Every year, the JSMA partners with the University of Oregon’s Common Reading—campuswide programming around a shared book and its themes—to organize a Common Seeing exhibition that explores and expands on the Common Reading through visual art. The 2020-21 novel is This is My America by UO Assistant Vice Provost for Advising, Kimberly Johnson. The Common Reading’s charge of Listen. Learn. Act. incorporates different bodies of work across multiple platforms, focusing on Blackness, Black experience, and dismantling racism. The works on view in this year’s Common Seeing, on loan from the collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer, are by Black American artists Hank Willis Thomas (American, b. 1976) and Alison Saar (American, b. 1956). Their art compels us to look, listen, learn, and act.

The JSMA believes that art can move people to change. As an academic art museum, it is critical for us to listen, learn, and act in order to build trust and understanding. We are committed to the advancement of anti-racism in museum culture and diverse and equitable approaches in our work. The JSMA’s exhibitions and public programs strive to amplify multiple perspectives, experiences, and voices. LOOK. Listen. Learn. Act. is generously made possible by the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.

 

Image: Alison Saar (American, b. 1956). Sorrow’s Kitchen (detail), 2020. Wood, tin, acrylics, spray tar, ceiling tin and linoleum, 28 x 12 x 10 in. Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer (Photo Credit: L.A. Louver).  

 

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is pleased to host Nkame, a solo exhibition dedicated to the work of the late Cuban printmaker Belkis Ayón (1967-1999). During her short but fertile career, she produced an extraordinary body of work central to the history of contemporary printmaking in Cuba and abroad. 

Nkame: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón is curated by Cristina Vives and organized by the Belkis Ayón Estate, Havana, Cuba, with the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Exhibition Tour Management by Landau Traveling Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA. The exhibition premiered in the United States in 2016, and in 2017, ArtNews magazine named it one of the top ten exhibitions in the world. Behind the Veil of a Myth, a 2018 publication written by Cristina Vives and edited by the Estate of Belkis Ayón, the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, and Estudio Figueroa-Vives in Havana, accompanies the exhibition.

Image: Belkis Ayón, Sikán, 1991, collagraph. Courtesy of the Estate of Belkis Ayón.

Art Exhibit by current UO Studnt Isa Ramos

Artist Statement:

I am a Texas-born queer Mexican-American whose work includes photography, design, illustration, and film/video. My penchant for maximalism takes root in every world I imagine, owed to the fact that I am a rather dramatic person whose foundations were cured by family stories about witches and the supernatural and have turned into a fascination with magical realism and saturated realities.

Opening Act is a body of work that represents select photographs from the initial years of my photography. As I tried to navigate how I wanted to use the camera to express myself and communicate through a visual medium I experimented with many of my interests: friends, cycling, street photography and my favorite city, San Francisco. Opening Act encompasses a period of growth and maturity in my photography. 

Bio:  

Christopher Stricklen is a Bay Area photographer who places a notable focus on cycling and street photography. Throughout his years working in the heart of Union Square Christopher began his journey learning the theater of street photography in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Also as an avid cyclist he hasn’t hesitated to sling his camera over his shoulder to document his experience on two wheels throughout Northern California.  

Dr. Eric Garcia will be available on Tuesdays from 10:00-12:00 p.m. Dr. Garcia is the Latinx and Undocumented Student Specialist and Senior Staff Psychologist at University Counseling Services. 


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