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.
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Billboard at 510 Oak Ester Partegàs: Building Blocks On View: February through April, 2025 at 510 Oak Street, Eugene, OR 97403
Ester Partegàs (Barcelona, 1972) has shown extensively nationally and internationally. Most recent shows include The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2025), Ballroom Marfa (2024), TEA Tenerife (2023), Palazzo Delle Exposizione, Rome (2023) NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid (2022); Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2021); Essex Flowers, NY (2021); Pure Joy, Marfa TX (2020); Conde Duque, Madrid (2020); The Drawing Center, NY (2019); the Museum of the City of NY (2019); Transborder Biennial/Bienal Transfronteriza, El Paso Museum of Art + Museo de Arte Ciudad Juárez (2018), MACBA Barcelona (2018).
She has been the recipient of the 2022-2023 Rome Prize for Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome, a 2014 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, and a 2004 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2004), among others. An artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX; MacDowell. She has been faculty at the Yale School of Art, Skowhegan, Virginia Commonwealth University, SUNY Purchase, and since 2017 teaches at Parsons School of Design. Based in New York City, she is a part-time resident of Marfa, TX, and Barcelona.
7:00 a.m.–11:00 p.m.
Visit the McMillan Gallery for an exhibition featuring work from our talented Printmaking students at the University of Oregon. Anywhere from relief to screen print, this annual show features a variety of works from student artists. Join us for refreshments and meet the artists on April 17th from 6pm-7pm. On view in the McMillan Gallery March 18th, 2025 to May 16th, 2025.
Learn about UO's Resource Assistance for Rural Environments AmeriCorps program and how to become a Member.
4:00–5:00 p.m.
Learn about UO's Resource Assistance for Rural Environments AmeriCorps program and how to become a Member.
4:00 p.m.
University of Oregon Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research
Erin Espelie will discuss how her film practice evolved from her time in a virology lab to her editorial role at Natural History magazine, based at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She will show several short films and discuss her two feature films, The Lanthanide Series (2014) and Ideas of Order (2025).
Erin Espelie co-founded NEST (Nature, Environment, Science & Technology) Studio for the Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2017, where she’s an associate professor of cinema. Her poetic, nonfiction films have shown at the New York Film Festival, the British Natural History Museum, SFMoMA, Full Frame, Rotterdam's International Film Festival, and more. Her feature-length film, The Lanthanide Series, premiered at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen and won the grand prize at the Seoul International New Media Festival in 2015. She has been editor in chief of Natural History magazine since 2014 and her hybrid writing has appeared in Leonardo, the Brooklyn Rail, TiltWest, and in her co-edited book, Deep Horizons: A Multisensory Archive of Ecological Affects & Prospects, published by Amherst College Press in 2023.
5:00 p.m.
What is Research? (2025) will explore various natures, purposes, and roles of research across disciplines, fields, and areas. The event will consider frameworks of systematic and creative inquiry, including methods, designs, analyses, discoveries, collaborations, dissemination, ethics, integrity, diversity, media/technologies, and information environments.
This year delves into research in its many forms, including searching, critically investigating, and re-examining existing knowledge, as well as emerging functions and procedures in machine intelligence and computation. It will highlight pluralities of research pathways, examining time-honored approaches and new ways of knowing, precedents, issues, and futures. It considers challenges and possibilities that researchers face in today’s rapidly changing world, and ways to promote ethical, inclusive, and impactful research.
The event celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Communication and Media Studies Doctoral Program in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.
5:00–8:00 p.m.
Please join Women in Graduate Sciences for our 11th Annual Fundraising Gala. We are hosting two back-to-back events designed to provide an engaging and informative evening celebrating women and marginalized genders in STEM!
From 5 to 6 PM, join us for a cocktail hour where community members are invited to learn about WGS's initiatives, meet our executive board, and hear from WGS members, including scholarship winners and our outreach team. Stay for the main event from 6-8 PM, where we welcome everyone for a buffet style dinner, banquet raffle, and exciting seminar by Dr. Laura Ackerman-Biegasiewicz, an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Emory University whose research focuses on developing technology for accelerating reaction discovery in sustainable chemistry.
As the annual WGS fundraising benefit, the event offers a sliding scale of ticket prices ($50 for students, $100 for non-students, and $800 for an 8-person table). Purchase tickets or donate to WGS.
3:00–4:00 p.m.
Graduate students! Perfect your skills in creating captivating and concise posters tailored for the Graduate Research Forum and any upcoming conference. This webinar will equip you with the essential principles of modern poster design, enabling you to simplify complex ideas, integrate visuals effectively, and deliver your message within the strict space confines of a poster. Whether you're a novice or an experienced presenter, don't miss this opportunity to learn the art of creating impactful poster that reinforce your research narrative and engage your audience. Register at https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/b75dada44ac6432e9100b9271193c184
6:00–7:00 a.m.
As graduate students wrap up their thesis work and consider next steps, many may consider a postdoc. This session, generously made possible by the University of Tennessee Knoxville, will provide a brief presentation, which will be followed with a panel of faculty, who serve as postdoc mentors. Panelists will share their perspective and offer their advice with ample time for questions and answers. Graduate students are welcome to attend; doctoral students in dissertation stage are the intended audience. Go to https://tiny.utk.edu/grad-to-postdoc
4:00–5:00 p.m.
Andrew Russo, Visiting Assistant Professor, PPPM | Lived Experiences and Critical Perspectives in Disaster Response and Recovery
5:15–8:15 p.m.
Registration for this year’s HOPES [30] Conference is open! HOPES is an annual student-organized conference on sustainability in design and this year’s theme is RESURGENCE. Hosted at Lawrence Hall from the afternoon of Thursday, April 10th to 5pm on Saturday, April 12th. Register with the QR code for free food and students who attend all 3 days qualify for 1 free design credit! Learn more at our website.
HOPES [30] has invited speakers from across disciplines to talk about cultural resurgence. Confirmed speakers for this year are:
Lisa & Leaf Hillman Dark Matter University Shamichael Hallman Dr. Fernando Ortiz-Moya Bailey Morgan Brown Mitchel Jaime Andrade LopezStudent panels include topics of materials, history & current events, and food & landscape futures. With researchers from our very own University of Oregon, Oregon State University, University of Washington, and Cornell University, don’t miss this opportunity to see the projects that bring us HOPES.
Throughout the Conference will be smaller activities perfect for spending a relaxing Spring Term afternoon with your friends. Make fashion out of trash, attend a workshop, listen to poetry, see a film screening, or compete in the Egg Drop! Design a work of artful trashy fashion and watch it walk down the catwalk worn by a UO professor on Saturday, April 12th.
Join us for the RESURGENCE.
3:00–4:00 p.m.
Graduate students! Perfect your skills in creating captivating and concise posters tailored for the Graduate Research Forum and any upcoming conference. This webinar will equip you with the essential principles of modern poster design, enabling you to simplify complex ideas, integrate visuals effectively, and deliver your message within the strict space confines of a poster. Whether you're a novice or an experienced presenter, don't miss this opportunity to learn the art of creating impactful poster that reinforce your research narrative and engage your audience. Register at https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/e96c6b04da494caeb5998923151098d9.
10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
The University of Oregon Department of Art is pleased to present a lecture and exhibition by Sarah Nance (MFA ’13), made possible by the Laverne Krause Lectures and Exhibitions endowment.
"For evaporated seas combines several bodies of work made in response to what I call 'archived landscapes.' These are sites that have exhibited multiple distinct geologic identities over time, such as a subsurface meteor crater or mountain range that was once a sea reef. I collect geologic and experiential data from these sites and use it to guide my material interactions with things like mylar film, knitting patterns, and opera.
I think of the works I make in response to these environments as shrouds that vary from handworked textiles to vocal performances. When installed on site, the shrouds become additional surface layers that contribute to the complex geologic strata of their terrains. They also point to the entwined human and geologic histories of these places, and mourn the products of those entanglements."
- Sarah Nance, 2025
Sarah Nance (MFA, '13) is an interdisciplinary artist based in installation and fiber. She explores entanglements of geologic processes and human experience in archived, constructed, and speculative terrains. Her time spent living in the geologies of Oregon, Iceland, eastern Canada, and the Driftless Area of the Midwest has been significant in the development of her research, much of which continues to be based in these regions. Nance is currently Assistant Professor of Integrated Practice in the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at SUNY-Binghamton in New York. She has previously held professorships in Interdisciplinary Art at SMU (Dallas, TX), Fibres & Material Practices at Concordia University (Montréal, QC), and Fiber at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA). Her work has been performed and exhibited widely at venues in China, France, Canada, Iceland, South Korea, Germany, and Italy, as well as across the U.S.
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Why YOU should come to this Expo...
You're curious about your future. Explore different career paths and job roles across industries. EXPOse yourself to unique career pathways that can use your career readiness skills and passions to make an impact in the world. You want to make connections. These organizations LOVE to hire Ducks and want to help you find your career fit. You might even meet UO alumni recruiting for them at the expo. Ask a recruiter what career readiness skills you can be building now to make you a top candidate in the present or future (and add them to your Linkedin network for future connections!). You want to find a job, internship, year of service, volunteer opportunity, and more! If you're actively job searching, have your resume ready to hand out and a short and sweet synopsis about yourself and your professional interests ready to go! If you're just exploring options, collect contact info, do some additional research, and do an informational interview to learn more before you apply. You want to build your confidence! Practice asking questions of employers AND sharing about who you are and what you're passionate about. Every expo you attend and each time you approach a recruiter, you get more and more comfortable presenting yourself in a professional manner. You want a FREE professional headshot! Dress to impress and get a headshot taken you can use on your Linkedin!WHO'S COMING? Find your career fit with over 70+ employers comprised of private industry; public, educational, and non-profit organizations; local government, the federal government, law enforcement, and military--ALL on campus and excited to share more with you about their organization and early career talent opportunities. Open to students from ALL majors, classifications, and identities. Every expo looks a little different so come each term to keep exploring and expanding your career opportunities!
WHAT NEXT? Register for the Expo on Handshake today to learn about all the companies coming, and positions of interest you can be researching. We'll also send you tips and advice for how to make the most of the expo, including Career Readiness Week workshops like our Resume Extravaganza so you can have a great resume to hand to potential employers!
The University Career Center gives a special thanks to Enterprise Mobility, and Sherwin Williams for sponsoring all of our Spring Career Readiness Week events and workshops!
For a full list of Spring Career Readiness Week (April 11–18) events and workshops, check out http://career.uoregon.edu/events
4:00 p.m.
University of Oregon Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research
The lecture will be followed by an exhibtion reception for Sarah Nance: "for evaporated seas" in the Laverne Krause Gallery.
Nance creates shrouds for “archived” landscapes—environments, such as former inland seas, that are now observable only through fossil records, artifacts, or recorded data. These shrouds vary from handworked textiles to experimental vocal performances and, when installed on site, become surface layers that point to complex records of deep time. In her most recent work, Nance focuses on the complex visual experience of shininess and its ability to disorient and obscure. She considers the mirage in particular, as a phenomenon that creates slippages in a landscape’s boundaries in time and space.
Sarah Nance (MFA, '13) is an interdisciplinary artist based in installation and fiber. She explores entanglements of geologic processes and human experience in archived, constructed, and speculative terrains. Her time spent living in the geologies of Oregon, Iceland, eastern Canada, and the Driftless Area of the Midwest has been significant in the development of her research, much of which continues to be based in these regions. Nance is currently Assistant Professor of Integrated Practice in the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at SUNY-Binghamton in New York. She has previously held professorships in Interdisciplinary Art at SMU (Dallas, TX), Fibres & Material Practices at Concordia University (Montréal, QC), and Fiber at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA). Her work has been performed and exhibited widely at venues in China, France, Canada, Iceland, South Korea, Germany, and Italy, as well as across the U.S.
This lecture and exhibition are made possible by the Laverne Krause Lectures and Exhibitions endowment.
5:00–6:00 p.m.
Reception will immediate follow the lecture.
The University of Oregon Department of Art is pleased to present a lecture and exhibition by Sarah Nance (MFA ’13), made possible by the Laverne Krause Lectures and Exhibitions endowment.
"For evaporated seas combines several bodies of work made in response to what I call 'archived landscapes.' These are sites that have exhibited multiple distinct geologic identities over time, such as a subsurface meteor crater or mountain range that was once a sea reef. I collect geologic and experiential data from these sites and use it to guide my material interactions with things like mylar film, knitting patterns, and opera.
I think of the works I make in response to these environments as shrouds that vary from handworked textiles to vocal performances. When installed on site, the shrouds become additional surface layers that contribute to the complex geologic strata of their terrains. They also point to the entwined human and geologic histories of these places, and mourn the products of those entanglements."
- Sarah Nance, 2025
Sarah Nance (MFA, '13) is an interdisciplinary artist based in installation and fiber. She explores entanglements of geologic processes and human experience in archived, constructed, and speculative terrains. Her time spent living in the geologies of Oregon, Iceland, eastern Canada, and the Driftless Area of the Midwest has been significant in the development of her research, much of which continues to be based in these regions. Nance is currently Assistant Professor of Integrated Practice in the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at SUNY-Binghamton in New York. She has previously held professorships in Interdisciplinary Art at SMU (Dallas, TX), Fibres & Material Practices at Concordia University (Montréal, QC), and Fiber at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA). Her work has been performed and exhibited widely at venues in China, France, Canada, Iceland, South Korea, Germany, and Italy, as well as across the U.S.
6:00–7:00 p.m.
Meet the artists of the UO Printmaking Student Art Exhibit! Come celebrate the amazing printmaking of over 20 student artists at the SAB McMillan Gallery Team's reception on April 17th @6:00 p.m. This exhibit displays an incredible assortment of pieces provided by over 20 student artists. Have fun meeting these talented artists while enjoying free refreshments and fun DIY activities. The show will be on view through May 16th.
7:00 p.m.
The Department of Cinema Studies proudly announces the 10th Annual Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Series with award-winning Director Sean Wang.
Join cinema studies for a screening of Sean Wang’s 2024 feature film DÌDI (弟弟) followed by an in-person Q&A and reception with the award-winning writer and director.
Free and open to the community.
For more information about the screening, please visit cinema.uoregon.edu.
Sean Wang is an Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker from the Bay Area. He began his career developing and directing commercials at Google Creative Lab. Since then, his work has screened at globally renowned film festivals including Sundance, SXSW, and TIFF. He is a former Sundance Ignite and TAAF fellow, and 2023 Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Lab Fellow. In 2024, he was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Artist and received the Sundance Vanguard Award for Fiction.
His most recent short film, Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó (Grandma & Grandma), premiered at SXSW 2023 where it won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award and was acquired by Disney+. It went on to screen at dozens of film festivals worldwide, earning top honors at AFI Fest and SIFF, and was nominated for Best Documentary Short Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
His feature directorial debut, Dìdi (弟弟), premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award, Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble Cast, and was acquired by Focus Features for a global theatrical release. Sean was nominated by the DGA for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film and the film was named a New York Times Critics Pick, nominated for 4 Independent Spirit Awards, winning 2 for Best First Screenplay and Best First Feature, and was named one of the top ten independent films of 2024 by the National Board of Review.
The UO Cinema Studies Visiting Filmmaker Series is Funded by the Generous Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment.
4:00 p.m.
University of Oregon Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research
This talk will cover Christina Fernandez's performance for camera work from the very beginning of her photographic practice as an undergrad student at UCLA to the present, including new work that addresses the female body, aging and sexuality. Fernandez has often used her own body before the camera as a stand in for the collective Latina, both becoming or playing the role of an historical/mythical figure, a family member, and as herself.
Christina Fernandez (b. 1965) a Los Angeles–based artist, has spent over three decades conducting rich explorations of migration, labor, gender, her Mexican American identity, and the capacities of photography itself. She earned her BA at UCLA in 1989 and her MFA at Cal Arts in 1996. She is an associate professor at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California. Fernandez’s projects have been in major exhibitions including Shifting Landscapes (Whitney Museum of American art) Home - So Different, So Appealing (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017), Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008). Her work has been exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Museum of Modern Art, New York, among many other venues. In 2021, Fernandez was one of the first artists honored with the prestigious Latinx Artist Fellowship and Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures is the first major monographic museum exhibition of her work.
This lecture is made possible by the George and Matilda Fowler Endowment Fund.
5:00–6:30 p.m.
The annual Fuller Lecture Series is excited to invite Forbes LIpschitz to discuss Vernacular Agriculture. The topic is part of the Fuller exhibit held in the Lawrence Hall atrium in fall 2024.
Lipschitz is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Chair of Landscape Architecture at the Knowlton School. As a faculty affiliate for the Initiative in Food and AgriCultural Transformation, her current research investigates the potential of design to reframe and reshape conventional working landscapes. Through public installations and participatory workshops, she explores ways for design to help communities better understand and engage with agricultural systems. Her research has been published nationally and internationally and her creative work has been featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine, Metropolis Magazine, and Smithsonian Magazine. She has been awarded funding from the Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research, the Graham Foundation for Fine Arts and the Van Alen Institute.
4:00–7:00 p.m.
The Division of Graduate Studies invites you to a celebration of the research, scholarship, and creative expressions of UO graduate students. The forum regularly showcases the work of more than 100 students representing more than 35 disciplines. Join us for the popular poster and networking session !
To participate, all graduate-level students are invited to submit a proposal by April 16, 2025. All accepted posters will be judged. Posters are categorized by field; first place in each category will win $300.
For more information, go to https://graduatestudies.uoregon.edu/forum
4:00–5:00 p.m.
Amanda Stasiewicz, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies | Power off, adaptation on: differential needs of communities adapting to wildfire risk while also dealing with Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS)
7:00 a.m.–11:00 p.m.
The annual Advanced Photography Student Exhibition is returning to the McMillan Gallery. Featuring work from University of Oregon Photography students, this show is a great opportunity to see work from skilled student artists in our gallery. Join us for refreshments and meet the artists on May 29th from 6pm-7pm. On view in the McMillan Gallery May 27th, 2025 to June 13th, 2025
6:00–7:00 p.m.
The annual Advanced Photography Student Exhibition is returning to the McMillan Gallery. Featuring work from University of Oregon Photography students, this show is a great opportunity to see work from skilled student artists in our gallery. Join us for refreshments and meet the artists on May 29th from 6pm-7pm. On view in the McMillan Gallery May 27th, 2025 to June 13th, 2025.
1:00–3:00 p.m.
Join the College of Design for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 1:00 pm in Matt Knight Arena. For more information regarding graduate RSVP requirements and day of details, please visit College of Design Commencement Website