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Commencement Information
Art and Technology BFA group, Hyperplum, presents "Swerve" curated by Lucy Miller from the History of Art and Architecture Department (Master's Candidate 2018).
The College of Design Student Services Office, in partnership with the School of Architecture & Environment, is holding its annual Career Symposium on Thursday, April 26, 2018, all day in the UO White Stag building in Portland, OR. This mentoring and networking event features professional-led roundtable sessions on various career-related topics. Open to majors in the School of Architecture & Environment.
An event celebrating independent publishing, featuring artists and makers from UO and beyond. surround yourself with original art, literature, comics, zines, poetry, etc etc etc! Engage with free workshops, network with other artists, and take home some sick publications.
Interested in tabling with us or getting involved? Independent makers, student groups and collabs are all welcome! Contact us for more information.
“Design Think, On Your Feet” will be presented by Wilson W. Smith III, (BArch ’80), Senior Designer and DNA Design Specialist at Nike. Wilson explores the role of design thinking from the feet up, to enhance creative expression, with the goal of a rich quality of life for all. As a senior designer for 34 years at Nike, Smith has witnessed and played a role in the significant cultural evolution and footwear design expressions of the athletic industry. Smith has led the creation of products for some of the greatest athletes in Nike’s history, including Andre Agassi, Serena Williams, and Michael Jordan. In addition, his projects of passion engage athletes of all abilities. Wilson speaks about the necessary spark, exploration, and mix required in design thinking, to best express design solutions, that feature focus and empathy to the end-users needs.
This event is presented in conjunction with the 2018 Ellis F. Lawrence Medal—the College of Design’s highest honor—awarded to Mr. Smith this spring.
Art & Technology BFA group, Hyperplum, presents "Swerve" curated by Lucy Miller from the Department of the History of Art and Architecture (Master's Candidate 2018).
Davis Family Lecture
Anna Sew Hoy: “Psychic Body Grotto and Sculpture Outdoors”
Anna Sew Hoy lives and works in Los Angeles. She has produced solo projects at the Aspen Art Museum in 2015 and the San Jose Museum of Art in 2011. She has exhibited at the Hammer Museum, LAXART, and Various Small Fires, Los Angeles; Koenig & Clinton, NY; and the 2008 California Biennial among others. Her work is in the collections of the Hammer Museum, SFMOMA, LACMA, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. Sew Hoy was awarded a Creative Capital Grant for Visual Arts in 2015, the California Community Foundation Grant for Emerging Artists in 2013 and the United States Artists Broad Fellowship in 2006. She received her MFA from Bard College in 2008.
This lecture is made possible by the Davis Family Fund.
FULLER CENTER FOR PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPES 2018 LECTURE:
"Designing for Resilience, Equity and Democracy"
Gina Ford, FASLA
Principal and Co-Founder
Agency Landscape + Planning
With the onslaught of challenges (and opportunities) associated with climate change, significant demographic shifts and increased political activism, what is the role of the landscape architect in designing for such change? Gina will discuss a series of projects at a variety of scales where landscape is a medium and catalyst for addressing resilience, equity and democratic action.
Reception: 5:30 pm
Lecture: 6:00 pm
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Gina Ford is a landscape architect, co-founder and principal of Agency Landscape + Planning. Underpinning her two decades of practice are a commitment to the design and planning of public places and the perpetuation of the value of landscape architecture via leadership, exhibitions, teaching, writing and lecturing.
Gina’s work encompasses a wide range of scales and project types, from public parks and plazas to large-scale landscape planning and waterfront projects. She brings to each project a passion for the process of making vibrant landscape spaces—from the conceptual design to the details of implementation—with a particular focus on the life and use of urban, public environments. Gina led the design of the Chicago Riverwalk, Boston’s Lawn on D, Council Bluff’s Tom Hanafan Rivers Edge Park and Raleigh’s Moore Square and strategic planning efforts including the Cedar Rapids Flood Recovery Planning, the Rebuild by Design Competition and the Changing Course Competition while a principal with Sasaki.
Her work has received awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects, among others. She is on the board of directors for the Cultural Landscape Foundation and was the recipient of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Charles Eliot Travelling Fellowship and Wellesley College’s Shaw Fellowship.
The Fuller Center for Productive Landscapes, a program of the University of Oregon’s Department of Landscape Architecture, is a living laboratory for exploring the role of place in cultural sustainability. Learn more at http://blogs.uoregon.edu/fullercenter/. The Fuller Lecture is presented by the UO Department of Landscape Architecture through the generous support of Sue Langfitt Fuller, BS ’71 and Mortimer B. Fuller, III.
Andrew Lavallee, Principal at Siteworks, will be visiting the Overlook Seminar to share how landscape operations and maintenance has allowed Siteworks to engage landscapes in different ways than the conventional business model. Maintenance is intimately tied to the resiliency of landscape, and he will share the firm's experience working on a variety of projects including the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Hunter’s Point and the Houston Botanic Garden.
This event is open to University of Oregon students, faculty, and staff.
Visit the College of Design and learn about our dynamic programs in art, architecture, product design, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, art and technology, planning, nonprofit management, and more.
You’ll hear from faculty members and advising staff about the programs of interest to you and have a chance to tour our facilities in this special interest session. You can ask questions about becoming a major, the application process, and courses of interest to you.
This is a drop in session for interested students and families.
Also available is the University of Oregon's spring Duck Days, the campus visit program for prospective students and their families. Whether you are a junior just beginning your college search, a recently admitted senior finalizing your college selection, or a transfer student, don't miss this opportunity. The Duck Days program offers presentations, advising information, and tours for prospective students and their families.
The College of Design’s interest session is included in the Duck Days schedule of events.
You can register for the UO Duck Days using the online sign up and choose the date that works best for you.
Artists participating in Discursive will mark the closing of the exhibition and launch of a related publication by convening a conversation with the public about concerns related to their work. In this open forum, exhibiting artists and special guests will seed conversation in ways that examine work, related fields, and the things that found individual practices. Following this event, visiting professor Noah Breuer will facilitate a printmaking workshop related to his work.
Florian Idenburg is an internationally renowned architect and founder of SO–IL in 2008 together with Jing Liu.
Idenburg’s practice is collaborative; he believes that innovation is only possible through working together. He has a particularly strong background in cultural spaces, overseeing projects from a temporary installation in MoMA PS1’s courtyard, called Pole Dance, to the recently completed Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis.
This lecture will also be presented in Portland on Tuesday, May 1.
Printmaking and Fibers areas in the Department of Art host our annual fundraising sale. Here's your chance to view and acquire beautiful fine art prints and fiber arts produced by students at very affordable prices! A part of the proceeds will fund our studios. Hope to see you there.
Florian Idenburg is an internationally renowned architect and founder of SO–IL in 2008 together with Jing Liu.
Idenburg’s practice is collaborative; he believes that innovation is only possible through working together. He has a particularly strong background in cultural spaces, overseeing projects from a temporary installation in MoMA PS1’s courtyard, called Pole Dance, to the recently completed Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis.
This lecture will also be presented in Eugene on Monday, April 30.
The College of Design will create a collaborative art display showing the progression of freedom of expression at the UO. The exhibit will explore peoples’ right to seek, receive, and impart information in the form of art.
People interested in participating should meet in the Lawrence Hall Courtyard at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 2.
Don't miss the second event with the College of Design, Ecologies of Memory with Sara Zewde on May 4th.
Laurence Cotton will be hosting a public screening of the PBS film, "Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America," for which he served as principal researcher and consulting producer. Following the 60 minute film, he will elaborate further on Olmsted’s remarkable life and career, and go into further detail about both the national Olmsted legacy and the considerable Olmsted landscape legacy in the Pacific Northwest – in Portland, Seattle and Spokane, as well as on numerous college campuses throughout the region.
Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America is a co-production of WNED-TV, Buffalo/Toronto and Florentine Films/Hott Productions Inc.
Event is Free of Charge
Carolyn Dean presents "A Stone, a Story, a Sculpture: Collaconcho in Context"
Inka (Inca) stone carving as practiced on immobile boulders and outcroppings of rock, located outdoors and often in highly public locations, has proved challenging to art historical analysis. Its mostly austere, abstract forms resist interpretation. Focusing on one of the better documented examples of stone carving—an impressive outcrop named Collaconcho by the Inkas—Dean considers the significance of specific abstract forms, as well as the ways meaning was achieved through the juxtaposition of the outcrop with other worked stones in Collaconcho’s environs. It will be suggested that, for Collaconcho and others like it, stone carving addressed imperial concerns regarding potentially resistant populations, but did so indirectly, employing visual analogy and what Dean identifies as an “empathetic perspective.”
Carolyn Dean, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, studies Andean, particularly Inka, visual and performance culture both before and after Spanish colonization. She is interested in how the arts embed various, often-conflicting ontologies and how indigenous perspectives have been ignored, dismissed, and misconstrued from colonial times through the present. She has published numerous articles and two books: Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ (Duke University Press, 1999) and A Culture of Stone (Duke University Press, 2010).
The College of Design is hosting a second event for the Freedom of Expression series on Friday, May 4 with a lecture by Sara Zewde. Sara is a landscape architect and planner with Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) in Seattle. She will discuss typologies of memorial, cultural memory and the First Amendment.
Ashley Dawson, author of Extinction: A Radical History, will speak about his newest book, Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change (Verso, 2018).
How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion’s share of carbon to the atmosphere, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels. Today, the majority of the world’s megacities are located in coastal zones, yet few of them are adequately prepared for the floods that will increasingly menace their shores. Instead, most continue to develop luxury waterfront condos for the elite and industrial facilities for corporations. These not only intensify carbon emissions, but also place coastal residents at greater risk when water levels rise.
In Extreme Cities, Dawson offers an alarming portrait of the future of our cities, describing the efforts of Staten Island, New York, and Shishmareff, Alaska residents to relocate; Holland’s models for defending against the seas; and the development of New York City before and after Hurricane Sandy. Our best hope lies not with fortified sea walls, he argues. Rather, it lies with urban movements already fighting to remake our cities in a more just and equitable way.
About the speaker:
Ashley Dawson is the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities at the Princeton Environmental Institute.
Crystal Z Campbell: “Lost and Found: The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Regret”
Crystal Z Campbell considers the internet as the site in which everything and nothing can be erased––prompting questions about what stories these digitally curated remains can reveal for progeny. Campbell's creative practice uses found footage or historical references, often gleaned from both tangible archives and internet sources. These narratives of yesteryear are often processed through film, light, sound, performance, installation, ceramics, painting, writing, and community projects to interrogate present notions of justice and the politics of witnessing. Most recently, Campbell has investigated Henrietta Lacks' immortal cell line, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, and gentrification. Campbell uses art as a tool for transmitting historical memory, time-travel, and proposing social change.
Crystal Z Campbell is an interdisciplinary artist and writer of African-American, Filipino & Chinese descents. Campbell's work has been exhibited and screened internationally: ICA Philadelphia (US), Artericambi (IT), Artissima (IT), Studio Museum of Harlem (US), Futura Contemporary (CZ), Project Row Houses in Texas (US), Children's Museum of San Diego (US), Art Rotterdam (NL), de Appel Arts Centre (NL) and SculptureCenter (US) amongst others. Selected honors and awards include Pollock-Krasner MacDowell Colony Fellow, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten, Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program Van Lier Fellowship, Sommerakademie Paul Klee, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Mondriaan Fonds, Fondazione Ratti and a recent Smithsonian Fellowship. Campbell is a currently a second-year Tulsa Artist Fellow in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Brian Jencek, Senior Principal @ HOK will present on the firm's planning and urban design work which spans architectural urbanism, environmental planning and landscape architecture. HOK’s urban planners and designers create sustainable cities, towns, campuses, parks and transit-oriented communities by following a place-based, integrated systems approach to inform their master plans and urban design strategies. Using biomimicry to inform their solutions, they look to the “genius of the place” — the native species, ecologies and cultures — for design inspiration, performance measures and time-tested resiliency strategies.
The Suicide Prevention Team and the University Counseling Center (UCC) offers this faculty and staff suicide prevention training. You will learn how to recognize suicide warning signs and how to intervene effectively in order to steer at-risk students toward professional help. Please register in advance using this link.
Professor Kate Mondloch will talk about her newest book, A Capsule Aesthetic: Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art. The book examines three artists, Pipilotti Rist, Patricia Piccinini, and Mariko Mori, and the ways they address technology in their work. Mondloch lends unique insight into new media and new materialism through a feminist theory lens that allows for more exposure of human and non-human interactions.
Books by Design occurs once per term and features the work of a faculty member from the College of Design.
Immerse yourself inside a 16th century gothic prayer bead that fits inside the palm of your hand and explore the intricate carvings made visible through the power of micro-computed tomography (CT scanning) and virtual reality. Produced by the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab (CFC Media Lab) and Seneca College School of Creative Arts and Animation, this collaboration between AGO Conservator Lisa Ellis, and Interactive Artist/Designer Priam Givord marks the first time anyone will be able to move through, around and within one of these small wonders.
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This lecture is part of a series of one-day only events:
Q&A Session with Sasha at 1:00pm | Engaging Museum Audiences with Medieval Miniatures
Guest Lecture Event at 5:30pm | Small Wonders, Huge Success: Curating Medieval Sculpture in a Modern World
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2017 MUSE Award from the American Museums Association
Special thanks to the following units for their support: College of Design Dean’s Office, Gaston Bequest, and the Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities.
Please join us for a Q&A session on museum and curatorial studies!
Sasha Suda presents "Engaging Museum Audiences with Medieval Miniatures".
Students are invited to visit with Sasha and learn more about her musuem and curating experiences. Coffee and snacks will be provided!
This event is based on Sasha’s recent work at the Art Gallery of Ontario Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures, which is a groundbreaking exhibition of more than 60 boxwood miniatures.
This Q&A session is part of a series of one-day only events:
Guest Lecture Event at 5:30pm | Small Wonders, Huge Success: Curating Medieval Sculpture in a Modern World
Small Wonders: The VR Experience
Sasha Suda, who holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, joined the Art Galley of Ontario in 2011 as Assistant Curator, European Art. She was promoted first to Associate Curator, European in 2013, then Curator and R. Fraser Elliott Chair, Print & Drawing Council in 2015, and took on the additional role of Interim Curator of European Art in April 2016. Sasha has also been key to integrating our very special Thomson Collection of European Art into the AGO’s broader program through research and advocacy.
Sasha Suda presents "Small Wonders, Huge Success: Curating Medieval Sculpture in a Modern World.”
Marvels of human ingenuity, so small they can fit in the palm of your hand, miniature boxwood carvings from the early 1500s have long remained a mystery. Offering new insight into the methods of production and cultural significance of these awe-inspiring works of art, this lecture highlights more than four years of research that has used cutting-edge technology to understand these elegantly precise miniature rosaries, prayer beads and altarpieces.
This lecture event is based on Sasha’s recent exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures, which is a groundbreaking exhibition of more than 60 boxwood miniatures organized in partnership with The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rijksmuseum.
This lecture is part of a series of one-day only events:
Q&A Session with Sasha at 1pm | Engaging Museum Audiences with Medieval Miniatures
Small Wonders: The VR Experience
Sasha Suda, who holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, joined the Art Galley of Ontario in 2011 as Assistant Curator, European Art. She was promoted first to Associate Curator, European in 2013, then Curator and R. Fraser Elliott Chair, Print & Drawing Council in 2015, and took on the additional role of Interim Curator of European Art in April 2016. Sasha has also been key to integrating our very special Thomson Collection of European Art into the AGO’s broader program through research and advocacy.
Morehshin Allahyari: “On Digital Colonialism and Monstrosity”
Morehshin Allahyari is an artist, activist, educator, and occasional curator. She is the recipient of the leading global thinkers of 2016 award by Foreign Policy magazine. Allahyari was born and raised in Iran and moved to the United States in 2007. Her work deals with the political, social, and cultural contradictions we face every day. She thinks about technology as a philosophical toolset to reflect on objects and as a poetic means to document our personal and collective lives struggles in the 21st century. Allahyari is currently an artist in residence at Eyebeam’s one-year Research Residency (2016-2017) in NYC where she is developing a new body of work on Digital Colonialism and ‘re-Figuring’ as a Feminism and de-colonialism practice, using 3D scanners and 3D printers as her tools of investigation. Researching dark goddesses, monstrous, and djinn female figures of Middle-Eastern origin, Allahyari devises a narrative through practices of magic and poetic-speculative storytelling, re-appropriation of traditional mythologies, collaging, meshing, scanning, and archiving.
Allahyari has been part of numerous exhibitions, festivals, and workshops around the world including Venice Biennale di Archittectura, Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, Tate Modern, Queens Museum, Pori Museum, Powerhouse Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Jeu de Paume, Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Museum für Angewandte Kunst. She has been an artist in residence at BANFF Centre (2013), Carnegie Mellon University’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry (2015), Autodesk Pier9 Workshop in San Francisco (2015), and the Vilém Flusser Residency Program for Artistic Research in association with Transmediale, Berlin (2016). Her work has been featured in the New YorkTimes, Huffington Post, Wired, National Public Radio, Parkett Art Magazine, Frieze, Rhizome, Hyperallergic, and Al Jazeera, among others.
Make your application stand out from the rest. Attend this workshop to learn how to browse Volunteer openings, find the right program, and strengthen your application. You will have an opportunity to ask questions about service, learn steps you can take to improve your chances, and gain valuable tips to guide you through the application process.
The School of Planning, Public Policy and Management invites you to our annual Awards Ceremony on Thursday, May 24, 2018.
The PPPM Spring Awards Ceremony is an opportunity to recognize leadership in service to Oregon, a distinguished alumnus or alumna, and a recent alumnus or alumna with various themes and connections that can be further developed to enhance the reputation and recognition of the school. The event also showcases our graduate student research through a display of poster panels.
Event attendees include PPPM graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, professionals, alumni, PPPM advisory board members plus organizations that work with the honorees.
For a complete list of awards presented and past award recipients, visit our Alumni Awards webpage.
Please mark your calendar, we hope to see you there!
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
3:00-4:00 | IPRE Launch and Panel
4:00-5:00 | Student Showcase
5:00-6:00 | Recognition and Awards Ceremony
Award presentations:
Outstanding Service to Oregon
Terry McDonald, Executive Director of St. Vincent DePaul of Lane County
Distinguished Alumnus
Andre Le Duc, Chief Resilience Officer and Associate Vice President
Outstanding Recent Alumna
Amanda West, Mercy Corps
School Service Awards
PPPM Outstanding Teacher of the Year
Student Research Poster Awards
6:00 | Reception
The College of Design School of Art + Design is pleased to present the 2018 Spring Storm. Graduating seniors in Art, Art & Technology, and Product Design will exhibit their work throughout Lawrence Hall for this 6th annual end-of-year senior show on view from Monday, June 11 with an opening reception from 4:00-6:00pm though June 18. Open weekdays from 9:00am-5:00pm.
Students, friends, and familes –Please mark your calendar and Save the Date for our annual PPPM Pre-Commencement Reception to honor the graduating class of 2018.
The Sunday reception by Hendricks Hall is a PPPM school-only event with graduating students’ families and friends, and recognition of each cohort, plus a few student awards. The reception is a relaxing time to celebrate accomplishments plus opportunities to socialize and make introductions to faculty. Don’t forget to bring your camera and snap a photo of your graduate!
For more details regarding the spring event, please check out our Commencement Information webpage.
Join us for the 2018 College of Design Commencement Ceremony and the presentation of the Ellis F. Lawrence Medal.
College of Design Commencement details are available on the College of Design website.
There will be a reception prior to the College of Design ceremony from 1:00-3:00 p.m. in the Lawrence Hall Courtyard. We encourage students to bring their families and friends to engage and mingle with faculty and fellow students.