To limit the spread of COVID-19, most events are being 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, and research symposia. Most of these 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.
Material Explorations,
a few memos on planned obsolescence.
8.5 x 11 Boise paper, HP inkjet ink, double-sided tape
As objects and material enter my life and space, I am forced to deal with their presence and accumulation. Much of what arrives is destined for trash, secondary to what I’m really after. Forcing myself to observe the detritus of contemporary family life afforded small moments of care, inspiration, and even whimsy. Collectively, these materials and objects denote our shared industrial and consumerist histories. With individual care, however, these objects of planned obsolescence gather, hold, and project individual meaning.
New work by Emma DeRosia, Eva Emter, and Laneate Vang.
The School of Architecture & Environment Career & Networking Fair is virtual this year! If you're an SAE major, this Fair is for you to meet a variety of firms, explore career paths, and make professional connections.
Not sure how? Come to this informal prep session! Hosted by Kristin Grieger, Senior Instructor and Career Advisor, and Cindy Lundeen, Manager of Professional Outreach, this session will give a brief overview of how to navigate a virtual career fair and provide tips for engaging with the professionals, with time for Q/A. All levels of SAE majors are welcome!
https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/94766782796
Virtual information session to provide further details on the Graduate Programs within the School of Architecture and Environment (Historic Preservation, Interior Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Architecture) and their application process at both our Eugene and Portland campuses.
Please register here: Information Session Registration
Once individuals have registered, a link to the virtual session will be sent out as a confirmation a couple of days before the event.
For futher information, please contact, Jessica Wu at jwu21@uoregon.edu.
Study abroad and earn UO credit in Aix-en-Provence, France. Attend this virtual info session to learn more. Applications for the "Museums as Living Archives of Public Policy in Aix-en-Provence and Paris" are now open.
This program begins June 12, 2021 and runs until June 20, 2021.
For more information about study abroad, read the FAQs or contact an advisor.
During this unprecedented sports season, we invite you to step inside the design of sport and learn how faculty and students in the College of Design are adapting and reimagining sports product design during COVID-19 and the transition to a remote learning environment.
Join us for a conversation with Susan Sokolowski, PhD, Associate Professor; Founding Director, Sports Product Design Program and Wilson W. Smith III, Instructor, Department of Product Design and Design Director at Nike, Inc.
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Susan will share the innovative work currently happening in the Sports Product Design program and we’ll hear from Wilson about the Adaptive Athlete’s Studio—from its inception, until now, highlighting some of the best work that’s come out of the program. Students in these programs will share their first-hand experience.
Featuring:
Susan Sokolowski, PhD, Associate Professor; Founding Director, Sports Product Design Program
Wilson W. Smith III (BArch, ’80), Instructor, Department of Product Design, Design Director at Nike, Inc.
Questions?
If you have questions about this event, please contact Stewardship and Donor Services at stewardship@uoregon.edu.
Hear micro-presentations from various UO staff, student groups, and faculty members, talking about what they are doing to make our university more sustainable. The winter 2021 subjects and speakers are:
Sustainable Business Minor, Michael Russo, Lundquist Professor of Sustainable Management, and Ryan Cabinte, program manager for Center for Sustainable Business Practices
Sustainability Data Dashboard, Steve Mital and Cimmeron Gillespie, Office of Sustainability
Current Research, Emily Eliza Scott, Assistant Professor of Art History and Environmental Studies
Global Leadership Challenge, Grace Honeywell, Global Engagement Program Coordinator
Envision magazine, Ceili Cornelius
Each presentation will be about five minutes long and include a short time for questions from the audience. After the presentations, attendees will have the chance to chat with the speakers in breakout rooms.
RSVP here. The organizer will follow-up with a Zoom link and a calendar invitation (if requested).
"(Over)Thinking of Your Pleasures" by Lily Brennan
Thoughts on interpersonal pleasures and how they create evolutions on identities. I’ve discovered my own transitioning through the scope of vivid dreams, all the while contemplating the relationships I held within a truer reality.
First winter, followed the first fall, that followed the first summer in Eugene.
A fall that lingers in memory, covered in ash.
Ash- the remnants that warmed me, shifting with intention, sustain me until spring.
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Anastasiya Gutnik
www.sokolikart.com
IG: @Sokolikart
SMOKE//MIRROR is a series of abstract paintings inspired by smoke,
water, gems, and plant life by Noel Strohm.
Get Practice Video Interview Experience with Guest Employer:
Marnie Petek, Marnie, Sales Recruiting Manager, Western Region, E & J Gallo Winery
The University Career Center's practice interview program is a safe place to practice interview skills, gain confidence and receive interview feedback from an experienced hiring professional. Guest employers volunteer their time to interview students and provide them with immediate feedback on their interviewing skills. Interviews are 30 minutes in length: 20 minutes for the interview and 10 minutes for immediate feedback from the interviewer. Students will not be interviewing for a specific position but should be prepared to respond to general behavior interview questions. You DO NOT have to have specific interest in the organization in order to participate--the goal is to get practice interviewing.
Why Sign-up for a Practice Interview?
Knowing what to expect and how to prepare will lead to successful future interviews. Success begins with preparation.
You will receive immediate interview feedback from our guest employer and professional hiring manager.
Practice makes better! Get a jump start on your job search, boost your interview skills and increase your chances for a successful interview the next time you're in front of an employer.
Interviewing Tips and Resources – Interview with Confidence
Career Center resources: https://career.uoregon.edu/interviewing-tips-and-resources
Career Center’s Big Interview – a new free online interviewing program that combines training and practice to help improve your interview technique and build confidence. Click “Register” button and use your “@uoregon.edu” email address to access: https://uoregon.biginterview.com
Handshake's "How to Make a Good Impression in a Virtual Job Interview”: https://learn.joinhandshake.com/students/how-to-make-a-good-impression-in-a-virtual-job-interview/
Sign-up for Practice Interviews in Handshake:
Sign in to Handshake with your Duck ID and upload your resume if you have not done so yet.
Under “Jobs” select “On-Campus Interviews” then search by organization name or key words.
Select the practice interview position, review position and sign-up deadlines. Attach resumes submit and sign-up for a 30-minute interview time slot provided.
THIS IS A PRACTICE INTERVIEW and is a program of the University Career Center's Campus Recruiting Program. Missing a scheduled practice interview is unprofessional and guarantees disqualification from Handshake privileges. View Policies here for more information (http://career.uoregon.edu/about/programs/campus-recruiting/policies).
Please contact Tina Haynes if you have questions about this opportunity.
Tina Haynes, Employer Engagement Coordinator
UO Career Center | thaynes@uoregon.edu
Visiting Artist Lecture Series presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research
Lectures are live on Zoom with registration and will also livestream on the Department of Art Facebook.
Jillian Mayer shares her works and ideas that speak to the fluid nature of her process as an artist. Identity formation, experience, digital vs analog environments, value, legacy, and dependency are just some of the themes that will likely be discussed. Mayer hopes this will be somewhat entertaining.
Jillian Mayer’s practice—spanning videos, sculptures, painting, photography, performances, and interactive installations—reflects upon how new technologies affect our sociality, bodies, identities, and conceptions of self. Throughout her work, Mayer models how to subvert capital-driven modes of technological innovation. By investigating the points of tension between our physical and virtual worlds, Mayer makes work that seeks to inhabit the increasingly porous boundary between the two.
Mayer has exhibited internationally at venues including MoMA and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, and The New York Times. She is an alum of the Sundance Institute's New Frontiers Lab and a recipient of the Creative Capital Fellowship.
New Work by Ellie Reisman
Get Practice Video Interview Experience with Guest Employer:
Tina Ford, Talent Acquisition Specialist, General Merchandising, Kroger
The University Career Center's practice interview program is a safe place to practice interview skills, gain confidence and receive interview feedback from an experienced hiring professional. Guest employers volunteer their time to interview students and provide them with immediate feedback on their interviewing skills. Interviews are 30 minutes in length: 20 minutes for the interview and 10 minutes for immediate feedback from the interviewer. Students will not be interviewing for a specific position but should be prepared to respond to general behavior interview questions. You DO NOT have to have specific interest in the organization in order to participate--the goal is to get practice interviewing.
Why Sign-up for a Practice Interview?
Knowing what to expect and how to prepare will lead to successful future interviews. Success begins with preparation.
You will receive immediate interview feedback from our guest employer and professional hiring manager.
Practice makes better! Get a jump start on your job search, boost your interview skills and increase your chances for a successful interview the next time you're in front of an employer.
Interviewing Tips and Resources – Interview with Confidence
Career Center resources: https://career.uoregon.edu/interviewing-tips-and-resources
Career Center’s Big Interview – a new free online interviewing program that combines training and practice to help improve your interview technique and build confidence. Click “Register” button and use your “@uoregon.edu” email address to access: https://uoregon.biginterview.com
Handshake's "How to Make a Good Impression in a Virtual Job Interview”: https://learn.joinhandshake.com/students/how-to-make-a-good-impression-in-a-virtual-job-interview/
Sign-up for Practice Interviews in Handshake:
Sign in to Handshake with your Duck ID and upload your resume if you have not done so yet.
Under “Jobs” select “On-Campus Interviews” then search by organization name or key words.
Select the practice interview position, review position and sign-up deadlines. Attach resumes submit and sign-up for a 30-minute interview time slot provided.
THIS IS A PRACTICE INTERVIEW and is a program of the University Career Center's Campus Recruiting Program. Missing a scheduled practice interview is unprofessional and guarantees disqualification from Handshake privileges. View Policies here for more information (http://career.uoregon.edu/about/programs/campus-recruiting/policies).
Please contact Tina Haynes if you have questions about this opportunity.
Tina Haynes, Employer Engagement Coordinator
UO Career Center | thaynes@uoregon.edu
Presenting a part of her master's thesis, Zoey Kambour visually explores the unique illumination style found in the Osma Beatus and asks if the creation of this style is a result of the socio-political events in the Northern Iberian Peninsula in the late eleventh century. Through visual analysis of the individual stylistic elements in the manuscript, she demonstrates that this retention of the native style woven into Roman illumination style reflects the response the Leonese Christian community had to the forced move from the Visigothic to Roman rite.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research
Lectures are live on Zoom with registration and will also livestream on the Department of Art Facebook.
My installations meticulously cultivate the mechanisms and peculiarities of human cognition in response to uncertainty. They trigger embedded root sociological, anthropological, architectural and scientific cues through furniture, ergonomics, space, light and haunting animal activity. This stagecraft of untethering is designed to produce an expansive sense of empathy and investigation. Questions frame reality. What are the borders between science, nature and superstition? Is an object the cure or the disease? How do social protocols for the domestic, sacred or scientific intersect? Through these encounters with the unknown, viewers construct their understanding, a process psychologists call apophenia. – Laura Fritz, 2020
Laura Fritz is a Portland-based artist who works with a range of media, including, sculpture, video, and light. Her immersive installations explore the cognition of uncertainty. Her work Alvarium 2, currently on display in Laura Fritz/Rick Silva: Encounters at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Eugene) presents a mysterious structure inhabited by a spectral swarm of bees. Recently, her Apex Series solo show at the Portland Art Museum explored surreal architecture, swarms, and the psychology of cognition. She has also exhibited at the Des Moines Art Center, Reed College, Portland; Soil, Seattle; Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey; University of Oregon, Portland; and the Couture Stipend Series at the New American Art Union in Portland. Fritz received an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in the Visual Arts (2014). She holds a BFA from Drake University, and also attended the Pacific Northwest College of Art (CE program), Portland.
Co-sponsored by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and the Department of Art.
Rather than crediting the unique character of American industrial design to designers’ exceptional ingenuity or to consumers’ idiosyncratic tastes, Carma Gorman, author of the forthcoming book Exceptional: How US Law Shaped American Industrial Design, traces the distinctive traits of American industrial design to the unusual constraints and affordances of US intellectual property, liability, environmental, energy, trade, and tax laws.
Join the Department of the History of Art and Architecture for this year's Haseltine Lecture, with special guest Carma Gorman of the University of Texas at Austin.
Rather than crediting the unique character of American industrial design to designers’ exceptional ingenuity or to consumers’ idiosyncratic tastes, Carma Gorman, author of the forthcoming book Exceptional: How US Law Shaped American Industrial Design, traces the distinctive traits of American industrial design to the unusual constraints and affordances of US intellectual property, liability, environmental, energy, trade, and tax laws.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series presented by the Department of ARt and Center for Art Research
Lectures are live on Zoom with registration and will also livestream on the Department of Art Facebook.
Hamza Walker is the Director of LAXART, an independent nonprofit art space in Los Angeles. From 1994–2016, he was the Director of Education and Associate Curator at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, a non-collecting museum devoted to contemporary art. He recently curated Postcommodity: Some Reach While Others Clap(2020), the two person exhibition Outside/In (Phil Peters and Karen Reimer) (2019), Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Relax Into the Invisible (co-curated with Catherine Taft) (2019), Marie Voignier, Tinselwood (2019), the group exhibition Sperm Cult and Sol LeWitt: Page-works 1967-2007 both in 2018.
This lecture is made possible by the Critical Conversations | Inside Oregon Art program, a partnership between the Ford Family Foundation and the University of Oregon Department of Art's Center for Art Research.
Are you getting ready to graduate and aren't sure what path you'll take next? The Oregon Spring Career Fair is your chance to connect with employers who are hiring career opportunities NOW! This virtual event is a collaboration between the University of Oregon and Oregon State University and is an all-majors fair. Check out the list of employers through Handshake.
Are you passionate about entertainment or the arts? Do you want to forge a career path in communications? Connect with employers in communications, entertainment, the arts, and related fields to learn about career opportunities in a casual, fun “speed dating”-style event on Tuesday, May 4, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Over the course of the event, you’ll have a chance to meet a new employer every few minutes! Register on Handshake!
Visiting Artist Lecture Series presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research
Lectures are live on Zoom with registration and will also livestream on the Department of Art Facebook.
Mario will discuss some of his past projects and discuss the important role of the individual and collaborative artist in relationship to creating and in finding ways to tell one's family's stories and other marginalized narratives that have guided his artistic practice. He will engage audiences in creative strategies/tools for thinking and making Art.
Mario Ybarra Jr., is a visual and performance artist, educator, and activist who combines street culture with fine art in order to produce what he calls “contemporary art that is filtered through a Mexican-American experience in Los Angeles.” His work has been included in many group exhibitions, including Installations Inside/Out: Armory 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California; San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; and Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (2008). He is co-founder of an artist run organization located in the Harbor area of Los Angeles, called Slanguage Studio (2002-present).
This lecture is made possible by the George and Matilda Fowler Endowment Fund.