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.
March 01 2021
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
Nkame at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art a mesmerizing journey through Belkis Ayón s dramatic iconography
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Cuban printmaker Belkis Ayón was a woman whose work broke down an all-male secret society, an atheist whose art defined a religious tradition’s iconography. And Ayón was at the height of her artistic prowess when she took her own life for reasons unknown.
“Nkame: A Retrospective Of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón,” now up at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, reveals not a singular body of black-and-white contradiction, though. Instead, its life-sized visions enfold viewers in infinite gray shades that define a universal mythic dimension.
Venue: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU Exhibition Date: March 1, 2021 – August 21, 2021 Under the Same Sun and Moon: New Acquisitions from the Collection puts on view, in most instances for the first time, selections from collection newcomers. Over the last five years, the museum has added significant works of art to its permanent collection through selective purchases and generous gifts. Highlights include a quartet of complex prints by artist Jim Hodges as well as series of watercolors by the late artist Rick Bartow. Other important artists who have had works recently acquired by the museum include Ann Hamilton, Julie Mehretu, Marie Watt, and Richard Tuttle. These works have deepened our holdings . » More .