Exhibition Dates: March 9 – August 14 A coda to the proceeding Follow the Sun: The Holland and Orton Collections exhibition, Follow the River: Portraits of the Columbia Plateau will reframe the museum’s Worth D. Griffin Collection of Native portraiture alongside cultural materials from Plateau tribes including the Palus (Palouse) and Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) whose homelands the Washington State University Pullman campus is located upon. In the summer of 1936, Washington State College (WSC) Fine Arts Department Chair Worth D. Griffin (with the support of WSC President E. O. Holland and the Board of Regents) began an ambitious series of oil on canvas portraits of . » More .
Mika Aono and Neal Williams making prints. Photo by Kathleen Caprario.
Lane Community College art instructor Kathleen Caprario was a textile design artist in New York City before she moved to Oregon. When she came to Eugene in the late ’70s her attention turned from textiles to landscapes.
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A Critical Conversation, at Eugene Contemporary Art’s ANTI-AESTHETIC gallery through March 21, she merges her interest in pattern and the environment with the topic of race.
Sponsored by a Black Lives Matter artist grant from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and a 2020 Lane Arts artist grant, the gallery show features work by eleven artists and four poets, as well as two panel discussions and a March 6 screen print performance.
9 articles to revisit: Learn about local Black history and presence every month
1. Learn about the history of the Black Cultural Center at the University of Oregon
In 2015, the Black Student Task Force on the University of Oregon campus gave the administration a list of 12 demands. The group wanted changes that would better reflect an environment that was safe and accepting of Black students, and that worked toward the UO’s stated mission of promoting equity, diversity and inclusion.
Some of those demands were never met. But one that was met four years later brings a significant change to campus.
In 2019, history was made at the UO when the long-awaited Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center opened to cheers of the students who had long fought for it.
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Highlights are Yamamoto Masao at PDX Contemporary, Cosmic Microscapes in Bend and PSU artists at Schnitzer Museum.
The Tribune will highlight some gallery openings and other arts happenings in the first edition of each month, coinciding with First Thursday (March 4). Most galleries had reopened with coronavirus/COVID-19 safety protocols and government restrictions, including limited capacities; some require appointments, some have web content. Please check individual websites for info:
• Reminders: Blue Sky Gallery, 122 N.W. Eighth Ave., features Wendel White s Manifest, which includes photos of objects and documents associated with African American history, and Jon Henry s Stranger Fruit, a photo series created in response to police violence against Black men, through March 27. There ll be a Henry talk at 5 p.m. March 13. For more: www.blueskygallery.org. … Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 N.W. Ninth Ave., shows Michelle Ross I Am Your Signal paintings
A new exhibition at the WSU Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art opens to the public on March 9, featuring artwork from artists the community has yet to see. The collection is titled “Under the Same Sun and Moon: New Acquisitions from the Collection” and will run through Aug. 14. It features new art pieces the.