Meet the HAA MA Graduate who Joined JSMA as its Executive Director
The new executive director of the JSMA, Olivia Miller MA '09 (art history), returns to a museum and a university that shaped her. Read more about her journey.
History of Art and Architecture
Portland Parks Foundation Panel Treats Crowd to Tales of Historic Landmark
All across the United States, there are examples of history and artistic expression left behind by previous generations, with communities featuring culturally significant statues, monuments, portraits, graffiti, posters, signs, architecture, and more. Some of these pieces come with a complicated history and have been at the center of periods of civil unrest, especially in recent years, as the public grapples with the history of the object.
Why ancient people depicted elks as wolfish monsters
Maude I. Kerns Professor Emerita of Asian Art talks to "Popular Science" about why Elks were traditionally depicated in ancient art as monstrous.
HAA Affiliated Faculty's Fractal Research Inspires International Design Firm
When international, award-winning design firm, 13&9 Design, searched for research to help center their design philosophy to a more biophilic focused, the team turned to Richard Taylor's stellar research on fractals.
Jayne Cole Southard's, HA&A PhD '22, Latest Exhibition Reviewed by "The New York Times"
Profiled in "The New York Times" "Newly Reviewed" series, the latest exhibition organized by Howie Chen, UO alumna Jayne Cole Southard, HA&A PhD '22, and Christina Ong is the "Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City (1969-2001)." Billed as "a smart and moving group show at New York University’s 80WSE gallery" by the paper, the exhibition features some 90 different works structured around three foundational grass-roots entities: the arts production and social services hub called Basement Workshop, founded in Chinatown in 1970; the Asian American Arts Centre, a gallery and performance space that debuted in the neighborhood in 1974 (and is still there); and the institution-storming collective Godzilla: Asian American Art Network, which coalesced in 1990.
If these walls could talk: Inside the Saint-Étienne Cathedral
College of Design History of Art and Architecture PhD Candidate, Gabriela Chitwood, was featured in a recent OPRI article discussing the relationship between Toulouse Cathedral and the local population. Built over 500 years, the cathedral was used in a half-built state for many generations between the 13th and 15th centuries. Chitwood's work explores what it is like to inhabit and interact within the space while it is being built.