Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU

2024 | First Year Programs: Evening at the Museum
2024-09-10 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us on Tuesday, September 10th for an event hosted by the Common Reading Program
First Year Programs: Evening at the Museum
September 10, 2024, 4:00–6:00pm
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. Current exhibitions include The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation and Your Collection: Celebrating 50 Years.
See the museum’s calendar and the Common Reading Program Presence listings for additional programs this fall that relate to the 2024-25 Common Reading book, How the Other Half Eats, and The Art of Food exhibition.
Image | Sherrie Wolf, First Harvest, 2016
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 | Common Reading Series: "Ooh that stinky cheese…why do we love it so much?" with Dr. Soo-Yeun Lee
2024-09-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us on Thursday, September 19th for a talk in the Common Reading Series
September 19, 2024, 12:00–1:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Why do we love foods like stinky cheese or pungent kimchi? In this presentation, Ooh that stinky cheese…why do we love it so much?—Diversity of appreciation in olfaction, we’ll discuss the mechanism of olfaction (smell) and experience various fermented foods. Come and enjoy learning about the fermentation process as well as taste test a few beloved fermented products.
About | As a Sensory Scientist, Dr. Soo-Yeun Lee’s research program has aimed to encourage lifelong healthful eating habits by developing health-targeted food product alternatives and understanding consumer behavior in the context of food selection. Dr. Lee has investigated food systems intended for enhancing consumer health such as low sodium and low sugar foods without compromising taste. While her main mantra is ‘Taste is King,’ the main focus of her research has been on health.
Common Reading Series | The 2024-25 Common Reading Series at the museum is a collaboration between the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU and the WSU Common Reading Program. Talks in the series will address a wide variety of food-related topics to deepen our community’s understanding of this year’s common read, How the Other Half Eats by Priya Fielding-Singh, and The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation exhibition, on view at the art museum from August 20, 2024–March 8, 2025.
This talk is free and open to the public, with donations 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 | Community Perspectives Tour with Katie Forsythe
2024-09-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us on Friday, September 20th for a unique tour led by faculty from WSU’s Human Development Department
September 20, 2024, 12:00–1:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
It’s Fall Family Weekend! Join Scholarly Assistant Professor Katie Forsythe for a faculty perspective on innovative teaching in the museum. Forsythe has been bringing classes to the museum for the past three years and has developed activities for undergraduate students that engage the theme of curiosity. Open discussion among tour participants will be encouraged throughout the tour and will be facilitated by Kristin Becker, Curator of Education & Programs.
Community Perspective Tours invite individuals from our campus and wider community to speak about their unique interpretation of several works in the current exhibitions, charting connections among art, personal experience, and different disciplines.
This tour is free and open to the public, with donations welcome.
Image | Professor Katie Forsythe speaks with Human Development students in the art museum November 2023. Photo by Kristin Becker.
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 | Community Perspective Tours with WSU Museum Students
2024-09-21 11:00 - 14:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us on Saturday, September 21st for tours with experienced museum student visitor ambassadors
September 21, 2024, 11:00am, 12:00pm, and 1:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
It’s Fall Family Weekend! Join us at the museum for a Community Perspectives Tour led by one of our student ambassadors. Student ambassadors develop unique perspectives on individual works in our exhibitions as they work in the galleries each week. Join us at 11:00am, 12:00pm, or 1:00pm to hear about a handful of works in our current exhibitions, Your Collection: Celebrating 50 Years and The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.
Community Perspective Tours invite individuals from our campus and wider community to speak about their unique interpretation of several works in the current exhibitions, charting connections among art, personal experience, and different disciplines.
This tour is free and open to the public, with donations welcome.
Image | Student ambassador Brenda Castro. Photo by Kristin Becker.
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 | Celebrating 50 Years Reception and Book Release
2024-09-26 15:00 - 18:30 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us on Thursday, September 26th, celebrating 50 years as WSU’s art museum!
Celebrating 50 Years Reception and Book Release
September 26, 2024, 4:00-6:30pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Join us in celebrating 50 years at Washington State University’s art museum—from our inception as the Museum of Art/WSU up to the transformation into the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU. To mark this semi-centennial milestone, we are releasing a commemorative publication and a collection-based exhibition titled Your Collection: Celebrating 50 Years. Special guests include past museum directors, staff, and supporters including Jordan Schnitzer. The reception and book release with WSU Press will kick off at 4:00pm near the crimson donor wall, and there will be live music and appetizers. We invite you to be part of our anniversary celebration!
Printmaking Activity
3:00-4:00pm
Terrell Mall, in front of the museum
Weather-permitting, Kristin Becker, Curator of Education & Programs will offer a printmaking activity on Terrell Mall in front of the museum, with visitors pulling the last layer of a screenprint to take home. Additional copies are available for those who do not want to pull the print.
Live Music
5:00-6:30pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Darryl Singleton and Crimson Ties will play in the Pavilion Gallery from 5:00pm-6:30pm.
Funding for this program is provided by a grant from Jordan Schnitzer and The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation, the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities, and friends of the museum.
Image | Left to right, Bruce Guenther, Ken Spitzer, Keith Monaghan, Patricia Watkinson, Harold Balazs, Bob Nugent, Glenn Terrell, 1974
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 | The Art of Food: Tour, Public Square, and Pop-Up Community Market
2024-09-27 11:00 - 15:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us on Friday, September 27th for a series of events in coordination with our 50th anniversary celebration.
Join patron Jordan Schnitzer for an exclusive tour of the exhibition The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, then stay for a Public Square organized by the Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) on the topic of food insecurity for college students. Finally, learn about local produce and products in a Pop-Up Community Market in front of the museum on Terrell Mall. Enjoy an afternoon of free programming and activities celebrating the topic of food and its central importance in our lives.
The Art of Food: An Exhibition Tour led by Jordan D. Schnitzer
11:00-11:45am
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Starting off our programming for the day is a tour of the exhibition The Art of Food, featuring more than 100 works in a variety of media from the renowned collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation. Learn from Mr. Schnitzer himself how some of the most prominent artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have considered this universal subject, and how various works of art found their way into his collection. This is a wonderful opportunity to spend time with a prominent art collector and learn the stories behind this fascinating exhibition.
Common Reading Series: Public Square on Food Insecurity for College Students
12:00-1:15pm
In-person at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Livestream via WSU Global Campus YouTube
Join us for a Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) Public Square on the topic of food insecurity for college students. CCE’s Public Square program aims to connect WSU students, employees and community members through discussion on important issues that impact us all. Using the exhibition The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation and WSU’s 2024-25 Common Reading book, How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America as a point of departure, the moderated discussion will focus on food insecurity for college students throughout the state of Washington and beyond.
Participants include:

Sandra Alvarez, AmeriCorps Campus Food Resource Coordinator at the Cougar Food Pantry WSU and a Senior in Human Development
Deena Bayoumi, Mobile Food Stand Specialist, Community Action Center, Pullman, WA
Androu Luzader, an undergraduate research assistant at WSU studying Medical and Social Sciences
Claire MacPherson, Community Food Bank Gardener, Community Action Center, Pullman, WA
Merri Lecoq, Cougar Food Pantry Coordinator WSU (moderator)

All CCE Public Square events are free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome to share their thoughts on the discussion topic in a respectful way, as time allows. Students who wish to sign up via GivePulse, follow this GivePulse link.)
Public Square: Discussion on Food Insecurity for College Students is organized by the WSU Center for Civic Engagement in collaboration with the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU and the WSU Common Reading Program. The September 27, 2024 Public Square is part of the 2024-25 Common Reading Series co-curated by the WSU Schnitzer Museum and the WSU Common Reading Program.
Pop-Up Community Market
1:15-3:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU and Terrell Mall
Linger after the Public Square for a Pop-Up Community Market highlighting different ways food brings us together as a community, showcasing local produce and products as well as addressing food insecurity needs for the student population. Fresh produce and food will be free for students to take home from various vendors.
Campus and local organizations and growers will be available including:

Community Action Center’s Mobile Farm Stand
Cougar Food Pantry
Fork in the Road food truck
WSU’s Tukey Orchard
College Affordability Programs, Office of Academic Engagement, WSU
Office of the Dean of Students WSU: Benefits Navigator and Peer Health Educator
Dining Services WSU
WSU Honey Bees & Pollinators Program
WSU Eggert Family Organic Farm
International Center WSU
Pullman Good Food Coop
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services

Funding | Provided by a grant from Jordan Schnitzer and The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation, the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities, and friends of the museum.
Related CAHNRS Programs
Thursday, 9/26 and Saturday, 9/28
If you are interested in food insecurity-related topics, or you love local produce, please check out the following programs planned by the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences: Regenerative Agriculture Research Showcase (9/26, 2:00-4:00pm, CUB 1500); “Common Ground” Film Screening and Panel Discussion (9/26, 6:00-9:00pm, CUB Auditorium); and the Fall Harvest Festival at WSU Eggert Family Organic Farm (9/28, time TBA).
Image | Katherine Ace, Crop Circles 2, 2008
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. Parking is free in the Green lot off Grimes Way on Saturdays. For more information and a map please visit museum.wsu.edu/visit.

2024 | Community Perspectives Tour and Family Friendly Activity
2024-10-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us Saturday, October 12th for a tour with dietitian Marissa Collier and a family-friendly activity led by museum staff
Family Friendly Activity: The Art of Food
10:30am–12:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Join us for stories and an art activity about cooking, gardening, culture, and families, with K-3 ages in mind. Older children and adults are also welcome to participate. One adult from your party should remain with children and young adults at all times as they participate in the activity. This is a drop-in program, you may join us anytime between 10:30am-12:00pm.
Community Perspectives Tour with Dietitian Marissa Collier
11:00–11:45am
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Join Marissa Collier to hear a dietitian’s perspective on selected artworks in The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. Marissa Collier has been a registered dietitian for 6 years. She has spent most of that time working as a clinical dietitian and is currently working as the Director of Nutrition and Diabetes Care at Gritman Medical Center in Moscow, ID. Open discussion among tour participants will be encouraged throughout the tour and will be facilitated by Kristin Becker, Curator of Education & Programs.
Community Perspectives Tours invite individuals from our campus and wider community to speak about their unique interpretation of several works in the current exhibitions, charting connections among art, personal experience, and different disciplines.
The activities and the tour are free and open to the public, with donations welcome.
Marissa Collier’s tour is a John Mathews Friel Memorial Art Lecture, named for John Friel, a 1962 WSU Fine Arts graduate. Funding for these programs is also provided by a grant from Jordan Schnitzer and The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation and the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities.
Images | Left: David Gilhooly, Late/Lite Lunch, 1983. Right: Detail, Pavilion, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU.
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/visit. Parking is free in the Green 1 lot off Grimes Way on Saturdays. For more information and a map please visit museum.wsu.edu/visit.

2024 | Faculty Meet-and-Greet with Common Reading Author Priya Fielding-Singh
2024-10-15 17:00 - 18:30 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Meet Priya Fielding-Singh if you are using the Common Reading book in your class…
Faculty Meet-and-Greet with Priya Fielding-Singh
5:00pm–6:30pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Faculty and staff using “How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America” in classes and programming this academic year are invited to a meet-and-greet with author Priya Fielding-Singh. The event precedes the Common Reading Invited Lecture at 7:00 p.m. in the CUB Senior Ballroom, to which all members of the WSU and regional communities are invited at no cost.
Image | Book cover: “How the Other Half Eats” and author Priya Fielding-Singh.

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 | Open House: Museum's Permanent Collection Study Center
2024-10-18 16:00 - 19:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Learn about WSU’s permanent art collection!
Collection Study Center Open House
4:00pm–7:00pm, CSC Within the Department of Art WSU
Join us on October 18th from 4:00 to 7:00 pm for a peek behind the scenes of our collection’s open storage and discover how our collection fuels academic research and professional growth. View a selection of our extensive collection of art, featuring works by global icons from Jim Dine to Andy Warhol. Engage with our expert staff and witness firsthand our immense collection of visual culture spanning centuries. Whether you’re an aspiring artist, faculty, or simply curious about the power of creativity, this event promises a rare opportunity to view the museum’s vault of collected works. Mark your calendar and join us!
The Department of Art is also hosting its open house on Friday, Oct. 18, from 4–7 p.m.

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 | English Dept. Visiting Writer Series: Arisa White
2024-10-24 17:00 - 18:30 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us Thursday, October 24th for the WSU Department of English Visiting Writers Series!
Visiting Writers Series: Arisa White
5:00pm–6:30pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU and YouTube Stream
About | Arisa White is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Colby College. She is the author of Who’s Your Daddy, co-editor of Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart,and co-author of Biddy Mason Speaks Up, the second book in the Fighting for Justice Series for young readers. Her poetry is widely published, and her collections have been nominated for an NAACP Image Award, Lambda Literary Award, and have won the Per Diem Poetry Prize, Maine Literary Award, Nautilus Book Award, an Independent Publisher Book Award, and Golden Crown Literary Award. As the creator of the Beautiful Things Project, Arisa curates poetic collaborations that are rooted in Black queer women’s ways of knowing. She is a Cave Canem fellow and serves on the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance Community Advisory Board. Currently in development with composer Jessica Jones, Arisa is working on Post Pardon: The Opera.
Please visit the WSU Visiting Writers Series website for more information about the series.
This talk is free and open to the public.
Image | Author Arisa White and her book, “Who’s Your Daddy?”

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 | Common Reading Series: "Savoring Spokane: Exploring Its Iconic Eateries" with Author Adriana Janovich
2024-10-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us Friday, October 25th for a talk in the Common Reading Series
Common Reading Program: Savoring Spokane: Exploring Its Iconic Eateries with Author Adriana Janovich
12:00pm–1:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
What makes a restaurant stand out from the rest? And how do you capture its essence in 400 words or fewer? Adriana Janovich, author of Unique Eats and Eateries of Spokane: The People and Stories Behind the Food (Reedy Press, 2024), discusses her process for researching Spokane restaurants from A to Zip’s Drive-In—and the people and stories behind them—for her new book. A longtime newspaper writer, Janovich served as the food editor at the Spokane Spokesman-Review from 2013 to 2019 before coming to Washington State University as the associate editor at Washington State Magazine.
BookPeople of Moscow will be selling copies of the book at this event. You may reserve a copy ahead of time via the BookPeople website.
Common Reading Series | The 2024-25 Common Reading Series at the museum is a collaboration between the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU and the WSU Common Reading Program. Talks in the series will address a wide variety of food-related topics to deepen our community’s understanding of this year’s common read, How the Other Half Eats by Priya Fielding-Singh, and The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation exhibition, on view at the art museum from August 20, 2024–March 8, 2025.
This talk is free and open to the public, with donations welcome.
Image | Author Adriana Janovich with a Durkin’s burger and dishes at Luna, restaurants featured in Unique Eats and Eateries of Spokane: The People and Stories Behind the Food. Photos courtesy of Adriana Janovich.
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/visit.

2024 | Community Perspectives Tour with David Janssen Jr.
2024-11-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us on Friday, November 8th for a unique tour led by faculty from WSU’s Art Department
Community Perspectives Tour with David Janssen Jr., Scholarly Assistant Professor, Department of Art, WSU Pullman
12:00pm–1:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Join Scholarly Assistant Professor David Janssen Jr. for a teaching artist’s perspective on select works in the current exhibitions, including the work of Corita Kent featured in Your Collection: Celebrating 50 Years. Open discussion among tour participants will be encouraged throughout the tour and will be facilitated by Kristin Becker, Curator of Education & Programs.
David Janssen Jr. enjoys communicating with others through drawing, painting, collage, and typographic experimentation. He creates paintings with found objects, designs posters, and publishes zines, merging a passion for graphic design and a variety of 2D media. Mixing processes and materials—both by hand and digitally—is a rewarding challenge that keeps his creative process forgiving, heartfelt, and unpredictable.
Community Perspectives Tours invite individuals from our campus and wider community to speak about their unique interpretation of several works in the current exhibitions, charting connections among art, personal experience, and different disciplines.
This tour is free and open to the public, with donations welcome.
Image | Corita Kent, i wanna hold your hand, 1965.
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/visit.

2024 | Family Friendly Activities: Explore Together and Da Vinci Day!
2024-11-16 09:00 - 12:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us Saturday, November 16th for family-friendly activities with Northwest Public Broadcasting
Family Friendly Activities: Explore Together and Da Vinci Day!
9:00am–12:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Northwest Public Broadcasting presents Explore Together/Exploremos Juntos. Come celebrate Da Vinci Day! Meet PBS Kids’ Xavier Riddle from Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum and enjoy activities that demonstrate connections between art and STEM.
This event promotes LEONARDO da VINCI, the new PBS documentary about Leonardo da Vinci by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon, which will be broadcast November 18–19, 2024.
Family Friendly Activities | Art-making or other hands-on opportunities targeted toward K-3rd graders that connect to a theme from the current exhibitions. Older children and adults are also welcome to participate. Family Friendly Activities are scheduled on Saturdays.
Image | WSU Children’s Center Visit to the Schnitzer Museum WSU, October 2023.
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. Parking is free in the Green lot off Grimes Way on Saturdays. For more information and a map please visit museum.wsu.edu/visit.

2024 | Mount St. Helens Flatware Workshop
2024-11-16 12:00 - 15:00 | WSU Fine Arts, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us on Saturday, November 16th for a workshop creating Mount St. Helens ash-glazed flatware
Mount St. Helens Flatware Workshop
Saturday, November 16, 2025, 12:00pm–3:00pm
Fine Arts Building WSU: Ceramics Area on Level 4
Registration required: Nov 16 Workshop Registration (Registration is closed)
May 18, 2025 marks the 45th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. A significant portion of the 540 million tons of ash that spewed from the volcano settled across Central and Eastern Washington, and inventive ceramists in the region collected the ash to make beautiful glazes. To commemorate the explosive history of Mount St. Helens, the WSU Department of Art invites participation in the creation of 100 pieces of ash-glazed flatware. Workshop participants will learn about volcanic ash, assist in rolling slabs of clay, and shaping and decorating commemorative plates.* The commemoration will culminate on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU in connection with The Art of Food, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation: All 100 plates will be on display, accompanied by a program about the historical significance of the eruption at WSU and in our region.
This workshop is free and open to the public, but registration is required (see link above).
*NOTE: Workshop participants will not take home flatware after the workshop. Plates will be fired and glazed after November 16, and all participants are invited to the March 5 commemoration at the Schnitzer Museum to view all completed pieces of flatware.

2024 | Clay Club Sale
2024-11-19 10:00 - 2024-11-20 17:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
2024 Clay Club Sale
November 19, 20, 2024, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Pavilion Gallery, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Join us for the 2024 Clay Club Sale, taking place November 19 and 20, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Pavilion Gallery in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU. This biannual event showcases a curated collection of handcrafted ceramics created by WSU Department of Art students, faculty and staff ranging from functional tableware and intricate sculptures to unique collectibles. Organized by the WSU Clay Club, the sale offers students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to explore the creativity of emerging ceramic artists and find distinctive pieces perfect for personal collections or holiday gifts.
Proceeds directly support student’s travel to the prestigious National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference. Arrive early to ensure the best selection—pieces often sell out quickly. Your purchase not only supports local students but also helps sustain the educational mission of the Clay Club.
This year we will also host a raffle to win a trio of exquisite handmade cups made by artists Kassie Smith, Krista Brand and Io Palmer.
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/visit.

2025 | Community Perspectives Tour with Dr. Hallie Meredith
2025-01-16 16:00 - 17:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join Dr. Hallie Meredith for a tour of select works of glass in the museum’s collection
Thursday, January 16, 2025, 4:00-5:00pm
Samuel E. Smith Center for Undergraduate Education (Level 2 Atrium)
& Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Join Assistant Professor Dr. Hallie Meredith for an art historian and former glassblower’s perspective on select works of glass in the museum, including the Marian E. Smith Glass Collection, which highlights some of the most influential glass artists of the Pacific Northwest. From ancient functional objects such as mirrors and vessels to the most imaginative contemporary sculpture, glass objects are undeniably fascinating, both for their aesthetic qualities and as artworks that challenge us to consider the possibilities of their transformed raw materials. As an expert in ancient glass and a proponent of embodied learning, Dr. Meredith will share her unique interpretation while encouraging open discussion among tour participants.
This tour will convene in the Samuel E. Smith Center for Undergraduate Education (CUE) in the atrium on level 2 at 4pm, then move to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU around 4:30pm. A reception for the exhibition Your Collection: Faculty Remix will immediately follow this tour.
About | Hallie Meredith received her doctorate from Lincoln College, University of Oxford. Dr. Meredith is Assistant Professor of Art History at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington in the United States. She specializes in Late Antique Work, Craft Production, Communication with and on Portable Objects, and Ancient Technologies with a Glass emphasis. Her publications include, among others, Objects in Motion: The Circulation of Religion and Sacred Objects in the Late Antique and Byzantine World and Word becomes Image: Openwork Vessels as a Reflection of Late Antique Transformation. Most recently, she co-edited a journal special issue on late Roman inter-industry relations published in the Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies and co-authored an article on making Technical Art History accessible, published in Materia: The Journal of Technical Art History. Dr. Meredith is also working on a book on third to sixth century CE Roman craftworkers and their legacy with an emphasis on glassblowing.
Community Perspectives Tours invite individuals from our campus and wider community to speak about their unique interpretation of several works in the current exhibitions, charting connections among art, personal experience, and different disciplines.
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/visit.

2025 | Your Collection: Faculty Remix Exhibition Reception
2025-01-16 17:00 - 19:00 | WA
Join us to celebrate the opening of Your Collection: Faculty Remix
Exhibition Reception
Thursday, January 16, 2025, 5:00-7:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Join the museum and WSU Department of Art faculty on Thursday, January 16, 2025 from 5:00-7:00pm to celebrate the opening of Your Collection: Faculty Remix. For this exhibition, in continuing recognition of our 50th anniversary year, studio art faculty have been invited to collaborate by responding to works from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition and accompanying reception represent a continuation of the five-decade history and partnership between the museum and the Department of Art at WSU. Take this opportunity to mingle with the faculty artists, view the updated Your Collection exhibition, and enjoy appetizers and live music.
Live music will be offered by the WSU School of Music. The Equinox Brass Quintet will preview pieces from their January 24 Faculty Artist Series Performance. The quintet includes Dr. Chris Dickey, Sam Exline, Dr. Martin King, Dr. Sarah Miller, and Dr. David Turnbull. Additional music will be provided by Dr. Aaron Hill on saxophone.
Before the reception, from 4:00-5:00pm, join Dr. Hallie Meredith, Assistant Professor of Art History, for a Community Perspectives Tour of select works of glass in the museum’s collection. This tour begins in the Samuel E. Smith Center for Undergraduate Education (Level 2 Atrium).
Images | Lillian Pitt, Ancestors, 2006
Mana Mehrabian, Re(collection), 2024
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.

2025 | Writers Give Voice: Reading and Open Mic
2025-01-21 13:45 - 14:45 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us at the art museum for the National Day of Racial Healing 2025
Writers Give Voice: Reading and Open Mic
Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 1:45-2:45pm
Location: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
As part of the National Day of Racial Healing 2025, the museum and WSU’s English Department will host a reading and open mic program in response to the theme of the day, “Keep on Pushing: Building Bridges to Sustainability.” 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. Poems may be original compositions or selected from the work of another author, though they should engage with the themes of the day. Before and after the program, visitors are encouraged to view current museum exhibitions, including The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation and Your Collection: Faculty Remix.
In collaboration with the Holland Terrell Library’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC), the event will be accompanied by a letterpress printing of a relevant poem.
This program takes place live in the museum’s Pavilion Gallery and will be livestreamed on the WSU Global Campus YouTube channel.
Image | National Day of Racial Healing: Writers Give Voice Open Mic, January 16, 2024
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.

2025 | Community Perspectives Tour with Kevin Haas
2025-01-31 12:00 - 13:00 | WA
Join Printmaking Professor Kevin Haas for a tour of select works in the current exhibitions
Friday, January 31, 2025, 12:00–1:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Join Professor Kevin Haas for a printmaker’s perspective on select works in the current exhibitions, especially the series of screenprints by artist Ed Ruscha titled News, Mews, Pews, Brews, Stews & Dues (see Stews in the museum’s permanent collection database). Haas will also offer an overview of printmaking and print publishing, and open discussion among tour participants will be encouraged.
About | Kevin Haas is a contemporary artist who works in printmaking, drawing, and design. He is known for his prints in muted colors and coarse halftones, fragmented text phrases, and large print installations. Haas’s ongoing work explores themes of creative effort and permanence amid uncertainty and anxiety. Haas has exhibited extensively around the United States and Canada and his work has also been recognized through participation in prestigious artist residencies. Since 2000 he has taught courses on printmaking, design, and book arts at Washington State University, where he coordinates the printmaking studios and the Bookforms Library. Visit kevinhaas.comto learn more about Kevin Haas and his work. Work by Haas is also featured in the current exhibition, Your Collection: Faculty Remix, on view January 14 through June 28, 2025.
Image | Kevin Haas, Detail of “Flammable Document (Fathomless Vacuousness),” 2024
Common Reading Series invite individuals from our campus and wider community to speak about their unique interpretation of several works in the current exhibitions, charting connections among art, personal experience, and different disciplines.

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.

2025 | La Granada: Short Films Inspired by Food
2025-02-03 17:00 - 18:30 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us for La Granada and other short films inspired by food
Monday, February 3, 2025, 5:00–6:30 p.m.
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU

RSVP LINK

Join WSU student filmmaker Hollen Foster-Grahler at the museum for a screening of her short film La Granada. Shot in Aberystwyth, Wales, the film is a visual journey exploring feminine rage, empowerment, and community through surrealist imagery and movement. The title and central emblem of the film, la granada, is the Spanish word for both “pomegranate” and “grenade”—simultaneously a symbol of femininity and destruction. Through this dual meaning, the film examines the precarious nature of womanhood: What happens when that potential energy is finally released?
La Granada will be screened with another short film, Raspando Coco, directed by Pilar Egüez Guevara, that also draws inspiration from food, in connection with the museum’s current exhibition The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. After the screening, we will facilitate discussion and Q&A, and there will be additional time to view The Art of Food exhibition. (The galleries will open at 4pm for visitors who wish to view the exhibition in advance of the films.) Light refreshments will be provided; semi-formal attire is encouraged. Please RSVP to attend: See link above.
This program is sponsored by SEB Arts & Spotlight, as well as STAGE and Honors Student Advisory Council.
Image | Film stills from La Granada by Hollen Foster-Grahler

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.

2025 | Common Reading Series: Artist Marilyn Lysohir
2025-02-06 16:00 - 17:30 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join artist Marilyn Lysohir for a talk about art and chocolate
Artist’s Talk
Thursday, February 6, 2025, 4:00-5:30pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Join Moscow-based artist Marilyn Lysohirto learn about the history of chocolate and how it has influenced her artistic practice. Lysohir’s first job was at a candy store in Pennsylvania and she took a break from her art career to start Cowgirl Chocolates in Moscow, ID in the mid-1990s. Lysohir’s life-sized ceramic work Bad Manners is currently on view as part our 50th anniversary exhibition, Your Collection: Faculty Remix, on view January 14 through June 28, 2025.
Come for the talk, stay for a bite of complimentary chocolate and a coupon to Moscow Candy, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Moscow Candy is co-owned by Lysohir and Carise Skinner.
Funding for this program is provided by the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities.

About | Marilyn Lysohir was born in the rust belt town of Sharon, Pennsylvania, and earned a Bachelor’s Degree at Ohio Northern University 1972. She moved to Pullman, Washington, to attend graduate school at Washington State University and earned her MFA in 1979. She moved across the Idaho state line to Moscow and began her art career, breaking ground as a young, female ceramic sculptor. As a ceramist in the early 1980s, Lysohir had to push against the boundaries of being labeled a craft artist. She was one of the unique artists of her generation to see the possibilities of ceramics as a sculpture medium and earned the reputation as one of the leading ceramic artists of the 1980s. Her first solo exhibition was in 1984 in Los Angeles, where she showed a major ceramic installation, Bad Manners (Version 1). Lysohir was adjunct professor at WSU-Pullman from 1979-1985 and has served as visiting art professor at numerous universities including Kansas City Art Institute, University of Idaho, and New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Her list of accolades includes lectures, workshops, and two Kohler Factory Arts in Industry Program residences.
Common Reading Series | The 2024-25 Common Reading Series at the museum is a collaboration between the Schnitzer Museum WSU and the WSU Common Reading Program. Talks in the series will address a wide variety of food-related topics to deepen our community’s understanding of this year’s common read, How the Other Half Eats by Priya Fielding-Singh, and The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation exhibition, on view at the art museum from August 20, 2024–March 8, 2025.

Image | Marilyn Lysohir, Bad Manners Version 2, 1988-89; Ceramic elements, wooden chairs, and table; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU Permanent Collection, Gift of the artist.

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.

2025 | Workshop: Love Letter Zines with David Janssen Jr.
2025-02-08 13:00 - 15:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Create a zine that expresses something about the things you LOVE
Workshop
Saturday, February 8, 2025, 1:00-3:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Workshop is full, but you may register for the waitlist using this Qualtrics Survey
During this workshop we will talk about love and receive an introduction to zines: What is a zine and how do you make one? Using current museum exhibitions, we will discuss artists and makers who use similar themes and feelings in their work. Finally, we will be challenged to create a zine that expresses something about things you LOVE with creative words and images. We will use mixed media processes including collage, free form poetry, illustrations, and more. All are welcome: Enjoy a relaxing workshop and make loving and tender artworks inspired by love.
This workshop is free and open to the public, but registration is required (see above). Up to 20 people may register. When registration is full, a waitlist will be activated and waitlisted individuals will be contacted.
Funding for this program is provided by the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities.
About the Artist | This workshop will be led by Scholarly Assistant Professor David Janssen Jr. from the Department of Art at WSU Pullman. Janssen enjoys communicating with others through drawing, painting, collage, and typographic experimentation. He creates paintings with found objects, designs posters, and publishes zines, merging a passion for graphic design and a variety of 2D media. Mixing processes and materials—both by hand and digitally—is a rewarding challenge that keeps his creative process forgiving, heartfelt, and unpredictable. David Janssen Jr.’s art is featured in the current exhibition, Your Collection: Faculty Remix, which on view January 14 through June 28, 2025.
Workshops offer adults an opportunity to explore artmedia or art concepts under the guidance of a practicing artist and in connection with a theme from the current exhibitions.

Image | David Janssen Jr. Inside Yelling Zines. 2024.

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.

2025 | Common Reading Series: Feasting and Fasting in Religious Traditions with Kristine Zakarison
2025-02-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join Kristine Zakarison for a talk about feasting and fasting rituals in different religions
Common Reading Series Talk
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 12:00-1:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
We enter into this world, among other things—hungry! Shortly before we draw our last breath, we begin our final journey by voluntarily abstaining from food and even water. In the course of our lives, regardless of ethnicity or class, we come together and share food in times of celebration and remembrance, and we may find ourselves forgoing food at times of trauma or sorrow. This rhythm of the human body, one of feasting at times, and other times fasting, has been ritualized in spiritual life in many religions, cultures, and historical moments. As the global community looks ahead to the start of three major religions’ observances—Ramadan (February 28), Lent (March 4), and Passover (April 12)—come join us for this talk by Kristine Zakarison, a retired minister of the United Church of Christ.
About | Kristine Zakarison is a third-generation daughter of the Palouse, and as such has worn many “hats” in the community. The connecting threads are respect for this land, being of service to the community, and a desire to help others feel better. She is a retired minister of the United Church of Christ and has over 25 years of experience teaching yoga. She is the owner and a teacher of Nia and yoga at Aloft Studio in Pullman, as well as offering Yoga Therapy to individuals and groups.
Hosted by the WSU Pullman Common Reading Program and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU.
Image | The Art of Food exhibition: Katherine Ace; Crop Circles 2 (detail); 2008; Oil, alkyd, mixed media on canvas; Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer

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.

2025 | Tour & Family Friendly Activity: "The Art of Food" and National Nutrition Month
2025-03-01 10:30 - 12:30 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
In observance of National Nutrition Month, join us for a tour and family-friendly activity
Family-Friendly Activity & Exhibition Tour
Saturday, March 1, 2025, 10:30am-12:30pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
In observance of National Nutrition Month with Pullman Public Schools and Pullman Parks & Recreation Department, join us for a drop-in family-friendly art activity between 10:30am and 12:30pm, and a tour of The Art of Food exhibition beginning at 11:00am. Staff and students from the WSU Horticulture Center will join us at the museum during this program, as well as Jessie Campbell, Nutrition Services Supervisor from the Pullman School District, and Martha Flores, a registered dietitian with WSU Dining Services.
Family Friendly Activity: Collage Garden
10:30am–12:30pm
Join us for a collage-making activity engaging themes of gardening and community, with K-3 ages in mind. Older children and adults are also welcome to participate. One adult from your party should remain with children and young adults at all times as they participate in the activity. This is a drop-in program, you may join us anytime between 10:30am-12:30pm.
Exhibition Tour: The Art of Food
11:00–11:45am
Join a tour of selected artworks in The Art of Food, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, with National Nutrition Month in mind. Open discussion among tour participants will be encouraged throughout the tour, led by Kristin Becker, Curator of Education & Programs.
Free and open to the public, with donations welcome.
These programs are part of the 2025 National Nutrition Month Food Connects Us community events series in collaboration with Pullman Public Schools Healthy Meal Incentives Grant and Pullman Parks and Recreation Department. See page 29 of the Pullman Parks and Recreation Winter/Spring Activity Guide for a full list of Food Connects Us events in Pullman. Additional funding for the programs at the museum is provided by the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities.

Image | Collage Garden Activity from October 12, 2024

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.

2025 | Mount St. Helens Commemoration & Flatware Program
2025-03-05 16:00 - 17:30 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
ONE DAY ONLY: View the display of 100 ash-glazed plates created in the WSU ceramics lab
Mount St. Helens Commemoration and Flatware Program
Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 4:00-5:30pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
May 18, 2025 marks the 45th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. A significant portion of the 540 million tons of ash that spewed from the volcano settled across Central and Eastern Washington, and inventive ceramists in the region collected the ash to make beautiful glazes. To commemorate the explosive history of Mount St. Helens, the WSU Art Department invited participation in the creation of 100 pieces of flatware which were then finished using Mt. St. Helens ash glazes developed in the WSU ceramics lab. Workshop participants—including students and community members—learned about volcanic ash, assisted in rolling clay, and shaped one or more plates. Participants were also invited back to glaze plates once they were bisque fired. Additional plates were made and glazed by WSU students, faculty, and staff during ceramics classes and clay club sessions.
The commemoration culminates on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU in connection with The Art of Food, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. All 100 plates will be on display starting at 10am, accompanied by a program at 4pm about the significance of the eruption at WSU and in our region. Kassie Smith, Ceramics Technician for the WSU Department of Art, will speak about Mt. St. Helens ash and the eruption in relation to the ceramics community past and present. Mark O’English, University Archivist for WSU, will share some stories from the archives about the WSU community’s reaction to the eruption.
The plates will be given away at the event for a suggested donation per plate on a first come first served basis beginning at 4:00pm, with donations going to support regional food insecurity. Donations will be collected by the Pullman’s Community Action Center via credit card machine/PayPal/Venmo. When you arrive at the program you may claim a plate once you make a donation by placing a sticker on the bottom with your name. We ask that the plates remain on the display table until hors d’oeuvres are served during the second half of the program so visitors may view all 100 plates.
Hors d’oeuvres created by Knead Café and Pâtisserie. A gluten-free option will be available.
Organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and the WSU Art Department, with special thanks to Io Palmer and Kassie Smith. Funding for this program is provided by the Office of the Chancellor WSU and by a grant from Jordan Schnitzer and The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation.

Image | Ash glaze samples shown at the Mt. St. Helens Flatware Workshop on November 16, 2024

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.

2025 | Master of Fine Arts Thesis Artists' Talks and Reception
2025-04-04 15:00 - 18:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Celebrate the Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
Artists’ Talks and Reception
Friday, April 4, 2025, 3:00–6:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Join us for Family Weekend on Friday, April 4 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. for artists’ talks by the graduate candidates featured in the Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. This year’s candidates will each 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.

Images | MFA Thesis Graduate Candidates: Abigail Nnaji, Anna Le, Cameron Kester, and Sara St. Clair

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.

2025 | Pyromaniacs Clay Club Sale
2025-04-09 10:00 - 2025-04-10 16:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Pyromaniacs Clay Club Sale
Wednesday-Thursday, April 9-10, 2025, 10:00am–4:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU

Join us for the 2025 Pyromaniacs Clay Club Sale, taking place April 9th & 10th, from 10:00am to 4:00pm in the Pavilion Gallery in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU. This biannual event showcases a curated collection of handcrafted ceramics created by WSU students, faculty and staff, ranging from functional tableware and intricate sculptures to unique collectibles. Organized by the WSU Pyromaniacs Clay Club, the sale offers all community members an opportunity to explore the creativity of emerging and established ceramic artists and find distinctive pieces perfect for personal collections or gifts.

Proceeds directly support student’s travel to the prestigious National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference in 2025 and again in 2026. Arrive early to ensure the best selection—pieces often sell out quickly. Your purchase not only supports local students but also helps sustain the educational mission of the Pyromaniacs Clay Club.
Clay Club Eligibility: Any current WSU student may enroll in Art Department courses. Any student enrolled in any art course, as well as any student who has taken ceramics at WSU in the past, is eligible to join Clay Club.

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.

2025 | Story Hour & Family Friendly Activities
2025-04-11 10:00 - 12:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us the second Saturday of every month, October through June*, for a story hour and family-friendly activities.
Saturday, April 11, 2025
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
A featured children’s book will be read at 10:00am, followed by a tour and an art activity for young learners K-5 and their caregivers. All ages are welcome to join. Drop in anytime between 10:00am and 12:00pm. Caregivers must remain with children at all times.
Upcoming Saturday Dates:
May 9, 2026
June 13, 2026
*Exception: In January 2026, this takes place on third Saturday, January 17, due to museum closure in early January.
Location & Parking
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 see the museum’s Visit page. Hourly parking is available in the Smith Center Garage off Stadium Way. See the 2024-25 WSU Pullman Parking map, WSU Transportation Services, and/or contact the Brelsford Visitor Center for additional campus parking advice.

2025 | Finding A Home for Your Creative Writing: A Literary Publishing Panel
2025-04-17 13:00 - 15:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us Thursday, April 17 for a literary publishing panel
Join a panel of well-published creative writing faculty from the Honors College and English Department for a discussion of recent book publications, paths to publication, and ideas for finding a publisher of your own. Q&A to follow. Refreshments provided.
Featured panelists include:

Peter Chilson
Buddy Levy
Jeff. P. Jones
Annie Lampman
Cameron McGill
Lauren Westerfield
Grant Maierhofer
Colin Criss (moderator)

Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Honors College, WSU.

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.

2025 | LandEscapes Release Party
2025-04-24 16:00 - 17:00 | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson RD, Pullman, WA, 99164-7301, United States
Join us Thursday, April 24 for the LandEscapes Release Party!
WSU’s student-run art and literary journal will celebrate the release of their 2025 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.
Image | Cover image from LandEscapes 2025: Bronwen LaPorte, Through the Eyes of Cosmonauts
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.
