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2023 | Glass Comes Alive in Pullman

Interdisciplinary Talks by Glass Experts John McCloy and Hallie Meredith
Time: 12:30-1:30pm
Location: Pavilion Gallery, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU

Glass Blowing Demonstration by the Museum of Glass Mobile Hot Shop, Tacoma, WA
Times: 2:00-4:00pm, 4:30-6:30pm
Location: Terrell Mall in front of the Schnitzer Museum

Both events are free and open to the public.

Glass is a deceptively simple material, ubiquitous in modern life but often overlooked in its significance. Yet it is both ancient and modern, a fusion of visual art, design, engineering, and technology. To explore the many facets of glass and celebrate the United Nations International Year of Glass, we are organizing Glass Comes Alive in Pullman. This free one-day event consists of interdisciplinary public talks about ancient and contemporary material and making, with a technological focus, followed by a demonstration by glassblowers from the Museum of Glass Mobile Hot Shop, Tacoma, WA. This event is designed to help students broaden their perspective concerning modern technology by looking to the past.

INTERDISCIPLINARY TALKS | From 12:30-1:30pm Dr. Hallie Meredith, an expert in Ancient Art and Archaeology, and Dr. John McCloy, an expert in Materials and Mechanics, will give public talks about the technology of glass in the Pavilion Gallery of the Schnitzer Museum. The talks are designed to engage students and the wider community, and will also contextualize the museum’s Marian E. Smith glass collection, which is on permanent view in the Samuel H. Smith Center for Undergraduate Education (CUE, 2nd floor, Atrium). Employing cross-disciplinary perspectives, these talks highlight the continued relevance of glass making and working technologies.

GLASS BLOWING DEMOS | Glass Comes Alive in Pullman will culminate in a free outdoor demonstration by the Museum of Glass Mobile Hot Shop, Tacoma, WA complemented by interactive VR models. During the glass event contemporary glassblowers will experiment with ways to approach the design and engineering of these ancient art forms by making versions of ancient Roman, Sasanian and early Islamic glass vessels. The experimental objects made will complement the public presentations, which address differing interpretations concerning the making of ancient glass, embodied learning and their relevance to the study and practice of technology today. The interdisciplinary talks will include 3D printed versions of a complex ancient glass vessel designed in VR, by the Spark in collaboration with Dr. Meredith, that the public can handle. In collaboration with Dr. Meredith, the Spark has also designed an app that will be available to download on any device during the demonstration. The app will further enable the public to learn more about the ancient glass objects and their rich object biographies as the glassblowers use contemporary approaches to make versions today. The interactive digital media are designed to make the past accessible and demonstrate its continued significance.

RELATED PROGRAMS & EXHIBITIONS
Coinciding with the glass technology talks and event, the WSU Schnitzer Museum is offering the exhibition Jeffrey Gibson: They Teach Love from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. Jeffrey Gibson, (b. 1972, Colorado) is an artist of Choctaw-Cherokee heritage and incorporates glass and synthetic beadwork in some of his sculptures.

TENTATIVE PROGRAMS
• Glass Blowing Lecture by Tacoma Museum of Glass Mobile Hot Shop (Tues, August 29, 2023, Fine Arts Auditorium at 4.30 pm)
• Workshop/Talk by Contemporary Native Bead Artist (provisionally early September 2023)

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
John McCloy, Director, School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering WSU
Hallie Meredith, Assistant Professor: Art History, Department of Fine Arts WSU
Museum of Glass Mobile Hot Shop, Tacoma, WA
The Mobile Hot Shop arrives complete with two glass artists, an emcee, and all the glassmaking equipment to recreate our studio environment. These talented glassblowers use the tools on board to teach and captivate, with each move narrated by a skilled and knowledgeable emcee. Techniques are explained and questions are answered as the audience watches live glassmaking demonstrations. All of this occurs outdoors, under a very large tent with a full AV system for broadcasting the show.

FUNDING
Funding for this program is provided by AOI WSU, College of Arts and Sciences WSU, Creative Corridor WSU, Common Reading Program, Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement WSU, David G. Pollart Center for Arts & Humanities WSU, Department of Fine Arts WSU, Global Campus WSU, International Year of Glass 2022, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU.

2023 | Art & Healing: Soundbath with Ambiente432

JOIN US SATURDAY JUNE 10 FROM 1:00-2:00 P.M. FOR A SOUND BATH EXPERIENCE BY NARA WOODLAND OF BRAIN BODY BALANCE SOUND THERAPY.

Nara’s sound bath will include frequencies from Ambiente432, an interactive sound sculpture created for the museum’s Pavilion Gallery by artist and composer Trimpin. After the sound bath, Kristin Becker, Curator of Education & Programs, will offer a short tour of Keiko Hara: Four Decades of Paintings and Prints in relation to the Art & Healing theme.

A sound bath is a meditative experience that uses intentional and soothing ambient sounds composed by the sound therapy practitioner. Participants are bathed in deep sound vibrations while tuning in to a full-body listening experience. The sound frequencies can slow down brain waves to a deeply restorative state, activating the body’s parasympathetic nervous system. This is where the body begins its self-healing. Sound and vibration healing is an effective and proven modality that uses vibration and sound to help reduce stress, alter consciousness, and create a deep sense of peace, well-being and better health. Come and experience this collaboration between Nara Woodland and Ambiente432.

Please bring your own yoga mat, pillow and blanket, and a water bottle. A few extra yoga mats will be available if you do not have your own. Participants will be asked to sign a standard assumption of risk and release of liability form prior to the event.

Art & Healing is a continuing partnership between the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU and Pullman Regional Hospital.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR | Nara has lived on the Palouse for over 21 years. She has a background in fine art, and a passion for helping people. Nara is a Licensed and Certified Sound Therapy Practitioner, and she has a business in Pullman where she provides vibrational sound therapy sessions. Nara’s practice has seen a surge in community support and interest over the past two years. In addition to the individual sessions, she provides sound baths for Hospice patients, Pullman Regional Hospital staff, local doctors, schools, local businesses and non-profits. She frequently collaborates with skilled yoga practitioners and a therapist to offer layered healing components and deepen the understanding of the Bodymind connection.

ABOUT AMBIENTE432 | Comprised of 12 motion-responsive resonator horns suspended from the ceiling and organized in strategic configurations, this site-responsive installation explores the sound-space continuum, demonstrating how an architectural environment may coexist and harmonize with a kinetic sound sculpture. Like much of his previous work, Trimpin’s installation combines ancient methods with scientific principles and 21st century technology. Ambiente432 is tuned precisely to 432Hz. Known as Verdi’s ‘A’, this vibration frequency recurs in the tuning of ancient Tibetan singing bowls and Stradivarius instruments. 20th century physicist W. O. Schumann calculated the Earth’s rhythms at a cycle close to the fundamental frequency of 432Hz. Ambiente432 is ‘played’ by visitors themselves as they move through and activate the space, impacting their own immersive spatial and aural experience.

QUESTIONS? Contact Kristin Becker, Curator of Education & Programs: kristin.carlson@wsu.edu

LOCATION & PARKING | The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. The museum is currently open Tuesday through Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and closed Sunday and Monday. Parking is free in Green lots on Saturdays.

2023 | LandEscapes Release Party

Join us Thursday,  April 27 for the LandEscapes Release Party!

WSU’s student-run art and literary journal will celebrate the release of their 2023 issue, with an accompanying program of readings by featured student authors. Original works of art published in the new issue of the journal will also be on display.  Additional WSU publications will host tables at the event, including Blood Orange Review;  The Palouse Review, a journal run by Honors College students; and May/Be, a magazine focused on the writings of Cougs about mental health.

This event is free and open to the public.

LOCATION | The  Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit museum.wsu.edu/about.

2023 | Reception for Dolores Huerta: Amplifying the Voices of Farmworkers

Join us for the National Farmworkers Awareness Week Closing Ceremony Reception on Monday,  April 3, 2023 from 2:00-6:30 pm in the Pavilion Gallery of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU.  During the reception visitors will be able to view highlights from the recent exhibition Our Stories, Our Lives: Irwin Nash Photographs of Yakima Valley Migrant Labor, organized in collaboration with WSU Libraries’ Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections and guest curated by Lipi Turner-Rahman.

After the reception, walk over to the CUB Auditorium to hear civil rights activist and community organizer Dolores Huerta speak about “Amplifying the Voices of Farmworkers” from 4:00-5:00 pm. Huerta, who is featured in Irwin Nash’s photo Boycott Protest: Dolores Huerta, 1968 (above), is visiting the WSU Pullman campus to talk to students and community leaders following the end of National Farmworkers Awareness Week (NFAW).

ABOUT | Dolores Huerta is a civil rights activist and community organizer. She has worked for labor rights and social justice for over 50 years. In 1962, she and César Chávez founded the United Farm Workers union. She served as Vice President and played a critical role in many of the union’s accomplishments for four decades. In 2002, she received the Puffin/Nation $100,000 prize for Creative Citizenship which she used to establish the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF). DHF is connecting groundbreaking community-based organizing to state and national movements to register and educate voters; advocate for education reform; bring about infrastructure improvements in low-income communities; advocate for greater equality for the LGBT community; and create strong leadership development. She has received numerous awards: among them The Eleanor Roosevelt Humans Rights Award from President Clinton in 1998. In 2012 President Obama bestowed Dolores with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.

Sponsored by CAMP, WSU Office of the President, WSU Office of the Chancellor and other generous campus partners.

IN THE NEWS | Civil rights activist Dolores Huerta speaks at WSU

2023 | Reception with HT94 Curator & Anthropologist Jason De León

Reception with HT94 Curator & Anthropologist Jason De León
Thursday, March 2, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Join us for a reception at the museum with UCLA anthropologist Jason De León!

Join us Thursday, March 2 for the culmination of the Hostile Terrain 94 exhibition with HT94 founder and anthropologist Jason De León. De León and other special guests, including WSU faculty and students who have been engaged with the participatory aspects of HT94 at WSU, will be available to mingle with visitors. You can look forward to an evening of engaged discussion and reflection about Hostile Terrain 94 and issues of migration at the US-Mexico border.

Earlier in the day Jason De León will offer a Foley Institute Lecture from 12:00-1:00pm titled “The Land of Open Graves: Raising Awareness about Migrant Life and Death along the US/Mexico Border.” The HT94 exhibition is on view at the museum from January 17-March 11, 2023.

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

LOCATION | The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. The museum is currently open Tuesday through Friday from 1-4 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and closed Sunday and Monday.

2023 | Artist Talk with Juventino Aranda

Artist Talk with Juventino Aranda
Thursday, February 23, 4:30 p.m.
Fine Arts Auditorium
Livestreamed via Zoom Webinar

Join us for a Lecture with artist Juventino Aranda!

On Thursday, February 23 at 4:30 pm, artist Juventino Aranda will be giving a public talk in the Fine Arts Auditorium about his work in the exhibition  Juventino Aranda: Esperé Mucho Tiempo Pa Ver. Aranda’s work expresses a search for identity and much of his recent work draws on family history and particularities of his childhood. Never fully ascribing to one cultural category, his artwork blends and manipulates the categories of painting and sculpture, craft and high art, and manufacturing and the handmade, as well as the formal and conceptual strategies of post-minimalist artists. Talk is free and open to the public.

Register in advance for this webinar:
https://wsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bJivfnMTSEWvAYzNjCeM2A

2023 | Foley Institute Lecture with HT94 Curator & Anthropologist Jason De León

The Land of Open Graves:
Raising Awareness about Migrant Life and Death along the US/Mexico Border

Foley Institute Lecture with
HT94 Curator & Anthropologist Jason De León
Thursday, March 2, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
In Person: Foley Speaker’s Room, 308 Bryan Hall
Livestreamed via Foley Institute YouTube Channel

Join us for a Lecture with UCLA anthropologist Jason De León!

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

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

2023 | Master of Fine Arts Thesis Artist Talks & Reception

Join us on Friday, March 31, from 3:00-4:00 p.m. for short talks by the four graduate candidates featured in the Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. Each artist will speak briefly to introduce the body of work they are presenting in the exhibition. The talks will be followed by an opening reception from 4:00-6:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public, please feel free to stop by and bring a friend!

Each year, the MFA Thesis exhibition provides a wide range of styles and stimulating experiences for faculty, students and local museum constituents representing the culmination of three years work by the Master of Fine Arts graduate candidates.

MFA THESIS CANDIDATES | This year’s MFA candidates are Shanda L. Stinebaugh, Adam Stuart, Sean Sullivan, and Allen Vu.

LOCATION | The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit https://museum.wsu.edu/about.

2023 | Hostile Terrain 94 Workshop

Hostile Terrain 94 Workshop
Tuesday, February 21, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Pavilion Gallery, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU

Register for this workshop on the Provost’s HT94 Website (registration will open in January 2023).

Join us for a public workshop about Hostile Terrain 94, a participatory exhibition from the Undocumented Migration Project. Co-sponsored by the Center for Arts and Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU (JSMA), and the Office of the Provost, Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is an interactive exhibition comprised of approximately 3,800 handwritten toe tags representing migrants who died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert in Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019. The physical act of writing out the names and information for the dead invites participants to reflect, witness and stand in solidarity with those who have lost their lives in search of a better one.

The on-going installation of this project will take place at the Schnitzer Museum in January-March 2023, with toe tags filled out by members of our local community. We are seeking university and community-based groups—student and faculty organizations, service groups, classes, etc.—who would like to participate in this intentional activity during Winter 2023. Each workshop will include time at the end to reflect on emotions related to and implications of the exhibition.

Additional workshops and activities for HT94 are taking place on the WSU campus. Visit the Provost’s Hostile Terrain 94 website for updates on these opportunities, and to register for workshops. If you are interested in scheduling a private workshop for your group or class, please contact wsu.hostileterrain94@wsu.edu.

Our community’s engagement with Hostile Terrain 94 will culminate March 2, 2023, when HT94 founder and anthropologist Jason De León visits the WSU Pullman campus for a series of programs and events.

QUESTIONS? Contact Kristin Becker, Curator of Education & Programs: kristin.carlson@wsu.edu

LOCATION | The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. The museum is currently open Tuesday through Friday from 1-4 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and closed Sunday and Monday.

2023 | Hostile Terrain 94 Workshop

Hostile Terrain 94 Workshop
Tuesday, February 14, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Pavilion Gallery, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU

Register for this workshop on the Provost’s HT94 Website (registration will open in January 2023).

Join us for a public workshop about Hostile Terrain 94, a participatory exhibition from the Undocumented Migration Project. Co-sponsored by the Center for Arts and Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU (JSMA), and the Office of the Provost, Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is an interactive exhibition comprised of approximately 3,800 handwritten toe tags representing migrants who died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert in Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019. The physical act of writing out the names and information for the dead invites participants to reflect, witness and stand in solidarity with those who have lost their lives in search of a better one.

The on-going installation of this project will take place at the Schnitzer Museum in January-March 2023, with toe tags filled out by members of our local community. We are seeking university and community-based groups—student and faculty organizations, service groups, classes, etc.—who would like to participate in this intentional activity during Winter 2023. Each workshop will include time at the end to reflect on emotions related to and implications of the exhibition.

Additional workshops and activities for HT94 are taking place on the WSU campus. Visit the Provost’s Hostile Terrain 94 website for updates on these opportunities, and to register for workshops. If you are interested in scheduling a private workshop for your group or class, please contact wsu.hostileterrain94@wsu.edu.

Our community’s engagement with Hostile Terrain 94 will culminate March 2, 2023, when HT94 founder and anthropologist Jason De León visits the WSU Pullman campus for a series of programs and events.

QUESTIONS? Contact Kristin Becker, Curator of Education & Programs: kristin.carlson@wsu.edu

LOCATION | The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. The museum is currently open Tuesday through Friday from 1-4 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and closed Sunday and Monday.