Events

Exhibition Reception: Thursday, January 16, 2025, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Community Perspectives Tour with Dr. Hallie Meredith, January 16, 2025, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Community Perspectives Tour with Kevin Haas, January 31, 2025, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

Exhibition

Your Collection: Faculty Remix has been organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU and members of WSU’s Department of Art as part of the museum’s 50th anniversary. Studio art faculty have collaborated with the museum and its collections since the earliest days of the museum’s founding. This exhibition is a celebratory continuation of that five-decade shared history and partnership.

Your Collection: Faculty Remix grew from within this cooperative spirit, asking current studio art faculty how they might respond to and amend the museum’s Fall 2024 exhibition Your Collection: Celebrating 50 Years. Through collective curation, affinities and kinships were discovered that led to placing current work by WSU’s teaching-artists alongside and in conversation with works from the museum’s expansive permanent collection. Contemporary artists frequently look to relevant artworks of the past as they respond to our current moment. Your Collection: Faculty Remix not only points to the utility of the museum’s collection, but to the synergy of art and artists to collapse time and space—pulling forward the past into new contexts and meanings.

About the Collection

From its founding collections of nineteenth and twentieth century American and European paintings, the museum’s holdings have grown to 4,000+ art objects. The collection now spans a wide variety of approaches to form and content, created by a diverse group of regional, national, and international artists who have helped propel visual culture from the eighteenth century to the present, with a particular focus on artworks created since 1890 the year the college that would ultimately become Washington State University was established. The museum is grateful to the generosity of our many friends for enhancing the depth of our permanent collection. Our donors come to us from diverse backgrounds and varied relationships, but always motivated by the desire to share their treasures within an educational framework. As the American artist Jim Dine said on the announcement of his unprecedented gift of 201 original prints, “It’s about education, it’s about enriching the culture of the state and it’s about exposing people to what’s called art.”

Organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Funding for this exhibition is provided by the Samuel H. and Patricia W. Smith Endowment, the Holland Orton Endowment, and friends of the museum.

Location

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium/Gesa Field and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus.

Visit

The museum is located at the heart of campus. Visitors can park closest in the Smith Center For Undergraduate Education parking garage. Daily parking permits can be purchased the same day online at parking.wsu.edu.

Exhibition Artworks

To view selected artworks from the exhibition, click on the arrows after each image, or click the individual work to scroll through full size images of the works.