EXHIBITION: Curators’ Choices: The Greg Kucera & Larry Yocom Collection at WSU Museum
2016-01-14 10:00 - 2016-03-25 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Museum of Art/WSU, Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus, Pullman, WA, 99164, United States
Please join us for the exhibition Curators’ Choices: The Greg Kucera & Larry Yocom Collection.
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT | Distinguished as one of the Northwest’s longest-standing and respected gallerists, Seattle resident Greg Kucera with his husband Larry Yocom, have also built an extensive private art collection. Assembled collaboratively over a 30-year span, the Kucera/Yocom collection focuses primarily on contemporary and historic art of the Northwest, while encompassing many significant works by internationally-known artists. Varied and nuanced, their collection contains additional holdings of erotica, including Japanese shunga, as well as objects by self-taught makers and decorative arts from the world-over.
ABOUT THE COLLECTION | Collection-building at such an involved level is ultimately a highly personal curatorial enterprise, following themes of interest “with eyes that remain fresh” on the lookout for unexpected expressions of creativity. Our exhibition honors the selectivity of Greg and Larry, and reflects further shaping by the curatorial team here at Museum of Art. Additionally, the exhibition affords us an opportunity to survey a cultural ecosystem where artist, dealer, collector, curator, and the public-at-large all have key contributions to make.
LOCATION | The Museum of Art is located on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium in the Fine Arts Center on the WSU Pullman campus. Gallery hours are Monday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Thursday open until 7 pm, *Closed Sunday*. For more information please contact the museum at (509) 335-1910. To learn more, please visit our website at http://museum.wsu.edu/, or find us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube!

EXHIBITION: 2016 MFA THESIS, Museum of Art/WSU
2016-04-04 10:00 - 2016-05-07 16:00 | Museum of Art/WSU, Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus, Pullman, WA, 99164, United States
Come enjoy the MFA Thesis Exhibit & Reception, April 8, 6-8 p.m.
MFA Thesis Exhibition: April 4 – May 7, 2016
Reception: April 8, 6-8 pm, Museum of Art Gallery
This annual showcase represents the culmination of two or more years work by the Master of Fine Arts graduate candidates. This exhibition always provides a wide range of styles and stimulating experiences for faculty, students and local museum visitors. MFA Thesis candidates are: Dani Brooks, Alx Dockter, Kayleigh Lang, Nicole Nee, Dylan Steinmetz, and Kayla White.
Funding for this exhibition is provided by the Members of the Museum of Art, the Samuel H. and Patricia W. Smith Art Endowment, the College of Liberal Arts, and the Department of Fine Arts.
For more information on our MFA Thesis Candidates, please click here to view their interviews and here to join the reception.
GALLERY HOURS | Monday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Thursdays until 7 p.m., *Closed Sunday*. Admission FREE.
LOCATION | The Museum of Art is located on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium in the Fine Arts Center on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please contact Jonathon Matteson at js.matteson@wsu.edu. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Thursday open until 7 p.m., closed Sunday.

FREE ARTIST TRUST CAREER WORKSHOP, MUSEUM/WSU
2016-04-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Museum of Art/WSU, Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus, Pullman, WA, 99164, United States
ARTIST TRUST AT LARGE WORKSHOP / WSU MUSEUM PULLMAN
Monday, April 18, 12-1pm, Museum of Art / Washington State University
ABOUT THE PROGRAM |
Looking to give your arts career a boost? In this free one-hour presentation, Artist Trust Spokane Program Coordinator and artist Anne-Claire Mitchell gives you the scoop on how Artist Trust can help. You’ll learn how Artist Trust serves Washington State Artists of all disciplines and how you can use these programs and resources to advance your arts business. A Q&A session will follow the presentation.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER |
Anne-Claire Mitchell, Artist Trust, Spokane Program Coordinator
Anne-Claire coordinates professional development and assists with Artist Trust grant-making support programs in Spokane County. She was born and raised in Spokane. She has worked as a project coordinator in the renewable energy industry, generating project and funding opportunities in Eastern WA. She co-founded the Richmond Art Collective (RAC) in downtown Spokane and also manages operations at RAC’s primary exhibition space. Anne-Claire is an artist herself. Her practice is cross-disciplinary, intersecting 2-D work, digital media, and music, especially through collaboration. She’s involved with several Spokane-based arts organizations and programs including INK ArtsSpace, Girl’s Rock Lab, Spokane Women in Art & Media, the Downtown Spokane Murals Project, and the Laboratory Spokane Artist Residency.

Marian E. Smith Glass Collection Reception & Demonstration of Ancient Egyptian Glass Technique
2016-04-27 16:00 - 17:30 | Museum of Art/WSU, Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus, Pullman, WA, 99164, United States
JOIN US FOR A RECEPTION! | The Museum of Art/WSU hopes you will join us to celebrate the Marian E. Smith Glass Collection at a reception which will include a demonstration of the ancient Egyptian art of glass blowing, April 27, 2016. This event will begin at 4:00 pm and end at 5:30 pm and will be held on the main floor atrium of the CUE (Smith Center for Undergraduate Education). There is no admission fee.
This event is honoring student research of the Marian E. Smith Glass Collection, edited and organized by Dr. Hallie G. Meredith, a professor of the WSU Fine Arts department, in collaboration with the Museum of Art/WSU. The reception will be followed by an ancient Egyptian glass demonstration. The Material Advantage Club and Dr. John McCloy, Assoc. Professor in the School of Mechanical & Materials Eng.; Joint appointee Pacific NW National Lab will be facilitating the demonstration.
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GLASS BLOWING DEMONSTRATION | To learn more about our demonstration of the ancient Egyptian glass core-formed technique, please view this 2 minute video.
LOCATION | Main floor atrium of The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education (CUE), located south of the CUB and Martin Stadium, just behind the police station off Terrell Mall.
CONTACT | For more information please phone Dr. Hallie G. Meredith at 509-335-7043.
A special thanks to Marian E. Smith, Samuel H. and Patricia W. Smith and the Members of the Museum of Art for their continued support.

2016 From the Collection: New Acquisitions | WSU Museum Exhibition
2016-05-17 12:00 - 2016-07-01 16:00 | Museum of Art/WSU, Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus, Pullman, WA, 99164, United States
FROM THE COLLECTION: NEW ACQUISITIONS
EXHIBITION | May 17 – July 1, 2016
Over the last five years, the Museum of Art/WSU has added more than 500 works of art to the permanent collection through generous gifts of the museum’s friends. Now totaling approximately 3500 unique objects, the collection provides a lasting legacy of the 20th and 21st centuries’ visual language. Held and cared for in our community’s trust, the collection is a campus educational resource and foundation for approaching emergent art forms we can only begin to imagine.
From the Collection: New Acquisitions puts on view, in many instances for the first time, selections from collection newcomers. These works have deepened holdings of previously collected artists and serve to introduce new artists to us. The exhibition also serves as a reminder of the generosity of many donors who understand the value of sharing great art with our community.
Recent significant gifts include 35 original works of Northwest art from the Seattle Art Museum, 201 original prints by the contemporary American artist Jim Dine, and 174 prints and photographs by Andy Warhol from the Andy Warhol Foundation. The Museum has received 8 outstanding examples of contemporary art making from the Greg Kucera Gallery and 4 works on paper by the recently deceased artist Rick Bartow from Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and Froelick Gallery, Portland. Additionally, exceptional donations of artwork have been accepted from individuals, such as Scott Patnode’s gift of 5 American and British works, Jane Orleman’s donation of her late husband Richard C. Elliott’s prints, Patricia Patterson’s donation of prints by Sister Mary Corita Kent, and Sean Elwood’s continued giving—tallying over 300 artworks. It is only through such philanthropy that museum collections grow and our horizons evolve.
FUNDING | Funding for this exhibition is provided by the Members of the Museum of Art and the Samuel H. and Patricia W. Smith Art Endowment.
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SPECIAL THANKS | This exhibition benefited from student curatorial involvement from the following individuals: Kendra Fleharty, Haley Markham, and Jonathon Matteson.

CHRIS WATTS | 2016 Fine Arts Faculty Focus Exhibition
2016-08-22 10:00 - 2016-09-17 16:00 | Museum of Art/WSU, Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus, Pullman, WA, 99164, United States
The Museum of Art/WSU announces a retrospective journey in a Fine Arts Faculty Focus Exhibition by artist Chris Watts, Aug. 22– Sept. 17. An opening reception will be held 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, in the Museum of Art gallery with a talk given by the artist at 7 p.m. Admission to the museum is free.
The Museum of Art has a long-standing tradition of presenting work by department of Fine Arts faculty members. Since 2004, these exhibits have alternated large group shows with a biennial exhibit showcasing a recently retired faculty member. This year the museum presents a retrospective exhibit of Chris Watts’ work, who retired in 2015, after 27 years of teaching drawing and painting at WSU.
ABOUT | Citing influences as diverse as Bronze Age monuments, spirals and mazes, Pythagoras, counting processes, scientific structures, bell ringing, Theosophy, and the geometric tradition in art; Chris Watts’ work represents a long-term inquiry into systems of order, patterning, and to a certain degree, spiritual or esoteric ideas. His investigation of the underlying structures of the world around us—expressed through drawings, paintings and constructions—connects Watts to a long lineage of peoples who have organized worldviews through pattern and abstract form.
LOCATION | The Museum of Art is located on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium in the Fine Arts Center on the WSU Pullman campus. Gallery hours are Monday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., open until 7 p.m. on Thursdays and closed on Sundays. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.
SPECIAL THANKS | This exhibit is funded by the Members of the Museum of Art and the Samuel H. and Patricia W. Smith Arts Endowment.

2016 COUGAR COMIX JAM | Hosted by Museum/WSU at Rico's Pub
2016-09-22 17:00 - 22:00 | Rico’s Pub, Pullman, WA, 99163, United States
JOIN THE MUSEUM OF ART AT RICO’S PUB IN DOWNTOWN PULLMAN
Thursday, September 22 from 5-10pm.
Northwest Alternative Comics artists Max Clotfelter and Tom Van Deusen with be coming to town on September 22nd to host an informal zine making workshop at Rico’s Pub from 5pm to 10pm. Max and Tom will be talking about their comics making process as well as leading participants through the creation of an actual underground zine that will be printed and released at the opening of the NW Alternative Comics Exhibition at the Museum of Art Gallery on October 6. Materials will be provided by the pub, all you’ll need to do is show up and “jam” on one of the pages of the zine. There will be group comic exercises for novices, but anyone who already likes drawing comics can show up and draw. All skill levels and ages are encouraged to participate, everyone is welcome!
Notes | Participants are encouraged to show up at 5pm. Materials will be provided. Admission is free. Minors seated until 7pm.
ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING
ARTIST MURAL COLLABORATION: Fri, 9/23,10am-4pm, MOA Gallery | Watch Seattle cartoonists Tom Van Deusen and Max Clotfelter paint a 12×16 foot mural as curators prepare for the opening 9/26.
PETER BAGGE ARTIST LECTURE: Thurs, 11/3, 6pm, MOA Gallery | Join Peter Bagge, as he weaves the story of the NW alternative comics scene and his career as Weirdo magazine’s managing editor.
LOCATION | The Museum of Art is located on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium in the Fine Arts Center on the WSU Pullman campus. Gallery hours are Monday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., open until 7 p.m. on Thursdays and closed on Sundays. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.

2016 MURAL COLLABORATION | with artists Tom Van Deusen and Max Clotfelter in the Museum/WSU Gallery
2016-09-23 10:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Art/WSU, Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus, Pullman, WA, 99164, United States
JOIN THE MUSEUM FOR AN ARTIST MURAL COLLABORATION IN THE GALLERY
Friday, September 23 from 10am-4pm
Seattle cartoonists Tom Van Deusen and Max Clotfelter will be in the Museum of Art gallery space painting a 12’ x 16’ foot mural for the NW Alternative Comics exhibition. This is a rare opportunity to see both artists and curators at work as they prepare the installation and mural for the Norhtwest Alternative Comics exhibit which opens on Monday, September 26th.
Notes | Open to the public. Admission is free.
ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING
PETER BAGGE ARTIST LECTURE: Thurs, 11/3, 6pm, MOA Gallery | Join Peter Bagge, as he weaves the story of the NW alternative comics scene and his career as Weirdo magazine’s managing editor.
LOCATION | The Museum of Art is located on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium in the Fine Arts Center on the WSU Pullman campus. Gallery hours are Monday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., open until 7 p.m. on Thursdays and closed on Sundays. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.

2016 FALL | NW Alternative Comics Exhibition
2016-09-26 10:00 - 2016-12-17 16:00 | Museum of Art/WSU, Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus, Pullman, WA, 99164, United States
The Museum of Art/WSU announces a Northwest Alternative Comics Exhibition, Sep. 26–Dec. 17. AN OPENING RECEPTION WILL BE HELD 5-7 PM THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, IN THE MUSEUM OF ART GALLERY. Admission to the museum is free.
ABOUT | The Northwest is seen by many as the birthplace of alternative comics, a genre which blended the legacy of Bay-Area “underground comix” with a DIY punk-ethos, while in step with a burgeoning independent music scene. Coalescing around The Evergreen State College in the early 1980s, gifted cartoonists Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, and Charles Burns published their comic strips in small alternative weeklies, helping to lay the foundation for the cultural phenomenon that would develop around Seattle in the 1990s. Originally underground and bohemian-based, today the regional comic scene is bigger and more active than ever before.
Northwest Alternative Comics will feature a select sampling of emerging and highly-recognized artists and illustrators who make up the alternative comics genre of our region. With an emphasis on individuals who are willing to reinvent the way we look at and experience the art of comics and graphic arts, our exhibition offers an alternative to mainstream superhero comics by highlighting diverse narratives and new visual formats. The exhibition includes artists Peter Bagge, Paul Chadwick, Max Clotfelter, Taylor Dow, Ellen Forney, Eroyn Franklin, David Lasky, Mita Mahato, Tom Van Deusen and Jim Woodring. Special thanks to exhibit advisors Larry Reid of Fantagraphics Books and Casey Bruce of Danger Room Comics.
COUGAR COMIX JAM: Thurs, 9/22, 5-10pm, Rico’s Pub, Downtown Pullman
Learn to make comic zines with Tom and Max. Materials are provided – just show up and “jam”!
ARTIST MURAL COLLABORATION: Fri, 9/23,10am-4pm, MOA Gallery
Watch Seattle cartoonists Tom Van Deusen and Max Clotfelter paint a 12×16 foot mural as curators prepare for the opening 9/26.
PETER BAGGE ARTIST LECTURE: Thurs, 11/3, 6pm, MOA Gallery
Join Peter Bagge, as he weaves the story of the NW alternative comics scene and his career as Weirdo magazine’s managing editor.
LOCATION | The Museum of Art is located on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium in the Fine Arts Center on the WSU Pullman campus. Gallery hours are Monday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., open until 7 p.m. on Thursdays and closed on Sundays. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.

2016 FALL | Creativity as a Solo and Collaborative Pursuit: A Conversation With Cartoonist Eroyn Franklin
2016-10-05 13:10 - 14:30 | Museum of Art/WSU, Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus, Pullman, WA, 99164, United States
Join artist Eroyn Franklin as she presents a comic reading, discussion and video!
DETAILS | Wednesday, October 5th, 1:10pm – 2:30pm, MOA Gallery
ABOUT | Eroyn Franklin is a Seattle-based maker of comics including 2 graphic novels, Detained and Another Glorious Day at the Nothing Factory. She is one of the founders of Short Run, an annual small press festival and year-round resource that celebrates comics, zines, and art books with a focus on limited editions, self-published, and handmade books. Eroyn Franklin will be discussing creativity as a solo and collaborative pursuit. The presentation will consist of a comic reading, discussion, and video about Short Run.
THANKS | The Museum of Art would like to acknowledge and thank Associate Professor Kevin Haas and the Department of Fine Arts for organizing this event.
NOTES | Public event, everyone is welcome!

2016 FALL | What is Graphic Medicine: A Conversation With Cartoonist Mita Mahato
2016-10-06 13:30 - 15:30 | WA
Hear Mita Mahato share her thoughts, and then join her in making some comics!
DETAILS | Thursday, Oct 6th, 1:30pm – 3:30pm Museum of Art Gallery
ABOUT | Mita Mahato’s cut paper art and comics explore the transformative capacities of found and handmade paper using layered shapes, textures, and colors that together build multivalent images and stories. Her most recent cut paper comic “Sea” was recognized by Cartoonists NW as 2015’s “best comic book” and will be the subject of continued work during her participation in the Arctic Circle Residency in 2017. Her comics and collaborative projects have been spotlighted by The Stranger, Seattle Review of Books, and AV Club. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Puget Sound, serves on the board for Short Run Seattle, and teaches art workshops for Seattle Aquarium’s Creativity Inspiring Conservation program, Henry Art Gallery’s ArtVenture program, and other community organizations. She lives in Seattle.
NOTES | Public event, everyone is welcome!

2016 COMIC ARTIST LECTURE | With artist Peter Bagge at Museum/WSU
2016-11-03 18:00 - 19:00 | Museum of Art/WSU, Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus, Pullman, WA, 99164, United States
JOIN THE MUSEUM OF ART FOR A LECTURE WITH ARTIST PETER BAGGE IN THE MUSEUM GALLERY
Thursday, November 3 at 6pm
Meet one of the Northwest’s most celebrated alternative cartoonists, Peter Bagge, as he weaves listeners the story of the Northwest alternative comics scene and how he developed his career as a young cartoonist through establishing a relationship with notorious underground cartoonist, Robert Crumb. After serving as Weirdo magazine’s managing editor Bagge went on to create his own series of comics such as Neat Stuff, the ‘grunge comic’ Hate, and more recently Apocalypse Nerd. Bagge is a recipient of numerous recognitions including the Harvey Award, one of the industry’s most respected awards, and his work is known for its dark humor surrounding youthfulness in middle-class America.
Notes | Open to the public.
LOCATION | The Museum of Art is located on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium in the Fine Arts Center on the WSU Pullman campus. Gallery hours are Monday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., open until 7 p.m. on Thursdays and closed on Sundays. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.

2017 WINTER | RICK BARTOW: Things You Know But Cannot Explain
2017-01-24 10:00 - 2017-03-11 16:00 | Museum of Art/WSU, Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus, Pullman, WA, 99164, United States
“Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain,” opens at the Museum of Art/WSU
Exhibit: January 24 – March 11, 2017
Reception: Thursday, January 26, 5-6 p.m.
Lecture: Thursday, January 26, 6-7 p.m. (With Dr. Rebecca Dobkins, Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Native American Art, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University)
The Museum of Art/WSU announces an Exhibition by Rick Bartow: Thing You Know But Cannot Explain, Jan. 24–Mar. 11, 2017. An opening reception and lecture will be held 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, in the Museum of Art gallery. Admission to the museum is free.
ABOUT | Representing more than forty years of work, Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain features a broad selection of sculptures, paintings, drawings and prints, drawn from public and private collections, including the artist’s studio, that affirm this extraordinary artist’s regional, national, and international impact. Personal experiences, cultural engagement and global myths, especially Native American transformation stories, are at the heart of Bartow’s art. Animals and self-portraits populate his iconography, and he was known for astute interpretations of literary, musical and visual sources.
Born in 1946, Bartow was a member of the Wiyot tribe of Northern California and had close ties with Oregon’s Siletz community. His work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions and is in numerous public and private collections. A recent career highlight was the completion of We Were Always Here (2012), a monumental pair of sculptures over 20 feet high installed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The renowned artist recently passed away in the spring of 2016.
Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain was organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon.
LOCATION | The Museum of Art is located on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium in the Fine Arts Center on the WSU Pullman campus. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.

TRADITION & CHANGE: CONTEXTUALIZING THE ART OF RICK BARTOW
2017-02-22 12:00 - 13:00 | WA
The Museum of Art/WSU will host an exhibition walk-through with Michael Holloman, Associate Professor of Art History and American Indian Studies, Washington State University on February 22 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. in the Museum Gallery.
Drawing from his experiences as a liaison between regional tribes and cultural institutions, Michael Holloman will lead a discussion in defining traditional Native arts and then guide us through the emergence of indigenous artists within the contemporary art field. Professor Holloman will place the work of Rick Bartow in a contemporary context through highlighting a key works within the exhibition.
LOCATION | The Museum of Art is located on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium in the Fine Arts Center on the WSU Pullman campus. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.

2017 SPRING | MFA THESIS EXHIBITION
2017-04-04 10:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Art/WSU, Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus, Pullman, WA, 99164, United States
EXHIBITION: April 4 – May 6
RECEPTION: Friday, April 7, 6-8pm

ABOUT | The Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition is organized by our curators Ryan Hardesty and Zach Mazur who’ve said, “This exhibit provides a wide range of styles and stimulating experiences for faculty, students and local museum constituents. The world-class faculty at WSU encourage the MFA candidates to become more assured and articulate in their convictions. We confidently present this year’s graduate thesis work in hopes that undergraduate students, first year graduate students and anyone willing to be moved by art while spending time at WSU will find it a fun and stimulating experience.” This annual showcase represents the culmination of two or more years work by the Master of Fine Arts graduate candidates.
MFA INTERVIEWS | We also are fortunate to have interviews and photos with the candidates posted on facebook (explaining the graduate candidates’ art and processes) as a great resource. Find these interviews by scrolling down to view the photo gallery, or view them on facebook by clicking here. Or visit the museum’s webpage here and scroll down to view the gallery of images from each artist.
MFA THESIS CANDIDATES |
Hayley Black
Stephen Cohen
Annie Cunningham
Andre Fortes
Yuanwen Lin
Laura Pregeant
The Museum of Art is committed to the idea that a museum has a responsibility to recognize the creative talent of its region. Anna-Maria Shannon, Interim Director of the museum adds, “Exposing our audience to the culmination of two or more years work from our graduate candidates enriches the community life of Washington State University by providing meaningful encounters with creativity and innovation. Our over-arching goal is to support creativity and innovation in students who can seek out divergent opinions, examine complex issues from a variety of perspectives and find meaning in the world.”
LOCATION | The Museum of Art is located on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium in the Fine Arts Center on the WSU Pullman campus. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.

2017 SUMMER | CURATORS CHOICE EXHIBIT
2017-05-16 10:00 - 2017-06-30 16:00 | Museum of Art/WSU, Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus, Pullman, WA, 99164, United States
Reflections on Place through WSU Faculty and the Museum Collection
May 16 – June 30, 2017

“The intersections of nature, culture, history, and ideology form the ground on which we stand—our land, our place, the local.” –Lucy Lippard
ABOUT | In his essay Towards a Critical Regionalism, architectural historian Kenneth Frampton denounced the prevailing “international” style of architecture—modular, rational, often partly pre-fabricated—for reducing regional variance to the point that new buildings in cities across the world were beginning to look altogether and everywhere the same. As an ensuing extension of Frampton’s argument, artists of various disciplines have taken up the challenge of balancing regional difference within a hyper-connected, globalized world. Today’s culture-makers have an opportunity to benefit from burgeoning avenues of information exchange and de-centralized seats of power, while critically responding to local conditions; reflective of their community’s histories, cultural-makeup, and the particulars of the surrounding land.
Points of Interest brings together four Washington State University faculty members—Ruth Boden, Kevin Haas, Taiji Miyasaka, and Linda Russo—whom each, in their own way, provide a lens onto the multi-faceted idea of “place.” Through their creative practices and current research these individuals probe themes of uniqueness as it pertains to locale, but also, degrees of sameness and shared commonalities through cultural synthesis. Supplementing and providing context to their inquiries will be selections of place-based works drawn from the museum’s permanent collection of over 3500 objects.
The Museum of Art is committed to the idea that a museum has a responsibility to recognize the creative talent of its region. Anna-Maria Shannon, Interim Director of the museum adds, “Our over-arching goal is to support creativity and innovation in students who can seek out divergent opinions, examine complex issues from a variety of perspectives and find meaning in the world.”
LOCATION | The Museum of Art is located on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium in the Fine Arts Center on the WSU Pullman campus. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, noon – 4 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.

WSU FACULTY PROFESSORS |
Ruth Boden
Kevin Haas
Taiji Miyasaka
Linda Russo

2017 FALL EXHIBIT | CONTEMPORARY WOMEN PRINTMAKERS
2017-08-22 10:00 - 2017-11-17 19:00 | WA
EXHIBITION: AUGUST 22 – NOVEMBER 17, 2017
CLOSING RECEPTION: Fri, 11/17, 5-7pm
JOINT LECTURE: Fri, 11/17, 5-6pm, with Wendy Red Star and Beatrice Red Star Fletcher
ABOUT | Contemporary Women Printmakers celebrates six internationally recognized women artists invested in printmaking, a process both physically and technically demanding. Featured artists include Hung Liu, Wangechi Mutu, Deborah Oropallo, Wendy Red Star, Alison Saar and Lorna Simpson. Hailing from many places around the world—Africa, Asia, and North America—these artists offer a diverse set of perspectives on a wide-range of themes pertaining to global culture. Each is critically engaged with content surrounding issues of identity formation—through gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, or economic class—and each employs figuration as a means to explore representations of the female body within contemporary art and popular culture.
The featured works demonstrate a broad variety of traditional as well as contemporary printmaking techniques, from woodcut to etching to offset lithography and digital prints.
Contemporary Women Printmakers is drawn from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.
The Museum of Art is committed to the idea that a museum has a responsibility to recognize the creative talent of its region. Anna-Maria Shannon, Interim Director of the museum adds, “Our over-arching goal is to support creativity and innovation in students who can seek out divergent opinions, examine complex issues from a variety of perspectives and find meaning in the world.”
FUNDING for this exhibition is provided by the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, Samuel H. and Patricia W. Smith Art Endowment, the Washington State Arts Commission, and the Members of the Museum of Art.
LOCATION | The Museum of Art is located on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium in the Fine Arts Center on the WSU Pullman campus. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, noon – 4 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTSHung Liu
Wangechi Mutu
Deborah Oropallo
Wendy Red Star
Alison Saar
Lorna Simpson

CLOSING RECEPTION & JOINT LECTURE with Wendy Red Star and Beatrice Red Star Fletcher
2017-11-17 17:00 - 18:00 | Museum of Art/WSU, Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus, Pullman, WA, 99164, United States
The current Museum of Art/WSU is closing its doors after 42 years of dedicated service to the arts. We will reopen with a new name, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art/WSU, in a newly completed building on Mom’s weekend 2018. Join us for a closing reception party and special lecture by Wendy Red Star and her ten year old daughter, Beatrice Red Star Fletcher from 5-7 pm on November 17, 2017, in the current gallery space.
CLOSING RECEPTION: Fri, 11/17, 5-7pm
JOINT LECTURE: Fri, 11/17, 5-6pm, with Wendy Red Star and Beatrice Red Star Fletcher
About Wendy Red Star: (Native American, Crow, b. 1981)
Through incorporating a variety of media in her practice, Wendy Red Star uses her art as a response to address the widespread misrepresentation of Native Americans in popular culture and examine the intersection between colonialist structures and Native American beliefs. Historic photographs like those of photographer, Edward Curtis, misrepresented Native culture by over-romanticizing Native Americans from a white perspective, which is still apparent in modern mainstream culture in the form of sports mascots or sexualized costumes. Humor and surrealism become a vehicle for Red Star as she investigates Crow culture in her work, which is simultaneously critical and celebratory—a tool for “decolonizing the way people are seeing things.” Born in Billings, Montana in 1981, Wendy Red Star was raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in southeastern Montana. Red Star received her BFA in sculpture from Montana State University and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
“As a brown person, as a brown artist, your work is political … I don’t aim to do political work, but it becomes political because it’s talking outside the colonial framework.”
LOCATION | The Museum of Art is located on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium in the Fine Arts Center on the WSU Pullman campus. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, noon – 4 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.

Grand Opening Invitation: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
2018-04-06 12:00 - 13:00 | WA
Please join us for the Grand Opening Dedication Ceremony on Friday, April 6 (mom’s weekend) from noon to 1:00 p.m. President Kirk Schulz, architect Jim Olson, and patron Jordan Schnitzer will share their thoughts. Refreshments will be served in the Pavilion gallery and tours will be given every two hours beginning at 2:00 pm until closing. The new museum is located directly south of the CUB on Terrell Mall of the Pullman campus.
In the six new galleries of the Crimson Cube, we will be hosting fiber constructions from Marie Watt, an interactive sound sculpture by Trimpin, ceramics by Jeffry Mitchell, video from the True Collection, and portraiture from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation. We will also feature works from the museum’s permanent collection titled Hearts: Selections from the Jim Dine Print Collection. We are delighted to host our featured artists’ works as our inaugural exhibitions and are confident that you will be inspired by both the art and the architecture you experience in the new space.
In our former location within the Fine Arts Center, now known as the Collections & Learning Gallery, we look forward to hosting the Masters of Fine Arts Thesis exhibition, opening April 3. The reception for the MFA show is April 6, at 6:00 p.m. Please check our calendar for opening event times and locations. It is going to be a busy weekend.

2018 MFA Exhibition Reception, Friday, 4/6, 6-8 p.m.
2018-04-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Art/WSU, Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus, Pullman, WA, 99164, United States
RECEPTION: Friday, April 6, 6-8pm, Collections and Learning Gallery, Fine Arts Center

Join us for the Master of Fine Arts Thesis Reception, organized by our curators Ryan Hardesty and Zach Mazur who’ve said, “This exhibit provides a wide range of styles and stimulating experiences for faculty, students and local museum constituents. The world-class faculty at WSU encourage the MFA candidates to become more assured and articulate in their convictions. We confidently present this year’s graduate thesis work in hopes that undergraduate students, first year graduate students and anyone willing to be moved by art while spending time at WSU will find it a fun and stimulating experience.” This annual showcase represents the culmination of two or more years work by the Master of Fine Arts graduate candidates.
MFA THESIS CANDIDATES | Jared Boorn, Anna Carpenter, Morganne Radziewicz, Krista Brand, Marguerite Gilbertson, Mana Mehrabian, and Amelia Warden. You can learn more about each artist by viewing their websites located in the right-hand sidebar.
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is committed to the idea that museums have a responsibility to recognize the creative talent of its region. Anna-Maria Shannon, Interim Director of the museum adds, “Exposing our audience to the culmination of two or more years work from our graduate candidates enriches the community life of Washington State University by providing meaningful encounters with creativity and innovation. Our over-arching goal is to support creativity and innovation in students who can seek out divergent opinions, examine complex issues from a variety of perspectives and find meaning in the world.”
LOCATION | The Collections and Learning Gallery of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium in the Fine Arts Center on the WSU Pullman campus. The Collections and Learning Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, noon – 4 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.

Special Event: A Conversation with Jeffry Mitchell and Marie Watt
2018-04-12 13:30 - 14:30 | WA
Special Event: A Conversation with Jeffry Mitchell and Marie Watt
Date: April 12, 2018
Time: 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Location: Borth and Creighton Galleries | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is hosting a conversation with well-known artists Jeffry Mitchell and Marie Watt on April 12, 2018 from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome! This is a wonderful opportunity for visitors to become familiar with artists Jeffry Mitchell and Marie Watt. Marie will moderate a conversation with Jeffry about his work in the Borth Gallery (03). Jeffry will likewise moderate a conversation with Marie about her work in the Creighton Gallery (04). Enjoy this alternative method of engagement reflecting a dialog between two artists who know each other’s work both personally and professionally.
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 hours of our six galleries are Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.

Marie Watt: Jo Hockenhull Distinguished Lecturer for 2018
2018-04-12 16:30 - 17:30 | WA
Thursday, April 12, 4:30 p.m., Fine Arts Auditorium 5062, Fine Arts Center, WSU
The Jo Hockenhull Lecture series, organized by the Women’s Studies Program, the Fine Arts Department, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, has named Marie Watt as the Visiting Lecturer for 2018. Watt will discuss the connections between art, activism, and feminist politics. This event is free and open to the public with a reception to follow.
Using various media, including reclaimed wool blankets, felt, pine, cedar, and iron, Marie Watt’s work grapples with indigenous politics, feminism, and the relationship between history and memory. Watt received her MFA degree in painting and printmaking from Yale University. Her work has been exhibited at the Tacoma Art Museum, the Rockwell Museum, Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art and the Denver Art Museum. In 2015, Watt worked on piece in which she conducted sewing circles with students from Tierra Ecnantada High School to draw attention to the collaborative nature of aesthetic creations. Watt is a member of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation and mobilizes several Native American traditions of storytelling and community formation in her work. Her most recent exhibition, Companion Species (Underbelly) will be on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU from April 6, 2018 to through September 1, 2018.
Watt received her MFA degree in painting and printmaking from Yale University. Her work has been exhibited at the Tacoma Art Museum, the Rockwell Museum, Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art and the Denver Art Museum. Her most recent exhibition, Companion Species (Underbelly) will be on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU from April 6, 2018 to through September 1, 2018.
The Hockenhull lecture series was launched in 1996 by the Women’s Studies Department in collaboration with the Department of Fine Arts to honor Jo Hockenhull, a WSU emeritus professor of Fine Arts who served as director of women’s studies for more than a decade. At WSU, Hockenhull focused on building programs and initiatives supporting diversity, the liberal arts, free speech, and critical thinking. Past lecturers have been visual artists, poets, and performance artists who have emphasized the important connections between art, social justice, and political practice. Former lecturers have included Octavia Butler, Coco Fusco, the Guerrilla Girls, Anna Chavez, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Ayana Jackson, and Jin-me Yoon.
For more information, contact Nishant Shahani at 509-335-5286.
The lecture is co-sponsored by the Plateau Center

Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition | Reception and Gallery Talk
2018-09-11 12:00 - 13:30 | WA
Special Event: Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition: Reception and Gallery Talk with Doug Gast, Joe Hedges and Io Palmer
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Location: Borth Gallery | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is hosting a reception and gallery talk with faculty artists Doug Gast, Joe Hedges and Io Palmer on Tuesday, September 11 from 12:00-1:30 p.m. in the Borth Gallery. Everyone is welcome! Enjoy an enlightening conversation about the works in the exhibition Self•ish: Doug Gast, Joe Hedges, and Io Palmer from the perspective of the artists themselves. Reception with light refreshments to follow.
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 hours of our six galleries are Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.

Memento: Selected Works from the Elwood Collections
2018-09-20 16:30 - 18:30 | WA
Special Event: Memento: Reception & Gallery Talk with Sean Elwood
Date: Thursday, September 20, 2018
Time: 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Location: Creighton Gallery | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is hosting a reception & gallery talk with Sean Elwood on Thursday, September 20 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Creighton Gallery. Everyone is welcome! This is a wonderful opportunity for visitors to become familiar with the Memento exhibition through the eyes of the collector who donated these collections to Washington State University. Enjoy a reception with light refreshments and an informal evening of art engagement.
EXHIBITION TRAILER | Memento: Selected Works from the Elwood Collections
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 hours of our six galleries are Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.

Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts at 25
2018-09-27 16:30 - 18:30 | WA
Special Event: Crow’s Shadow Reception/Gallery Conversation with artist James Lavadour and Dr. Rebecca Dobkins (Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Native American Art, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University)
Date: Thursday, September 27, 2018
Time: 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Location: Wright/Harmon and Smith Galleries | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is hosting a reception & gallery conversation – moderated by Dr. Michael Holloman with Dr. Rebecca Dobkins and artist James Lavadour – on Thursday, September 27 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Wright/Harmon and Smith Galleries. Everyone is welcome! Enjoy a lively dialog about the works in the exhibition Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts at 25. Reception with light refreshments to follow.
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 hours of our six galleries are Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.

Marching in Gucci | Chad Goller-Sojourner | Performance in Pavilion
2018-10-11 16:30 - 18:30 | WA
Special Event: Marching in Gucci | Chad Goller-Sojourner – Performance in Pavilion
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2018
Time: 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Chad will perform the work, “Marching in Gucci: Memoirs of A Well-Dressed Black AIDS Activist,” on Thursday, October 11, National Coming Out Day. Set in NYC during the height of the AIDS Crisis, this multimedia oral history explores the paradoxical and precarious relationship between fighting AIDS while engaging in self-harming behaviors. The performance will be in the Pavilion from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome!
Chad Goller-Sojourner is a Seattle-based writer, storyteller, solo-performer and recipient of a distinguished Washington State Arts Commission Performing Arts Fellowship. Most recently he served as the 2013 Ohio University Glidden Visiting Professor, where his work focused on the social, political and historical dimensions of multi-identity construction and intersectionality. In 2011 he was awarded both an Artist Trust Grant and Creative Artist Residency to further develop his sophomore solo show: Riding in Cars with Black People & Other Newly Dangerous Acts: A Memoir in Vanishing Whiteness. In 2009 he launched a national college tour of his groundbreaking and crushingly honest inaugural solo show entitled: Sitting in Circles with Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy, which debuted July 2008, was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and has most recently been expanded into a written memoir.
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 hours of our six galleries are Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.

Kate Gilmore: In Your Way | Gallery Talk and Performance
2018-10-18 16:30 - 18:30 | WA
Special Event: Kate Gilmore Gallery Talk and Performance – Audience Participation
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2018
Time: 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Location: Bruce/Floyd & Borth Galleries | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is hosting a gallery talk and performance with artist Kate Gilmore. Join us Thursday, October 18 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Bruce/Floyd and Borth Galleries’ exhibition Kate Gilmore: In Your Way. Everyone is welcome! Audience participation is encouraged and ear/eye protection is provided. Reception with light refreshments to follow.
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 hours of our six galleries are Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.

Memorial Celebration for Jim & Kelma Short
2018-11-08 16:00 - 18:00 | WA
The Department of Sociology, the Social & Economic Sciences Research Center
and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art,
together with Michael Short and Susan Short Castleberry,
invite you to a
Memorial Celebration for Jim and Kelma Short
To be held at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, Community Pavilion
1535 NW Wilson Road, Pullman, WA
November 8, 2018 | 4:00–6:00 pm | Program will be held at 5:00 pm
Paid parking is available in the Smith Center public parking garage

2019 | Reception & Performance with Artist Michael Schultheis: January 24, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
2019-01-24 16:30 - 18:30 | Museum of Art/WSU, Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus, Pullman, WA, 99164, United States
SPECIAL EVENT | Reception & Performance with Artist Michael Schultheis
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2019
Time: 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Location: Wright/Harmon Gallery| Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is hosting a reception & performance with artist Michael Schultheis on Thursday, January 24 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Wright/Harmon gallery. Enjoy the realms of math and art as they come together to tell a new kind of story. Everyone is welcome! Reception with light refreshments to follow.
ABOUT | Artist and Washington State University alumnus Michael Schultheis finds dynamic synergies between the languages of mathematics and art. An economist and mathematician, with experience in both academic and corporate worlds, Schultheis employs analytical formulae within his luminous paintings and sculptures. His art bends mathematical precision into imperfect visions, creating room for metaphor, storytelling, and beauty, connecting us all in its expression.
Raised on a rural family farm near the Snake River in southeast Washington State, Schultheis was awarded a B.A. in Honors Economics from WSU in 1990. His art has been featured in more than 60 solo exhibitions in the United States. It is included in public collections such as the National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C., and U.S. Embassies in Greece and Switzerland. Schultheis has lectured widely on ‘Analytical Expressionism’ a term he uses to describe his practice at the intersection of mathematics, science, technology and the visual arts.
Funding has been provided by the Samuel H. & Patricia W. Smith Arts Endowment Fund, the John Mathews Friel Memorial Arts Lectureship, and the Members of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU.
EXHIBITION | Michael Schultheis: Venn Pirouettes
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 hours of our six galleries are Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.

2019 | Black History Month Reception and Celebration
2019-02-07 17:00 - 19:00 | Museum of Art/WSU, Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus, Pullman, WA, 99164, United States
SPECIAL EVENT | Black History Month Reception and Celebration
Date: Thursday, February 7, 2019
Time: 5-7 p.m.
Location: Pavilion, Bruce/Floyd and Borth Galleries | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
In conjunction with the Social Space Exhibition, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is hosting a reception and celebration for Black History Month on Thursday, February 7 from 5-7 p.m. in the Pavilion, Bruce/Floyd and Borth Galleries.
Enjoy a lively discussion and gallery talk with special projects curator Sidney Murphy introducing the work of African American artists Mark Bradford, Leonardo Drew, Julie Mehretu, and Wangechi Mutu. Participatory events with multiple WSU student artists are planned to surprise and intrigue audiences.
Refreshments and a variety of light fare offered, admission is free, 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. The hours of our six galleries are Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910.
