Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU

2024 | The Making of Mine Camp and Other Works: A Conversation with Jonathan Follett of the Walla Walla Foundry
2024-05-23 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
A conversation with Walla Walla Foundry’s president, Jonathon Follett
Thursday, May 23, 2024, 3-4pm
Pavilion Gallery, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU

On Thursday, May 23rd from 3:00-4:00 p.m., Jonathan Follett, President of the Walla Walla Foundry, will share fascinating details concerning the fabrication of some of the world’s most ambitious artworks. Beginning with Mine Camp (1991), a seminal sculpture created by artists Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Follett will also highlight additional projects his organization has produced in the subsequent decades as the Walla Walla Foundry has become one of the largest contemporary art fabricators in the world.
Bronze fragments and an immersive reproduction of Mine Camp are included in the museum’s current exhibition, Beyond Hope: Kienholz and the Inland Northwest, which will be on view through June 29, 2024.
About | Originally founded in 1980 as a bronze casting foundry, the Walla Walla Foundry now employs over 100 people and produces work in a range of materials and through multiple processes. The foundry casts in various alloys, including bronze, copper, brass, stainless steel, silver and zinc. It also produces work in wood, resin, glass, and wax. It houses an advanced technological infrastructure encompassing a digital design and modeling department, high resolution CNC machines, 3D scanning, and high precision water jet cutting services.
Location
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit museum.wsu.edu/about.

2024 | LandEscapes Release Party
2024-04-23 16:00 - 17:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us Tuesday, April 23 for the LandEscapes Release Party!
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 4:00–5:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
WSU’s student-run art and literary journal will celebrate the release of their 2024 issue, with an accompanying program of readings by featured student authors. Original works of art published in the new issue of the journal will also be on display. Additional WSU publications will host tables at the event. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.
Location
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit museum.wsu.edu/about.

2024 | Beyond Hope: Reception and Gallery Talk With Guest Curator Johanna Gosse
2024-04-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Enjoy a Reception and Gallery Talk With Guest Curator Johanna Gosse for the exhibition Beyond Hope: Kienholz and the Inland Northwest
Friday, April 12, 2024, 4:00–6:00 pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Creighton Gallery)
Join guest curator Johanna Gosse in the museum galleries on Friday, April 12, from 4:00-6:00 pm for a reception and gallery talk about the exhibition Beyond Hope: Kienholz and the Inland Northwest. Beyond Hope explores the collaborative artistic practice of artist Ed Kienholz and his wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz, during the decades they spent living and working in the small northern Panhandle town of Hope, Idaho. Using key works from the exhibition, the gallery talk will further contextualize the notion of place as a generative context for the Kienholzes’ artistic practice.
Discussion and questions will be welcomed during the talk, which begins at 4:15 pm with reception to follow. This program is free and open to the public. Donations welcome.
Organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU and guest curated by Johanna Gosse. Funding for this program and exhibition is provided by the John Matthews Friel Memorial Arts Lectureship, Nancy Spitzer, Les and Carolyn Stephens, the Samuel H. and Patricia W. Smith Endowment, and friends of the museum.
About | Johanna Gosse is a London-based art historian specializing in experimental film and media. She is a Lecturer in Lens and Time-Based Art Histories at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and from 2023-24, she is the Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor in the Department of History of Art at the University of Oxford. With Timothy Stott, Johanna co-edited Nervous Systems: Art, Systems, and Politics since the 1960s (Duke University Press, 2022). She is currently the field editor for Cinema, Media, and Performance for caa.reviews, and from 2018-23, served as Executive Editor of Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus.
Location
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit museum.wsu.edu/about.

2024 | Demonstration and Performance with Reika Okuhara and Mozi Jones
2024-04-06 14:00 - 15:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
On Family Weekend, enjoy a Resin-Casting Demonstration with Reika Okuhara and a Performance by Mozi Jones
Saturday, April 6, 2024, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Wright/Harmon Gallery, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Join us for Family Weekend on Saturday, April 6th, from 2:00-3:00pm: The MFA Thesis Exhibition artists will offer interactive opportunities and welcome conversations with visitors in the Wright/Harmon Gallery.
Artist Reika Okuhara will demonstrate resin casting, which is used in her works Then, everything will return to the bottom of the sea and Nankuru nai sa (It will work out somehow). Artist Mozi Jones will offer a brief yet compelling performance in relationship to the artworks on display in her thesis work Circus of Self.
Location
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit museum.wsu.edu/about.

2024 | Master of Fine Arts Thesis: Artist Talks and Reception
2024-04-05 15:00 - 18:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join the museum in celebrating the Master of Fine Arts Thesis Artist Talks and Reception
Friday, April 5, 2024, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Join us for Family Weekend on Friday, April 5 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. for artist talks by the two graduate candidates featured in the Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. This year’s candidates, Mozi Jones and Reika Okuhara, will speak briefly to introduce the body of work they are presenting in the exhibition. The talks will be followed by an opening reception from 4:00-6:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Also, don’t miss a Demonstration and Performance with Reika Okuhara and Mozi Jones on Saturday, April 6 from 2-3pm in the museum’s Wright/Harmon Gallery.
Location
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit museum.wsu.edu/about.

2024 | WSU Visiting Writers Series: Reading and Q&A with Gabrielle Calvocoressi
2024-04-02 17:00 - 18:00 | WA
WSU Visiting Writers Series: Reading and Q&A with Poet, Author, and Editor Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Tuesday, April 2, 5:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
YouTube Stream | Author Website
About | Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize), and Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University; a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer’s Award; a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, TX; the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review; and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation, among others. Calvocoressi’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and journals including The Baffler, The New York Times, POETRY, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Tin House, and The New Yorker. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Works in progress include a non-fiction book entitled, The Year I Didn’t Kill Myself and a novel, The Alderman of the Graveyard. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Old East Durham, NC, where joy, compassion, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Calvocoressi is the Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute for 2022–2023.
The reading is hosted at the museum by the WSU Visiting Writers Series.
Gabrielle’s 1-credit ENG 358 Creative Writing Poetry Workshop will be held on Wednesday, April 3, 3–8:30 p.m. in the Bundy Reading Room of Avery Hall. Contact Your CAS Advisor to Sign Up!
Location
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit museum.wsu.edu/about.

2024 | Drop-In Macramé Activity: Braiding Our Stories
2024-03-01 12:30 - 14:30 | WA
Visit the museum and enjoy a drop-in macrame activity: Braiding Our Stories
March 1, 2024, 12:30-2:30pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
In WSU’s 2024 common reading book, Braiding Sweetgrass, author Robin Wall Kimmerer urges us to consider the many parts of ourselves that are woven together and that make making us strong, resilient, and beautiful. Reflecting on her experience weaving a black ash basket, she writes, “[The baskets] are all made of the same stuff yet each is itself. That’s the way it is with…people, too, all made of the same thing and each their own kind of beautiful.” Come engage in a short reflective activity: Create a simple macramé key chain that symbolizes the strands of self you honor and value, while also building connections with others in the WSU community. All materials provided. Hosted by the WSU Pullman Common Reading Program.
On March 1st this activity takes place in the Schnitzer museum, which features Here in a Homemade Forest: Common Reading Connections, an exhibition curated in response to the book Braiding Sweetgrass.
Location
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit museum.wsu.edu/about.

2024 | Tour: The Quilting Practice of Artist Jeffrey Gibson
2024-03-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Take a tour of the quilting practice of Artist Jeffrey Gibson
Friday, March 1, 2024, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Join us from 12:00-1:00 p.m. on Friday, March 1 for a tour about quilts and quilt references in the exhibitions Jeffrey Gibson: They Teach Love, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation and Here in a Homemade Forest: Common Reading Connections. Kristin Becker, Curator of Education & Programs, will highlight three quilts by Jeffrey Gibson, offering the opportunity to see the backs of the quilts hanging on the gallery walls. Prints by artist Wendy Red Star that reference Native star quilts will also be featured.
This tour is free and open to the public, no registration necessary. Donations to the museum are welcome.
Location
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit museum.wsu.edu/about.

2024 | Round Bag Weaving Workshop
2024-02-24 10:00 - 16:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join a Round Bag Weaving Workshop with Jacy SoHappy
Saturday, February 24, 10:00am–4:00pm (lunch 12:00–1:00pm)
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Feb 24 Registration Link.
Join us at the museum for a 1-day round bag weaving workshop with Jacy Sohappy, Traditional Arts Manager at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts. Jacy will lead up to 12 participants in the creation of a mini-round bag.
The workshop is free, with registration required. Six of the 12 spots will be reserved for WSU students. Lunch will be provided courtesy of the Common Reading Program. Registration opens to all at 12pm PST on February 1, 2024.
Another workshop for 12 participants will be held on Friday, February 23.
Co-sponsored by the Common Reading program and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU.
About | Jacy Sohappy, Taamamno Ilp Ilp (Red Hummingbird), is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation and was born and raised in the Mission/Pendleton area. She descends from the Cayuse, Nez Perce and Yakama Tribes. She grew up in the tribal longhouse, traveling Indian country on the pow wow trail and medicine dances, learning how to preserve Native cultural identity and teachings from her grandmother, Loretta “Lonnie” Alexander (Pinkham). Sohappy has followed in her grandmother’s footsteps as a gatherer, seamstress and painter. These teachings have seeped into her artwork, expressing her dedication to preserving Native culture and identity for the future of our children. Jacy looks forward to working with all of you. One heart. One mind.
Co-sponsored by the Common Reading Program and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, with special thanks to Global Campus.
Funding for this program was provided by the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities, Nancy Spitzer, and Patrick & Elizabeth Siler.
Location
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit museum.wsu.edu/about.

2024 | Round Bag Weaving Workshop
2024-02-23 10:00 - 16:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join a Round Bag Weaving Workshop with Jacy SoHappy
Friday, February 23, 10:00am–4:00pm (lunch 12:00–1:00pm)
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Feb 23 Registration Link.
Join us at the museum for a 1-day round bag weaving workshop with Jacy Sohappy, Traditional Arts Manager at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts. Jacy will lead up to 12 participants in the creation of miniature woven baskets using hemp twine and yarn. Different techniques will be demonstrated and patterns will be available to use.
The workshop is free, with registration required. Six of the 12 spots will be reserved for WSU students. Lunch will be provided courtesy of the Common Reading Program.
Another workshop for 12 participants will be held on Saturday, February 24.
About | Jacy Sohappy, Taamamno Ilp Ilp (Red Hummingbird), is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation and was born and raised in the Mission/Pendleton area. She descends from the Cayuse, Nez Perce and Yakama Tribes. She grew up in the tribal longhouse, traveling Indian country on the pow wow trail and medicine dances, learning how to preserve Native cultural identity and teachings from her grandmother, Loretta “Lonnie” Alexander (Pinkham). Sohappy has followed in her grandmother’s footsteps as a gatherer, seamstress and painter. These teachings have seeped into her artwork, expressing her dedication to preserving Native culture and identity for the future of our children. Jacy looks forward to working with all of you. One heart. One mind.
Co-sponsored by the Common Reading Program and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, with special thanks to Global Campus.
Funding for this program was provided by the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities, Nancy Spitzer, and Patrick & Elizabeth Siler.
Location
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit museum.wsu.edu/about.

2024 | Here in a Homemade Forest: Indigenous Arts Talk
2024-02-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Here in a Homemade Forest: Indigenous Arts Talk with Michael Holloman and Jacy Sohappy

Thursday, February 22, 12:00–1:00pm
In Person | Pavilion Gallery, Schnitzer Museum WSU
Livestream | WSU Global Campus YouTube Channel
Join us for a talk with Michael Holloman and Jacy Sohappy, who will speak about Indigenous weaving and beading practices as they relate to artworks and cultural materials featured in the exhibition Here in a Homemade Forest: Common Reading Connections. Guest curator Michael Holloman will emphasize the importance of intergenerational knowledge and the artworks as living items, not only in relation to the materials from which they are made, but also in how they are used in community. Visiting artist Jacy Sohappy will add context based on her personal experiences as a maker. Sohappy will also lead two Round Bag Weaving Workshops at the museum on February 23rd and February 24th.
The talk will take place in the museum’s Pavilion Gallery and will also be livestreamed and recorded for those who cannot attend in person.
About | Michael Holloman is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation and associate professor in the Department of Art at Washington State University. He also serves as Coordinator of Native Arts Outreach and Education in the College of Arts and Sciences WSU and Board Chair for Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts. From 2010-2014 he was the director of the WSU Plateau Center for American Indian Studies. Prior he was the director of American Indian exhibits, collection management and educational programming at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture in Spokane, WA.
About | Jacy Sohappy, Taamamno Ilp Ilp (Red Hummingbird), is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation and was born and raised in the Mission/Pendleton area. She descends from the Cayuse, Nez Perce and Yakama Tribes. She grew up in the tribal longhouse, traveling Indian country on the pow wow trail and medicine dances, learning how to preserve Native cultural identity and teachings from her grandmother, Loretta “Lonnie” Alexander (Pinkham). Sohappy has followed in her grandmother’s footsteps as a gatherer, seamstress and painter. These teachings have seeped into her artwork, expressing her dedication to preserving Native culture and identity for the future of our children. Jacy looks forward to working with all of you. One heart. One mind.
Co-sponsored by the Common Reading Program and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, with special thanks to Global Campus.
Funding for this program was provided by the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities, Nancy Spitzer, and Patrick & Elizabeth Siler.
Location
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit museum.wsu.edu/about.

2024 | Writers Give Voice: Reading and Open Mic
2024-01-16 13:45 - 14:45 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Writers Give Voice: Reading and Open Mic
January 16, 2024, 1:45-2:45pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
As part of the National Day of Racial Healing 2024, the museum and WSU’s English Department will host a reading and open mic program in response to the theme of day. Readers will include WSU Campus Civic Poets & finalists, creative writing students and faculty, and student editors of WSU creative writing publications. All students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to bring a poem to read during the open mic portion. Before and after the program, visitors are encouraged to view current museum exhibitions, including Jeffrey Gibson: They Teach Love, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation and Here in a Homemade Forest: Common Reading Connections. Both exhibitions feature work by contemporary Indigenous artists.
This program takes place live in the museum’s Pavilion Gallery, and will also livestream on the WSU Global Campus YouTube channel.
For related museum programs on the National Day of Racial Healing 2024, please see our upcoming events page.
Location
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit museum.wsu.edu/about.

2024 | Drop-In Macrame Activity: Braiding Our Stories
2024-01-16 11:30 - 13:30 | WA
Visit the museum and enjoy a drop-in macrame activity: Braiding Our Stories
January 16, 2024, 11:30am-1:30pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
In WSU’s 2024 common reading book, Braiding Sweetgrass, author Robin Wall Kimmerer urges us to consider the many parts of ourselves that are woven together and that make making us strong, resilient, and beautiful. Reflecting on her experience weaving a black ash basket, she writes, “[The baskets] are all made of the same stuff yet each is itself. That’s the way it is with…people, too, all made of the same thing and each their own kind of beautiful.” Come engage in a short reflective activity: Create a simple macrame key chain that symbolizes the strands of self you honor and value, while also building connections with others in the WSU community. All materials provided. Hosted by the WSU Pullman Common Reading Program.
On January 16 this activity takes place in the Schnitzer museum, which features Here in a Homemade Forest: Common Reading Connections, an exhibition curated in response to the book Braiding Sweetgrass. January 16 is the National Day of Racial Healing 2024. For additional related programs at the museum, see our upcoming events page.
Note | On January 31 this program will be offered again from 3:30-5:00 pm in CUE 202.
Location
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit museum.wsu.edu/about.

2024 | Creative Writing & Mindfulness Workshop
2024-01-16 10:30 - 12:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join the museum for a Creative Writing & Mindfulness Workshop for the National Day of Racial Healing
January 16, 2024, 10:30am-12:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
As part of the National Day of Racial Healing 2024, Cameron McGill, Colin Criss, and additional creative writing faculty will lead an ekphrastic writing workshop in response to current museum exhibitions. An ekphrastic poem (from ekphrasis, Greek for “description”) imaginatively engages with, responds to, or reflects upon a work of art. Current exhibitions include Jeffrey Gibson: They Teach Love, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundationand Here in a Homemade Forest: Common Reading Connections. The workshop will begin with a mindfulness session with Trymaine Gaither.
NOTE: Participants will have the option to share their writing later in the day in the museum’s Pavilion Gallery at Writers Give Voice: Reading and Open Mic. For additional museum programs on the National Day of Racial Healing 2024, please see our upcoming events page.
Location
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit museum.wsu.edu/about.

2023 | Tour: The Quilting Practice of Artist Jeffrey Gibson
2023-12-09 14:00 - 15:00 | WA
Tour: The Quilting Practice of Artist Jeffrey Gibson
Saturday, 12/9, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Join the museum from 2-3 p.m. on Saturday, December 9 for a tour about quilts and quilt references in the exhibitions Jeffrey Gibson: They Teach Love, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation and Here in a Homemade Forest: Common Reading Connections. Kristin Becker, Curator of Education & Programs, will highlight three quilts by Jeffrey Gibson, offering the opportunity to see the backs of the quilts hanging on the gallery walls. Prints by artist Wendy Red Star that reference Native star quilts will also be featured.
This tour has been organized for two local quilting groups, Palouse Patchers and Patchin’ People, but is free and open to the public, no registration necessary. Donations to the museum are welcome.
Location
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus.

2023 | WSU Visiting Writers Series: Bojan Lewis
2023-10-18 17:00 - 18:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
WSU Visiting Writers Series: Bojan Lewis
Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 5:00-6:00 p.m.
In-Person: Pavilion Gallery, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Livestream via YouTube
Join the WSU Visiting Writer Series in the Schnitzer Museum for a public reading and Q&A with poet, essayist, and short-story author Bojan Louis. Bojan Louis is Diné of the Naakai dine’é, born for the Áshííhí. He is the author of the short-story collection, Sinking Bell (Graywolf Press 2022), the poetry collection Currents (BkMk Press 2017), and the nonfiction chapbook Troubleshooting Silence in Arizona (The Guillotine Series 2012). His work can also be found in Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, Native Voices Anthology, and The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature.
His honors include a MacDowell Fellowship, a 2018 American Book Award, and a 2023 National Endowments for the Arts Literature Fellowship. In addition to teaching at the Institute for American Indian Arts, Louis is an associate professor in the Creative Writing MFA and American Indian Studies programs at the University of Arizona.

2023 | Murals Speak Up: A Conversation with Muralist Joseph ‘Nuke’ Montalvo
2023-09-29 13:00 - 14:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Murals Speak Up: A Conversation with Muralist Joseph ‘Nuke’ Montalvo
Friday, September 29, 2023, 1:00-2:00pm
Pavilion Gallery, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Join artist Joseph ‘Nuke’ Montalvo for a conversation about the murals he created in 2000 for the Chicana/o Latina/o Student Alliance (ChiLaStAl), originally hung in Wilson-Short Hall. The murals were moved to the CUB in 2017, where they are now part of the Chicanx Latinx Student Center. Muralist Montalvo will join in conversation with Lucila Loera, Executive Director of the Office for Access & Opportunity in the Division of Students Affairs; Dr. Raymond Herrera, Associate Vice Provost of WSU’s Graduate School and Director of the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program; and Rafael Pruneda, Bridges Transfer Advisor, WSU Tri-Cities. Loera, Herrera, and Pruneda were involved in the creation of the murals in 2000 and their relocation to the current Chicanx Latinx Student Center in 2017.
About the Artist: Joseph ‘Nuke’ Montalvo, who is based in Los Angeles, is visiting campus to complete conservation and preservation work on the murals, to offer an artist’s talk titled “The Untold Stories: Using Art as a Tool for Revolution and Healing,” and to run a painting workshop hosted by Global Campus. The artist’s talk and painting workshop will take place in the evening on September 29 at the Elson Floyd Cultural Center. Join us at the museum from 1-2pm on Friday September 29 for a more intimate conversation about the history of Nuke’s murals at WSU.

2023 | Guided Discussion and Celebration With Jeffrey Gibson
2023-09-19 13:30 - 18:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Guided Discussion: Adornment, Individuality & Community
Youtube Livestreamed Link
September 19, 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Join artist Jeffrey Gibson and other special guests for a discussion about how choices of adornment communicate individuality as well as community identity. Discussion will include historical perspectives from Native culture regarding materiality and spirituality, as well as wider contemporary questions. The conversation will be moderated by Michael Holloman, Associate Professor with the Department of Art WSU and enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Special guests include artist Jeffrey Gibson, Nakia Williamson-Cloud, Cultural Resources Program Director of the Nimíipuu tribe, and WSU student Fabian Sanchez Mondejar, member of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe and President of WSU’s Native American Women’s Association.

Celebration with Artist Jeffrey Gibson
September 19, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Join museum benefactor Jordan Schnitzer, artist Jeffrey Gibson, and Nimíipuu (Nez Perce) representatives to celebrate the opening of Jeffrey Gibson: They Teach Love, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. The program will begin with a welcome to the homelands of the Nimíipuu and the Palus people from Nimíipuu tribal members. Light refreshments will follow.

2023 | First Year Experience Event
2023-09-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
First Year Programs Event

Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Pavilion Gallery, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
WSU’s First-Year Programs invite students, faculty, and staff from First-Year Focus and UNIV 104 courses to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU for music and refreshments, as well as activities and conversation in response to current exhibitions. This is a wonderful opportunity for students to interact with their professors. Music will be offered by Crimson Ties, WSU’s World Music Ensemble, and current exhibitions include Jeffrey Gibson: They Teach Love, from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation and Here in a Homemade Forest: Common Reading Connections.

2023 | Glass Comes Alive in Pullman
2023-08-30 12:30 - 18:30 | WA
Interdisciplinary Talks
by Glass Experts John McCloy and Hallie Meredith
12:30-1:30pm, Pavilion Gallery of the Museum and YouTube Livestream
Glassblowing Demonstration
by the Museum of Glass Mobile Hot Shop, Tacoma, WA
2:00-4:00pm, 4:30-6:30pm, Terrell Mall in front of the museum
Events are free and open to the public.
Glass is a deceptively simple material, ubiquitous in modern life but often overlooked in its significance. Yet it is both ancient and modern, a fusion of visual art, design, engineering, and technology. To explore the many facets of glass and celebrate the United Nations International Year of Glass, we offer Glass Comes Alive in Pullman. This free one-day event consists of interdisciplinary public talks about ancient and contemporary material and making, with a technological focus, followed by a demonstration by glassblowers from the Museum of Glass Mobile Hot Shop, Tacoma, WA. This event is designed to help students broaden their perspective concerning modern technology by looking to the past.
Interdisciplinary Talks | From 12:30-1:30pm Dr. Hallie Meredith, an expert in Ancient Art and Archaeology, and Dr. John McCloy, an expert in Materials and Mechanics, will give public talks about the technology of glass in the Pavilion Gallery of the Schnitzer Museum. The talks are designed to engage students and the wider community, and will also contextualize the museum’s Marian E. Smith glass collection, which is on permanent view in the Samuel H. Smith Center for Undergraduate Education (CUE, 2nd floor, Atrium). Employing cross-disciplinary perspectives, these talks highlight the continued relevance of glass making and working technologies. The talks will also be livestreamed via YouTube.
Glassblowing Demos | Glass Comes Alive in Pullman will culminate in a free outdoor demonstration by the Museum of Glass Mobile Hot Shop, Tacoma, WA complemented by interactive VR models. During the glass event contemporary glassblowers will experiment with ways to approach the design and engineering of these ancient art forms by making versions of ancient Roman, Sasanian and early Islamic glass vessels. The experimental objects made will complement the public presentations, which address differing interpretations concerning the making of ancient glass, embodied learning, and their relevance to the study and practice of technology today. The interdisciplinary talks will include 3D printed versions of a complex ancient glass vessel designed in VR, by the Spark in collaboration with Dr. Meredith, that the public can handle. In collaboration with Dr. Meredith, the Spark has also designed an app that will be available to download on any device during the demonstration. The app will further enable the public to learn more about the ancient glass objects and their rich object biographies as the glassblowers use contemporary approaches to make versions today. The interactive digital media are designed to make the past accessible and demonstrate its continued significance.
Please also join us in the Department of Art Auditorium (Fine Arts Building) on Tuesday, August 29 for an Artist’s Talk by Museum of Glass glassblower Ben Cobb.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
Dr. John McCloy | Dr. McCloy is Professor and current Director of the School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering and Lindholm Endowed Chair in Materials Engineering at Washington State University (WSU). His professional career includes stints in industry, national laboratory, and academia sectors: a professor at WSU since 2013, and previously a research scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he retains a joint appointment as Chief Scientist. At WSU, he leads the Nuclear, Optical, Magnetic, & Electronic (NOME) Materials Lab, where students and scientists research aspects of radioactive waste management, including development of glasses and other materials for nuclear waste immobilization.
Dr. Hallie Meredith | Hallie G. Meredith is Assistant Professor of art history in the Department of Art at Washington State University in Pullman, WA. She specializes in late Antique work, craft production, Eurasian exchange, and ancient technologies with a glass emphasis. In addition to editing and co-editing publications on late Roman visual culture, she is the author of Word becomes Image: Openwork Vessels as a Reflection of Late Antique Transformation (Archaeopress, 2015). Meredith is writing a book titled The Unknown Artist: Anonymous Roman Glass Artisans and their Legacy, which considers communities of late Roman craftworkers as a history for today’s craft community. For more on Dr. Meredith’s research and teaching projects, visit: HallieMeredith.net
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Museum of Glass Mobile Hot Shop | The Mobile Hot Shop arrives complete with two glass artists, an emcee, and all the glassmaking equipment to recreate our studio environment. These talented glassblowers use the tools on board to teach and captivate, with each move narrated by a skilled and knowledgeable emcee. Techniques are explained and questions are answered as the audience watches live glassmaking demonstrations. All of this occurs outdoors, under a very large tent with a full AV system for broadcasting the show.
Related Exhibition
Coinciding with the glass technology talks and event, the WSU Schnitzer Museum is offering the exhibition Jeffrey Gibson: They Teach Love from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. Jeffrey Gibson, (b. 1972, Colorado) is an artist of Choctaw-Cherokee heritage and incorporates glass and synthetic beadwork in some of his work.
Related Programs
• Glass Blowing Lecture by Museum of Glass Mobile Hot Shop, Tacoma, WA (Tues, August 29, 2023, Department of Art Auditorium at 4:30 pm)
• TENTATIVE: Workshop/Talk by Contemporary Native Bead Artist (September 2023)
Funding for these programs is provided by College of Arts and Sciences WSU; Common Reading Program; Creative Corridor WSU; David G. Pollart Center for Arts & Humanities WSU; Department of Art WSU; Global Campus WSU; International Year of Glass 2022;Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU and Learning Innovations WSU.

2023 | Artist's Talk With Glassblower Ben Cobb
2023-08-29 16:30 - 17:30 | WA
Artist’s Talk With Ben Cobb
Tuesday, August 29th, 4:30 p.m.
Department of Art Auditorium, located in the Fine Arts Building
Glass Comes Alive in Pullman is a two-day event celebrating the multifaceted beauty of glass as an art form that seamlessly intertwines visual art, design, engineering, and technology. On the afternoon of August 29th at 4:30 p.m., the community will gather at the Department of Art Auditorium located within the Fine Arts Building, awaiting the arrival of the lead glassblower, Ben Cobb, who is set to deliver an Artist’s Talk. Ben’s work at the Museum of Glass Mobile Hot Shop is known throughout the Pacific Northwest for expressing the relationship between nature and human biology, bringing together traditional and abstract patterns with elemental forms.
With a reputation that precedes him, Cobb is also known for his mastery of the craft and his ability to transmute molten glass into mesmerizing works of art. The August 29th talk will bring together art, history, technology, and community, leaving an indelible mark on the hearts and minds of all who attend, immersing themselves in the world of glass artistry.
Please also join us at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU on Wednesday, August 30 for interdisciplinary talks by WSU glass experts Hallie Meredith and John McCloy as well as glass blowing demonstrations on Terrell Mall in front of the museum. Follow the Glass Comes Alive in Pullman link for details.
About Ben Cobb
Through 25 years of working in glassblowing, Benjamin Cobb has honed his mastery of glass, traveled across the globe, and worked with hundreds of artists. An east-coast transplant, Cobb holds a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and has been a demonstrating artist at glass studios as far afield as Sweden, the Czech Republic, Italy, and France. He’s taught at Penland School of Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School, and many other glass programs in the US.
He’s a recognizable leader and voice in the glass community, and has contributed to the success of countless works of art. In his own work, Cobb draws inspiration from the natural world, as well as scientific processes. His work has been exhibited at Museum of Glass and the Museum of Northwest Art in LaConner, WA, and galleries across the country.

2023 | Art & Healing: Soundbath with Ambiente432
2023-06-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us Saturday, June 10 from 1:00-2:00pm for a sound bath experience with Nara Woodland of Brain Body Balance Sound Therapy. Nara’s sound bath will include frequencies from Ambiente432, an interactive sound sculpture created for the museum’s Pavilion Gallery by artist and composer Trimpin. After the sound bath, Kristin Becker, Curator of Education & Programs, will offer a short tour of Keiko Hara: Four Decades of Paintings and Prints in relation to the Art & Healing theme.
A sound bath is a meditative experience that uses intentional and soothing ambient sounds composed by the practitioner. Participants are bathed in deep sound vibrations while tuning in to a full-body listening experience. These frequencies can slow down brain waves to a deeply restorative state, activating the body’s parasympathetic nervous system. This is where the body begins its self-healing. Sound and vibration healing is an effective and proven modality that uses vibration and sound to help reduce stress, alter consciousness, and create a deep sense of peace, well-being and better health. Come and experience this collaboration between Nara Woodland and Ambiente432.
Please bring your own yoga mat, pillow and blanket, and a water bottle. A few extra yoga mats will be available if you do not have your own. Participants will be asked to sign a standard assumption of risk and release of liability form prior to the event. This event is free and open to the public, with donations welcome ($5–$20 recommended). First come, first served, so please arrive early.
Art & Healing is a continuing partnership between the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU and Pullman Regional Hospital.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR | Nara Woodland has lived on the Palouse for over 21 years. She has a background in fine art, and a passion for helping people. Nara is a Licensed and Certified Sound Therapy Practitioner, and she has a business in Pullman where she provides vibrational sound therapy sessions. Nara’s practice has seen a surge in community support and interest over the past two years. In addition to the individual sessions, she provides sound baths for Hospice patients, Pullman Regional Hospital staff, local doctors, schools, local businesses and non-profits. She frequently collaborates with skilled yoga practitioners and a therapist to offer layered healing components and deepen the understanding of the Bodymind connection.
ABOUT AMBIENTE432 | Comprised of 12 motion-responsive resonator horns suspended from the ceiling and organized in strategic configurations, this site-responsive installation explores the sound-space continuum, demonstrating how an architectural environment may coexist and harmonize with a kinetic sound sculpture. Like much of his previous work, Trimpin’s installation combines ancient methods with scientific principles and 21st century technology. Ambiente432 is tuned precisely to 432Hz. Known as Verdi’s ‘A’, this vibration frequency recurs in the tuning of ancient Tibetan singing bowls and Stradivarius instruments. 20th century physicist W. O. Schumann calculated the Earth’s rhythms at a cycle close to the fundamental frequency of 432Hz. Ambiente432 is ‘played’ by visitors themselves as they move through and activate the space, impacting their own immersive spatial and aural experience.
QUESTIONS? Contact Kristin Becker, Curator of Education & Programs: kristin.carlson@wsu.edu.
LOCATION & PARKING | The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Mall across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. The museum is currently open Tuesday through Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and closed Sunday and Monday. Parking is free in Green lots on Saturdays.

2023 | LandEscapes Release Party
2023-04-27 17:00 - 18:30 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us Thursday, April 27 for the LandEscapes Release Party!
WSU’s student-run art and literary journal will celebrate the release of their 2023 issue, with an accompanying program of readings by featured student authors. Original works of art published in the new issue of the journal will also be on display. Additional WSU publications will host tables at the event, including Blood Orange Review; The Palouse Review, a journal run by Honors College students; and May/Be, a magazine focused on the writings of Cougs about mental health.
This event is free and open to the public.
Location
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit museum.wsu.edu/about.

2023 | Reception for Dolores Huerta: Amplifying the Voices of Farmworkers
2023-04-03 14:00 - 18:30 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us for the National Farmworkers Awareness Week Closing Ceremony Reception on Monday, April 3, 2023 from 2:00-6:30 pm in the Pavilion Gallery of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU. During the reception visitors will be able to view highlights from the recent exhibition Our Stories, Our Lives: Irwin Nash Photographs of Yakima Valley Migrant Labor, organized in collaboration with WSU Libraries’ Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections and guest curated by Lipi Turner-Rahman.
After the reception, walk over to the CUB Auditorium to hear civil rights activist and community organizer Dolores Huerta speak about “Amplifying the Voices of Farmworkers” from 4:00-5:00 pm. Huerta, who is featured in Irwin Nash’s photo Boycott Protest: Dolores Huerta, 1968 (above), is visiting the WSU Pullman campus to talk to students and community leaders following the end of National Farmworkers Awareness Week (NFAW).
ABOUT | Dolores Huerta is a civil rights activist and community organizer. She has worked for labor rights and social justice for over 50 years. In 1962, she and César Chávez founded the United Farm Workers union. She served as Vice President and played a critical role in many of the union’s accomplishments for four decades. In 2002, she received the Puffin/Nation $100,000 prize for Creative Citizenship which she used to establish the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF). DHF is connecting groundbreaking community-based organizing to state and national movements to register and educate voters; advocate for education reform; bring about infrastructure improvements in low-income communities; advocate for greater equality for the LGBT community; and create strong leadership development. She has received numerous awards: among them The Eleanor Roosevelt Humans Rights Award from President Clinton in 1998. In 2012 President Obama bestowed Dolores with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.
Sponsored by CAMP, WSU Office of the President, WSU Office of the Chancellor and other generous campus partners.
IN THE NEWS | Civil rights activist Dolores Huerta speaks at WSU

2023 | Master of Fine Arts Thesis Artist Talks & Reception
2023-03-31 15:00 - 18:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us on Friday, March 31, from 3:00-4:00 p.m. for short talks by the four graduate candidates featured in the Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. Each artist will speak briefly to introduce the body of work they are presenting in the exhibition. The talks will be followed by an opening reception from 4:00-6:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public, please feel free to stop by and bring a friend!
Each year, the MFA Thesis exhibition provides a wide range of styles and stimulating experiences for faculty, students and local museum constituents representing the culmination of three years work by the Master of Fine Arts graduate candidates.
MFA THESIS CANDIDATES | This year’s MFA candidates are Shanda L. Stinebaugh, Adam Stuart, Sean Sullivan, and Allen Vu.
LOCATION | The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit https://museum.wsu.edu/about.

2023 | Reception with HT94 Curator & Anthropologist Jason De León
2023-03-02 15:30 - 17:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Reception with HT94 Curator & Anthropologist Jason De León
Thursday, March 2, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Join us for a reception at the museum with UCLA anthropologist Jason De León!
Join us Thursday, March 2 for the culmination of the Hostile Terrain 94 exhibition with HT94 founder and anthropologist Jason De León. De León and other special guests, including WSU faculty and students who have been engaged with the participatory aspects of HT94 at WSU, will be available to mingle with visitors. You can look forward to an evening of engaged discussion and reflection about Hostile Terrain 94 and issues of migration at the US-Mexico border.
Earlier in the day Jason De León will offer a Foley Institute Lecture from 12:00-1:00pm titled “The Land of Open Graves: Raising Awareness about Migrant Life and Death along the US/Mexico Border.” The HT94 exhibition is on view at the museum from January 17-March 11, 2023.
About Jason De León | Jason De León is Executive Director of the Undocumented Migration Project and the Colibrí Center for Human Rights, a 501(c)(3) research, arts, and education collective focused on raising awareness about issues related to migration and assisting families of missing migrants. De León is also Professor of Anthropology and Chicana, Chicano, and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of the award-winning book The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail and a 2017 MacArthur Fellow.
LOCATION | The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. The museum is currently open Tuesday through Friday from 1-4 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and closed Sunday and Monday.

2023 | Foley Institute Lecture with HT94 Curator & Anthropologist Jason De León
2023-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 | WSU Foley Institute, 308 Bryan Hall, Pullman, WA, 99164-5136
The Land of Open Graves:
Raising Awareness about Migrant Life and Death along the US/Mexico Border
Foley Institute Lecture with
HT94 Curator & Anthropologist Jason De León
Thursday, March 2, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
In Person: Foley Speaker’s Room, 308 Bryan Hall
Livestreamed via Foley Institute YouTube Channel
Join us for a Lecture with UCLA anthropologist Jason De León!
On Thursday, March 2nd at 12:00pm, anthropologist Jason De León will offer a lecture through the Foley Institute titled “The Land of Open Graves: Raising Awareness about Migrant Life and Death along the US/Mexico Border.” Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. federal government has relied on a border enforcement strategy known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.” Using various security infrastructure and techniques of surveillance, this strategy funnels undocumented migrants towards remote and rugged terrain such as the Sonoran Desert of Arizona with the hope that mountain ranges, extreme temperatures, and other “natural” obstacles will deter people from unauthorized entry. Since the 1990’s, thousands of people have died as a result of this policy. In this talk De León will discuss the politics of migrant death in Arizona, describe the ongoing global exhibition Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) that seeks to raise awareness about this issue, and highlight the new collaboration between the Undocumented Migration Project and the Colibrí Center for Human Rights. Hostile Terrain 94 is on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU from January 17-March 11, 2023.

Jason De León is Executive Director of the Undocumented Migration Project and the Colibrí Center for Human Rights, a 501(c)(3) research, arts, and education collective focused on raising awareness about issues related to migration and assisting families of missing migrants. De León is also Professor of Anthropology and Chicana, Chicano, and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of the award-winning book The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail and a 2017 MacArthur Fellow.

Stream the lecture on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@FoleyInstitute/streams

Hostile Terrain 94 Workshop
2023-02-24 14:00 - 15:30 | WA
Hostile Terrain 94 Workshop
Friday, February 24, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Pavilion Gallery, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Join us for our first workshop about Hostile Terrain 94, an upcoming participatory exhibition from the Undocumented Migration Project. Co-sponsored by the Center for Arts and Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU (JSMA), and the Office of the Provost, Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is an interactive exhibition comprised of approximately 3,800 handwritten toe tags representing migrants who died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert in Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019. The physical act of writing out the names and information for the dead invites participants to reflect, witness and stand in solidarity with those who have lost their lives in search of a better one.
In advance of the installation of this project at the Schnitzer Museum in January-March 2023, the toe tags will be filled out by members of our local community. We are seeking university and community-based groups—student and faculty organizations, service groups, classes, etc.—who would like to participate in this intentional activity during Winter 2023. Our first workshop on December 9 is an opportunity for interested parties to experience the participatory nature of the project by filling out tags, observing the site of installation, and reflecting on emotions related to and implications of the exhibition.
Additional workshops and activities for January, February, and March 2023 will be announced later this month. Visit WSU’s Hostile Terrain 94 website for updates on these opportunities. Our community’s engagement with Hostile Terrain 94 will culminate March 2, 2023, when HT94 founder and anthropologist Jason De León visits the WSU Pullman campus for a series of programs and events.
QUESTIONS? Contact Kristin Becker, Curator of Education & Programs: kristin.carlson@wsu.edu
LOCATION | The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. The museum is currently open Tuesday through Friday from 1-4 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and closed Sunday and Monday.

Artist Talk with Juventino Aranda
2023-02-23 16:30 | WSU Fine Arts, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Artist Talk with Juventino Aranda
Thursday, February 23, 4:30 p.m.
Fine Arts Auditorium
Livestreamed via Zoom Webinar
Join us for a Lecture with artist Juventino Aranda!
On Thursday, February 23 at 4:30 pm, artist Juventino Aranda will be giving a public talk in the Fine Arts Auditorium about his work in the exhibition Juventino Aranda: Esperé Mucho Tiempo Pa Ver. Aranda’s work expresses a search for identity and much of his recent work draws on family history and particularities of his childhood. Never fully ascribing to one cultural category, his artwork blends and manipulates the categories of painting and sculpture, craft and high art, and manufacturing and the handmade, as well as the formal and conceptual strategies of post-minimalist artists. Talk is free and open to the public.

Hostile Terrain 94 Workshop
2023-02-21 12:00 - 13:30 | WA
Hostile Terrain 94 Workshop
Tuesday, February 21, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Pavilion Gallery, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Join us for our first workshop about Hostile Terrain 94, an upcoming participatory exhibition from the Undocumented Migration Project. Co-sponsored by the Center for Arts and Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU (JSMA), and the Office of the Provost, Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is an interactive exhibition comprised of approximately 3,800 handwritten toe tags representing migrants who died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert in Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019. The physical act of writing out the names and information for the dead invites participants to reflect, witness and stand in solidarity with those who have lost their lives in search of a better one.
In advance of the installation of this project at the Schnitzer Museum in January-March 2023, the toe tags will be filled out by members of our local community. We are seeking university and community-based groups—student and faculty organizations, service groups, classes, etc.—who would like to participate in this intentional activity during Winter 2023. Our first workshop on December 9 is an opportunity for interested parties to experience the participatory nature of the project by filling out tags, observing the site of installation, and reflecting on emotions related to and implications of the exhibition.
Additional workshops and activities for January, February, and March 2023 will be announced later this month. Visit WSU’s Hostile Terrain 94 website for updates on these opportunities. Our community’s engagement with Hostile Terrain 94 will culminate March 2, 2023, when HT94 founder and anthropologist Jason De León visits the WSU Pullman campus for a series of programs and events.
QUESTIONS? Contact Kristin Becker, Curator of Education & Programs: kristin.carlson@wsu.edu
LOCATION | The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. The museum is currently open Tuesday through Friday from 1-4 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and closed Sunday and Monday.
