickets for 12:30–1:30 p.m. septiembre, 19 de octubre, Dragon Puppet Theatre bits of Fluxus events, and Friday, June 5, 12 p.m. Sunday, April 5, (2014, Ireland/Luxembourg/ Impromptu (Rose Lowder, museum members are $5. See Bartow exhibition, 16 de noviembre y 14 de performances, this is a Collecting Bartow Enjoy a free noontime 2:30–3:30 p.m. Belgium/France/Denmark, 8 min.). He will show how page 3 diciembre Classical Guitar Concert 93 minutes), is based on the beautiful portrait of a lost Wednesday, May 20, concert featuring student Location: Eugene Public these and other avant- Black Maria Film and Consulte la página 10. Para Sunday, June 28, Irish legend of the Selkies. friend and living spirit. 5:30 p.m. chamber ensembles from Library Downtown Branch, garde films explore and Video Festival Rick Bartow: Things We mayor información, favor de 2:30–4 p.m. An Academy Award- See Bartow exhibition, the UO School of Music and 100 W. 10th Ave. challenge the modes by Wednesday, May 13, 7 p.m. contactar a Arthurina Fears, Enjoy a free concert of nominated film, Song of the Jonas Mekas: Walden: Know But Cannot Explain page 3 Dance. This fun introduction to which people interact with [email protected] o al classical guitar repertoire Sea tells the story of the last Reel One (1969), shown The Black Maria Film Patron Circle Opening bookbinding, led by JSMA and perceive landscapes, 541.346.6443 featuring Craig Einhorn seal-child, Saoirse, and her as part of the Cinema and Video Festival is Reception Exhibition Opening Asian Gallery Tour with educator Arthurina Fears, creating opportunities and the 2015 recipient brother, Ben, who go on Pacific Film Festival, with an international juried Thursday, April 16, Reception: JSMAC Anne Rose Kitagawa teaches children and their Exhibition Reception: for fresh insight, deeper of the Eugene Classical an epic journey to save the leading avant-garde film competition with a mission 5:30–7:30 p.m. Student Art Exhibition families how to construct NewArt Northwest Kids: appreciation, and more Wednesday, July 15, Guitar Fellowship, which world of magic and discover scholar Scott MacDonald to exhibit and reward Wednesday, decorative accordion-fold Last Night I Had the meaningful engagement Public Ceremony 5:30 p.m. is awarded annually to a the secrets of their past. Wednesday, April 29, cutting-edge works from May 27, 5–7 p.m. books. Strangest Dream with the environment. Friday, April 17, 5:30 p.m. Originally founded guitar student at the State As enthralling for adults 7 p.m. independent film and Join us for the opening primarily as a museum of Saturday, May 16, video makers. The festival UO Memorial Quad outside After-school Art Class: University of New York, as it is for children young Walden was Mekas’s first reception of JSMAC’s third East Asian Art, the JSMA 11 a.m.–12 p.m. Cinema Pacific Fringe takes its name from the JSMA Creating Contemporary Fredonia. This program is and old. Cosponsored by diary film, and it was edited student art exhibition. boasts significant holdings Celebrate the artists in the Festival first motion picture studio, Art cosponsored by the Oregon Cinema Studies, the UO as a collection of images Public Reception of Chinese, Korean and JSMA’s 8th annual K–12 art Saturday, May 2, 8–11 p.m. built by Thomas Edison Things We Know But Bach Festival Road Scholar Folklore Program and Friday, April 17, 6–8 p.m. Japanese art that allow April 8–May 27, exhibition at this free public Get your ticket in 1893, and is now in its Cannot Explain: Program and coordinated Osher Lifelong Learning UO students and visitors 3:30–5 p.m. reception. (cinemapacific.org/fringe- thirty-third year and its Featuring Rick Bartow and A Symposium with Academic Extension. & Summer Session. In the the Backseat Drivers band to study these dynamic Grades 1–5, $90 festival) to this lively sixth at the Jordan Schnitzer Saturday, May 30, event of rain, the program cultures. Chief curator ($81 for JSMA Members) carnival of multimedia Museum of Art. This year’s 10 a.m.–4 p.m. will be moved inside the of Asian art Anne Rose Scholarships are available museum. art installations and selection emphasizes See Bartow exhibition. Kitagawa will lead visitors for fee-based programs. performances. Joanna new experimental media, page 3 through the current Instructor: Barbara Brock Priestley presents her along with documentary, exhibitions of the JSMA’s Create drawings, paintings, latest animated films and animated, and narrative enviable collection with sculptures, and prints interactive artwork, Clam shorts. [ 12 ] Walden [ 13 ] In addition to Under Pressure, the JSMA opened Two Ways Down, a hand-drawn animated installation and film by arts seen Portland artist Laura Heit.

Collector Jordan Schnitzer gives Patron Circle guests a tour of Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation.

Top: Leadership Council president Phillip Piele welcomes guests Leadership Council member Dom Vetri and Executive Director Jill Hartz

DÍA DE LA FAMILIA! Thanks to a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission, the JSMA held our first bilingual Dia de la Familia event Patrons in December. This fun-filled day included making Pre-Colombian pendants with Sam Becerra, Ex-voto Circle The Oregon Asian Celebration celebrated 30 years of love Above: McCosh Associate Curator Danielle Knapp with paintings, Holiday card printmaking, musical instrument members and diversity in February! JSMAC members Bea Ogden, Marcy Hammock and Herb Merker making and a community mural. Family-friendly tours enjoying the Emma Oravecz and Brandi Wilkens worked in the University were led in English and Spanish and guests enjoyed story exhibition. Interim VP and Provost Frances Bronet, Judith Hankin of Oregon atrium while the JSMA’s Dragon Puppet Theatre time with the Eugene Public Library, music by Springfield and Patti Barkin performed Kintaro for hundreds of visitors. High School’s Mariachi del Sol and El Tigre y El Padre by the JSMA Dragon Puppet Theatre.

This winter the JSMA Lounge hosted Complex Systems, an installation by interdisciplinary artist Audra Wolowiec, which included a participatory postcard series where visitors inserted values into scientific equations to create new meaning out of misinterpretation. Complex Systems is the first project to result from a pioneering Visiting Artist Program with the lab of Professor Eric Corwin in the Department of Physics at the .

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Gloria Paniagua, Untitled, 2004, gelatin silver print Museum Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Wednesday Open until 8:00 p.m. Visual Storytelling The museum is closed Mondays and major holidays. A Collaboration between ph15 and Kelly Middle School Cover: Rick Bartow (American, b. 1946). Crow Hop IV, 2014. Acrylic, graphite on canvas, 72 x 96 in. Courtesy of the artist May 30–September 13 | Education Corridor and Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR This special exhibition presents a photographic dialogue between youth in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and students from Kelly Middle School’s Advancement Via MARCHÉ CAFÉ Individual Determination (AVID) program. Ph15, a nonprofit organization that uses photography as a tool for visual storytelling, gave cameras to youth in one of the worst slums in Buenos Aires so they could respond to their surroundings. A selection of those works is being shown alongside photographs taken by Kelly School AVID students, who participated in a two-month workshop program led by Nori Rice, a UO graduate student and JSMA Arts and Healthcare GTF, and university volunteers. The AVID program aims to close the achievement gap by building critical thinking, Special thanks to QSL Print Communications, Eugene, Oregon, our printing partner. literacy, and math skills among at-risk and under-represented middle schoolers. An equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. This publication will be made available in accessible formats upon request. Accommodations for people with disabilities will be provided if requested in advance by calling 541.346.3213.