Exhibition

2024 | Demonstration and Performance with Reika Okuhara and Mozi Jones

Demonstration and Performance with Reika Okuhara and Mozi Jones Saturday, April 6, 2024, 2:00-3:00 p.m. Wright/Harmon Gallery, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Join us for Family Weekend on Saturday, April 6th, from 2:00-3:00pm: The MFA Thesis Exhibition artists will offer interactive opportunities and welcome conversations with visitors in the Wright/Harmon Gallery. Artist Reika Okuhara will demonstrate […]

photo of two people with a grey background.

2024 | Round Bag Weaving Workshop

Round Bag Weaving Workshop Friday, February 23, 10am–4pm (lunch 12pm–1pm) REGISTRATION | Opens February 1, 2024 at 12pm PST: Feb 23 Registration Link. Join us at the museum for a 1-day round bag weaving workshop with Jacy Sohappy, Traditional Arts Manager at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts. Jacy will lead up to 12 participants […]

Jacy Sohappy and Mini Round Bags

2024 | Here in a Homemade Forest: Indigenous Arts Talk

Here in a Homemade Forest: Indigenous Arts Talk with Michael Holloman and Jacy Sohappy Thursday, February 22, 12:00pm–1:00pm IN PERSON | Pavilion Gallery, Schnitzer Museum WSU LIVESREAM | WSU Global Campus YouTube Channel Join us for a talk with Michael Holloman and Jacy Sohappy, who will speak about Indigenous weaving and beading practices as they […]

Installation image and detail of bag

2024 | Writers Give Voice: Reading and Open Mic

Writers Give Voice: Reading and Open Mic As part of the National Day of Racial Healing 2024, the museum and WSU’s English Department will host a reading and open mic program in response to the theme of day. Readers will include WSU Campus Civic Poets & finalists, creative writing students and faculty, and student editors […]

People reading poetry to a seated group in the WSU Schnitzer Museum

2024 | Creative Writing & Mindfulness Workshop

Creative Writing & Mindfulness Workshop: As part of the National Day of Racial Healing 2024, Cameron McGill, Colin Criss, and additional creative writing faculty will lead an ekphrastic writing workshop in response to current museum exhibitions. An ekphrastic poem (from ekphrasis, Greek for “description”) imaginatively engages with, responds to, or reflects upon a work of […]

Young Man reading poetry to a crowd of visitors in the WSU Schnitzer Art Museum

2023 | Tour: The Quilting Practice of Artist Jeffrey Gibson

Tour: The Quilting Practice of Artist Jeffrey Gibson Saturday, 12/9, 2:00-3:00 p.m. Join the museum from 2-3 p.m. on Saturday, December 9 for a tour about quilts and quilt references in the exhibitions Jeffrey Gibson: They Teach Love, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation and Here in a Homemade Forest: […]

Colorful quilt by artist Jeffrey Gibson

2023 | First Year Experience Event

First Year Programs Event Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Pavilion Gallery, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU WSU’s First-Year Programs invite students, faculty, and staff from First-Year Focus and UNIV 104 courses to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU for music and refreshments, as well as activities and conversation in […]

Visitor enjoys a museum exhibition with artwork on the walls in the museum gallery

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: […]

2022 | Wednesday, November 16: Keiko Hara Reception & Book Release

Join us Wednesday, November 16 for an evening at the museum with Walla Walla-based artist Keiko Hara. Hara’s work is the subject of a mini-survey exhibition, Keiko Hara: Four Decades of Paintings and Prints, chronicling her unwavering commitment to painting and her unique form of Japanese woodblock printmaking over a 40-year period. This event also […]

Ryan Hardesty and Keiko Hara prepare to move a print from storage.

2022 | Friday, October 7: Opening Reception

4:30-6:00 p.m. Reception Juventino Aranda: Esperé Mucho Tiempo Pa Ver and Our Stories, Our Lives: Irwin Nash Photographs of Yakima Valley Migrant Labor Location: Pavilion Gallery Join us Friday, October 7 to celebrate the exhibitions Juventino Aranda: Esperé Mucho Tiempo Pa Ver and Our Stories, Our Lives: Irwin Nash Photographs of Yakima Valley Migrant Labor. […]

A collage of images form the Juventino Aranda exhibition gallery