To limit the spread of COVID-19, some events may be held remotely. If you have questions about a specific event, please contact the event organizer or see the event description in the UO Calendar.
There is always something happening in the College of Design. Join us for art exhibits, guest lectures, conferences, research symposia, and more. Most events are free and open to the public. You can join our email list to receive our Upcoming Events weekly announcement and stay in the know about the latest happenings.
9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
Join us for an educational session about a collaboration between Indigenous Fine Art and laser 3D-scanners and laser 3D-printers.
Speakers: Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos), Artist & Kazi Rafizullah, 3D-Print Lab Manager
Special thanks to the Knight Campus and UO Research and Innovation for their support of this event.
Siestreem's exhibition "Pearly Gates" at the University of Oregon Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is made possible by the University of Oregon, Center for Art Research (CFAR), and 2021-22 Curators-in-Residence Tiffany Harker and Iris Williamson for their "Habits of Denial" program funded by The Ford Family Foundation.
5:30–7:00 p.m.
Since its construction as the principal shrine to its namesake, the Basilica of St. Paul in Rome has been embellished with numerous sculptures. Such works are integral to the function and significance of the church. This presentation will deploy an array of digital tools such as modeling, photogrammetric scanning, and virtual reality to visualize and analyze a selection of sculptures spanning over 1,600 years.
Nicola (Nick) Camerlenghi is Associate Professor at Dartmouth College where he teaches and researches early Christian and medieval architecture with a focus on the city of Rome. He is particularly invested in approaching these topics through digital tools, such as virtual reality, augmented reality, GIS mapping, 3D modeling, photogrammetry, and laser scanning.
10:00 a.m.
Sean Burrus is the Interim Curator and Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and the Co-director of the NWxNE project, a digital initiative. He specializes in the art of the ancient Mediterranean, with a secondary focus on global contemporary art and themes of migration and global connectivities. He served as the Bothmer Fellow at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Department of Greek and Roman Art and as a Fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan.
This lecture is sponsored by a Sherl K. Coleman-Margaret E. Guitteau Professorship in the Humanities from the Oregon Humanities Center and is part of the Spring 2022 Ancient Jewish Art and Architecture Lecture Series.
Registration for this lecture is required to receive the Zoom link: Register here.
noon
Jon Kerr, PhD student at the College of Design at the University of Oregon, will give a talk on "The Empress Pepper Pot From the Hoxne Hoard: Cultural Interaction in a Late Roman Artifact."
Zoom: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/99393882200?pwd=bjNEUXUzNzlqemlWbWMyaURuY1I3QT09
4:00 p.m.
University of Oregon Spring 2022 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research, co-sponsored by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art where Watt's current exhibition "Likeness or Not: Reflections from the African Diaspora" is currently on view.
Lectures will be in Lawrence Hall, Room 177, 1190 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, OR 97403 and will also live stream on the UO IS Media Services YouTube.
“I will show and talk about the thrust of my photography practice over the last fifty years. I have primarily been very interested in the culture, history, and migration of people in the African American Diaspora. This comes from my roots as the offspring of southern born parents who came west as part of the Great Migration of the Twentieth Century. My work has traced evidence of that journey in the landscape, the culture, belief, artifacts and faces of those who moved. I have also documented the source and roots of that migration, having photographed in the south, as well as in other destination in the west and north. This research has recently expanded to tracing patterns of culture and migration of the diaspora in Europe and Africa. I have also collected artifacts and historical literature as the vehicles that mark these journeys.” – Lewis Watts, 2022
Lewis Watts is a photographer, archivist, curator, and Professor Emeritus of Art at UC Santa Cruz. His research and artwork centers around the “cultural landscape” primarily in communities in the African Diaspora in different parts of the world. He is the co- author of “Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era” Heyday Books Berkeley 2020, “New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition” UC Press 2013 and “Portraits” EditionOne Press Berkeley 2020. His work has been exhibited at and/or is in the collections of The Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, Staatiche Kunstammiunger, Dresden Germany, Autograph London, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, The Oakland Museum of California, The Amistad Center for Art and Culture, Hartford, Conn, and The McEvoy Foundation, San Francisco among others. He is affiliated with the Rena Bransten Gallery San Francisco.
5:00–6:00 p.m.
6:00–9:00 p.m.
The year 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of the completion of Alvar Aalto’s Library at Mount Angel Abbey. After postponing this event due to the coronavirus, we will be celebrating this milestone and honoring the beautiful and impactful ways that Aalto made daylighting an integral part of his designs. Please join us for the 2022 Reynolds Symposium: Aalto : Light, in Portland and at the library in Mt. Angel, Oregon, May 20-21, 2022.
The Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto, has been named “a master of light.” His architecture is among the most well-regarded of the mid-twentieth century for his innovative use of daylight, which was an integral part of his architectural language. While the majority of his built work is in Finland and northern Europe, two of his buildings are located in the United States; in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at MIT and in Oregon, at Mt. Angel Abbey. During his career, Aalto designed 10 libraries, and a number of reading spaces within other buildings, spanning from Viipuri Library, in Vyborg Russia in 1935 to Mt. Angel Library in1970. Arguably the Mt Angel Library is his best, and it is certainly most sophisticated in terms of its luminous design.
The Mt. Angel Library has recently undergone repairs of its skylight and is once again in pristine condition. In celebration of this anniversary and to celebrate the role that this magnificently daylighted building has played in the lives of architecture students and faculty at the University of Oregon, and beyond, the 4th John Reynolds Symposium will focus on Aalto and light in architecture.
The symposium will launch on Friday with an evening keynote and reception in Portland at Nordic Northwest, and run the full day on Saturday at the Mount Angel Abbey Library, Mt Angel, Oregon.
Friday’s keynote speakers:
Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen and Jari Jetsonen
The Jetsonen’s have collaborated on numerous books and exhibitions on the architecture of Aalto. Their most recent book, Alvar Aalto Libraries, published in 2018 covers all of Aalto’s libraries and other book spaces such as the Academic Bookstore in Helsinki. Sirkkaliisa is an architect who teaches at Aalto University and Washington University. She works at the Finnish National Board of Antiquities. Jari is a photographer specializing in architectural works.
This School of Architecture & Environment event is sponsored by Nordic Northwest, the College of Design's Scandinavian Design Fund and the Department of Architecture Reynolds Symposium Fund.
6:00–8:00 p.m.
The Department of Art is proud to present the UO Art MFA Exhibition 2022 // Part 2
Agnese Cebere - Kara Clarke - Caroline Lichucki - Tyler Stoll
Opening Reception: Friday, May 20, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: May 21 – May 29
Hours: Friday—Sunday, noon–4:00 p.m.
Ditch Projects 303 S. 5th Ave #165 Springfield OR 97477
9:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
The year 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of the completion of Alvar Aalto’s Library at Mount Angel Abbey. After postponing this event due to the coronavirus, we will be celebrating this milestone and honoring the beautiful and impactful ways that Aalto made daylighting an integral part of his designs. Please join us for the 2022 Reynolds Symposium: Aalto : Light, in Portland and at the library in Mt. Angel, Oregon, May 20-21, 2022.
The Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto, has been named “a master of light.” His architecture is among the most well-regarded of the mid-twentieth century for his innovative use of daylight, which was an integral part of his architectural language. While the majority of his built work is in Finland and northern Europe, two of his buildings are located in the United States; in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at MIT and in Oregon, at Mt. Angel Abbey. During his career, Aalto designed 10 libraries, and a number of reading spaces within other buildings, spanning from Viipuri Library, in Vyborg Russia in 1935 to Mt. Angel Library in1970. Arguably the Mt Angel Library is his best, and it is certainly most sophisticated in terms of its luminous design.
The Mt. Angel Library has recently undergone repairs of its skylight and is once again in pristine condition. In celebration of this anniversary and to celebrate the role that this magnificently daylighted building has played in the lives of architecture students and faculty at the University of Oregon, and beyond, the 4th John Reynolds Symposium will focus on Aalto and light in architecture.
The Symposium will launch on Friday with an evening keynote and reception in Portland at Nordic Northwest, and run the full day on Saturday at the Mount Angel Abbey Library, Mt Angel, Oregon.
Saturday Speakers:
Juhani Pallasmaa
Professor Pallasmaa is one of Finland’s foremost architects and architectural theorists. He has taught at numerous universities in Finland and in the US. He has authored two dozen books and over 300 essays in 30 languages. He has frequently written on and lectured about the work of Alvar Aalto.
Tommi Lindh
Architect Tommi Lindh is the managing director of the Alvar Aalto Foundation. Prior to this he served as architect and keeper of antiquities at the Finnish National Board of Antiquities from 1998 to 2010. He has also had his own architectural practice.
William C. Miller
Prof. Wiliam “Bill” Miller is a graduate of the University of Oregon. He had a forty-plus year career as an architect and educator at three institutions—the University of Arizona, Kansas State University, and the University of Utah. He is also an internationally published scholar on the architecture of Aalto and other Nordic architects. His most recent publication is Nordic Modernism: Scandinavian Architecture 1890-2017.
Barbara Erwine
Barbara Erwine is an architectural consultant, educator, researcher and writer. Combining her early technical background as an analytical chemist with a mid-career switch to architecture, her design work celebrates the integration of passive design strategies with architectural place-making. Barbara's early focus on the use of natural light in buildings expanded to incorporate the wide range of sustainable design strategies as this fledgling field emerged in the early 1980's. She is the author of Creating Sensory Spaces: the Architecture of the Invisible.
Kent Duffy
Kent Duffy, FAIA, is an award-winning architect highly regarded for his innovations in sustainable design. He is a consulting principal at SRG Partnership in Portland Oregon. He received his BArch from University of Oregon. He was the project lead on the design of Annunciation Hall at Mt. Angel Abbey. He has collaborated with UO’s ESBL on a number of daylighted and passively conditioned buildings in the Northwest.
Brian Morin
Dr. Brian Morin, is Library Director at Mt Angel Abbey Library. He will speak about his experiences with the building.
Abbot Jeremy Driscoll
Abbot Jeremy is the 12th abbot of Mount Angel Abbey. He has taught theology at the seminary there and in Rome. He is the author of a number of books on theology. He has been a long time user of the library at Mount Angel, having been there during its construction.
This School of Architecture & Environment event is sponsored by Nordic Northwest, the College of Design"s Scandinavian Design Fund, and the Department of Architecture's Reynolds Symposium Fund.
10:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Many beautiful, affordable prints by students will be on sale for two days only!
Come enjoy browsing hand-pulled prints by various printmaking techniques. 50% of the proceed goes to the student artists, and the other 50% will be used to improve our printmaking studio environment and fund some activities for students.
3:30–7:00 p.m.
The School of Planning, Public Policy and Management (PPPM) at the University of Oregon, in conjunction with the PPPM Advisory Council, presents the following awards in the spring of each year.
The Distinguished Alumni Award is given to a graduate of the program (at any level) who has developed a distinguished reputation in his or her chosen field over an extended period of time. Recipients of the award will generally have received their degree at least 10 years prior to receipt of the award. Recipients may have received their degrees from any area of the department including predecessors of the current departmental configuration, such as Community Service and Public Affairs (CSPA). David Donaldson, a versatile and highly skilled city manager, is being honored as the Outstanding Alumni for 2022.
The Distinguished Recent Alumni Award is given to more recent graduates, usually within fewer than 10 years of graduation, who have shown extraordinary success within the period since finishing the University of Oregon degree. Attempts will be made to alternate awardees between the three programs of the department: the undergraduate degree and the three masters programs. Serena (Parcell) McGovern, Assistant Director of Safety and Security for Allegiant Global Partners, is being recognized as the Outstanding Recent Alumni.
The Award for Outstanding Service to Oregon is given to members of the general public who have given extraordinary service, over an extended period of time, to the state of Oregon. Ramón Ramirez, founder of Causa Oregon and Pineros y Campesino Unidos del Noroeste, will be presented with the Service to Oregon award.
The PPPM Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award is chosen by all PPPM students, in conjunction with a member of the PPPM Advisory Council, using criteria and selection procedures determined by those groups. Student volunteers are solicited in early spring to work with the PPPM Advisory Council representative, and the selection is made by mid-May and will be announced at the award ceremony.
4:00–5:30 p.m.
Dr. Elaine Scarry is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value in English at Harvard University.
The lecture will be on "Beauty and the Pact of Aliveness."
noon
Work-in-Progress talk with Emily Eliza Scott, Environmental Studies and History of Art and Architecture, and 2021–22 OHC Faculty Research Fellow.
This chapter of my monograph, Uneven Geology: Notes from the Field of Contemporary Art, examines art about air pollution, including the asymmetrical nature of its production, distribution, and effects. More broadly, the book—at the intersection of contemporary art history, critical geography, environmental humanities, and Anthropocene studies—explores art and design practices that track environmental violence as it is writ into land, air, and water. It asks how aesthetic practices help make largely invisible processes more sensible and legible, even while t
4:00 p.m.
Join us for the 2022 College of Design Commencement Ceremony on the Knight Library South Lawn (also known as Southwest Campus Green).
College of Design Commencement details are available on the College of Design website.
The application deadline for Spring 2023 exchange programs is June 15. The programs still open for applications include:
Akita International University, Japan Australian National University, Australia Charles University, Czech Republic Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Hokkaido University, Japan Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey University, Mexico Japan Women's University, Japan La Trobe University, Australia Nagoya University, Japan National Taiwan University, Taiwan National University of Singapore, Singapore Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea Singapore Management University, Singapore Sungshin University, Korea Tampere University, Finland Tohoku University, Japan Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico University of East Anglia, UK University of Edinburgh, UK University of Exeter, UK University of Latvia, Latvia University of Otago, New Zealand