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New artwork by Mia McCall.
9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
New artwork by Mia McCall.
9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
UNCOVERED is a solo exhibition featured at the Deparment of Art's Washburn Gallery. The exhibition's title is based on my interests in album covers driven by powerful photography, featuring the personal and expressive attitudes of music artists. This exhibition features a series of black and white portraits that uncover the much deeper stories of the photographed models.
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*Note: UO ID card with building access is required to gain entry to Washburn Gallery.*
9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
"Viridi Terra, Latin for green land, is an exhibition with a collective of artists working with natural elements to leverage their individual interests through the power of nature.”
Ella Maris, Kayla Lockwood, Cara Huato, Samantha Irina, and Jordan Hogan
5:15–6:15 p.m.
PIVOT Architecture in Eugene presents two drop-in information sessions about it's paid summer Fellowship. After a 2020 hiatus due to Covid, the opportunity is available for summer 2022! Students who will begin their final program year in fall 2022 earning their bachelor's or master's degree in Archicture and/or Interior Architecture are encouraged to come a session. In-person and remote options are available. Registration is not required.
Hosted by Scott Clarke, MArch '00, Associate, each session will include a presentation about the firm, its work, culture, and the Fellowship, with time for audience questions. The Fellowship application will open in early 2022 and includes a research proposal component, so students are encouraged to attend to learn more about requirements well ahead of applying.
In-Person Session:
Monday, October 25, 2021
5:15 - 6:15 pm PT
Lawrence Hall 206
Virtual Session:
Monday, November 8, 2021
5:15 - 6:15 pm PT
Zoom room
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84305468676?pwd=bHIxdVFHTEQzVjB0aG1DSW1sdERZdz09
Meeting ID: 843 0546 8676
Passcode: 177816
Hart Howerton, a team of planners, architects, landscape architects, and interior designers headquartered in New York and San Francisco with a network of domestic and international offices, is offering two free, virtual information sessions about their paid summer fellowship that includes sponsored travel.
Students are invited to drop in to learn more about the firm and the competitive Fellowship application process that's now open and closes January 18, 2022. Each session will consist of a brief introduction and overview by a firm representative, followed by time for questions/answers.
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Two options:
12:00 – 1:00 pm PT
Presenter: Flora Chen MLA ’18, Designer
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Phone Conference ID: 805 660 421#
5:15 – 6:15 pm PT
Presenter: Clayton Katsuyoshi BArch ’97, Sr. Associate
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Don't miss out on learning about this prestigious opportunity! Questions? Contact Miranda Duggan, HR Manager, Hart Howerton, at mduggan@harthowerton.com.
5:00–6:00 p.m.
"Viridi Terra, Latin for green land, is an exhibition with a collective of artists working with natural elements to leverage their individual interests through the power of nature.”
Ella Maris, Kayla Lockwood, Cara Huato, Samantha Irina, and Jordan Hogan
2:00 p.m.
Join artist Norma Vila Rivero, special guest Dessie Martinez, and Cheryl Hartup, curator of Tiempo suspendido | Suspended Time: Myrna Báez and Norma Vila Rivero, for a discussion of the exhibition and the relationship between figure and landscape in Puerto Rico. Q&A to follow.
4:00 p.m.
University of Oregon Fall 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research
Davis Family Lecture
This lecture will also live stream on the UO IS Media Services YouTube.
"Queer Morphologies & Digital Spirits" will share an overview of Huang's mixed media filmmaking career which interweaves live action, visual effects, puppetry and animation with his passion for folklore, mythology and queer futurism. The lecture will explore the process of world building and focus on the emergence of hybrid methodologies within one's visual practice. This talk will also explore how combining digital tools with performance can enable new forms of self-reinvention and the construction of digital identities.
Filmmaker and artist Andrew Thomas Huang crafts hybrid fantasy worlds and mythical dreamscapes. A Grammy-nominated music video director, Huang’s collaborators include Bjork, FKA Twigs and Thom Yorke among others. Serving as creative director for Bjork’s VR exhibition Bjork Digital, Huang created multiple immersive experiences for the pioneering traveling installation. His films have been commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Sydney Opera House and the Museum of Contemporary Art, LA. Inspired by his Chinese heritage and queer Asian mythology and folklore, Huang continues his foray into narrative with his first feature film TIGER GIRL which has received support from Film Independent and the Sundance Institute. Huang graduated with a degree in Fine Art and Animation from the University of Southern California.
This lecture is made possible by the Davis Family Endowed Fund in Art.
2:00–4:00 p.m.
In the 6th century, the circulation of silk and embroidered textiles with zoomorphic motifs, often enclosed in pearl medallions, influenced Eurasian art. Although they have been often mistaken as “Sasanian,” these textiles originated between Sogdiana and the western regions of China. However, only after the Islamization of Central Asia in the 8th century did these weavings evolve into new structures, and floral motifs were widely used to embellish or substitute the initial pearl medallions. By examining a group of 8th-9th-century weavings, which have recently appeared on the art market, in this paper, I discuss differences and variations between early and later structures and iconographic motifs. I argue that the Sogdian and Turko-Mongol trade might have also occurred beyond the main Silk Routes across the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. In Sichuan and the ancient Bactria (between the Hindukush and the Oxus River), original Sogdian compositions might have been acquired and transformed to suit the early Tibetan (Tubo) empire. This paper presents the first results of a new project titled Across the Tuyuhun-Tubo Kingdom: Visualizing Material Culture from Dunhuang to Sichuan between the 6thand 9th centuries, which was recently awarded the Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Early Career Fellowship 21-22.
Gasparini is Assistant Professor of Chinese Art and Architectural History.
noon
The talk, given by Joyce Cheng, will revolve around a chapter in her book-in-progress about the intersection of surrealism and anthropological research in the interwar period, The Persistence of Masks: Surrealism and the Ethnography of the Subject. She anticipates presenting this body of materials at the “Eccentric Primitivisms” colloquium at Johns Hopkins University, spring 2022.
3:00 p.m.
Live on Zoom - register here.
Obsidian is an enigmatic, naturally occurring glass that has been used by cultures from Europe and the Middle East to Oceania and the Americas. CFAR’s Catalytic Conversations serve the practices of individuals and institutions related to art, craft, and design, by providing an opportunity to engage a small group of thinkers in ways that contribute to a project or line of thinking that is in progress. This installment in the series will contribute to the development of an issue of Material Intelligence, a new digital publication published by the Chipstone Foundation. This Catalytic Conversation and related publication will include a broad range of perspectives on Obsidian, drawn from the fields of contemporary art, earth sciences, mesoamerican studies, archeology, and indigenous knowledge. Our goal is to consider this material as a nexus of concerns, ranging from the aesthetic to the ethical. Panelists: Glenn Adamson (Moderator, Independent Curator and Critic) David Carballo (Mesoamericanist, Boston University)Tom Connolly (Archeologist, University of Oregon) Anita Grunder (Earth Scientist, Oregon State U.) Monique Pean (NY-Based Artist/Jewelry Designer) Joe Scott (Siletz Tribal Educator)
noon
Mariachiara Gasparini, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, will give a talk about The Three/Four-Hare Circle: A Transcultural Symbol.
5:30 p.m.
Michael Schreffler is an Associate Professor, at Notre Dame specilaizing in 16th–17th Century Spain & Latin America. He is also the Associate Dean for the Artscult and will give a lecture on the images of the Virgin Mary (polychromed wooden statues) in 17c Spanish America.
Zoom Link: TBA
5:30 p.m.
Sun-Young Park is an Associate Professor at George Mason University.
She is a cultural and architectural historian who specializes in nineteenth-century France. Her research focuses on the ways in which architectural history, urban history, and the history of medicine intersect.
The lecture will be framed around her current research and book about: 19th-century disability and design.
Zoom Link: TBA