Lecture Recognizes Collectors' Contributions to Chicago Museum

Suzanne Folds McCullagh, curator of earlier prints and drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, will discuss three women art collectors in a free lecture Wednesday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. in Cone Chapel at Willamette University.

The lecture, "Leading Ladies with an Eye: Three Generations of Drawing Collectors in Chicago," is part of Willamette's annual Hogue-Sponenburgh Art Lecture series. McCullagh will examine the unique visions and insights of three collectors who have helped shape the holdings of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as the major works they have brought to the public.

During the past 50 years, these philanthropic women have assembled major collections of European drawings that are the envy of museums around the world. Helen Regenstein, who began to build her collection in 1958, enabled the museum to acquire 125 European drawings from the 16th-20th centuries. The collection of Dorothy Braude Edinburg of Boston led to a 2006 Art Institute exhibition of 166 works on paper, which she donated to the museum. This October, the museum's newly renovated print and drawing galleries will feature an exhibition of 126 Renaissance and Baroque Italian works collected during the past 40 years by Jean Goldman.

McCullagh has been a member of the curatorial staff at the Art Institute of Chicago since 1975, specializing in French and Italian Renaissance and Baroque prints and drawings. She is the author of numerous articles and exhibition catalogs, including a 1979 scholarly collection of more than 700 drawings, Italian Drawings Before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago.

The annual Hogue-Sponenburgh art lectureship, established and endowed by the late Janeth Hogue-Sponenburgh and Mark Sponenburgh, enables the Willamette department of art and art history to bring a noted scholar, artist, critic, curator or art leader to campus to deliver a lecture and meet informally with students and faculty.

For more information, call (503) 370-6925.

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Artist, Professors Discuss Properties of Paint

In conjunction with its exhibition James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art is hosting a free symposium Thursday, March 13, at 6:30 p.m. in Cone Chapel, on the second floor of Waller Hall at Willamette University.

The symposium will bring artists and scientists together to discuss the material and philosophical properties of paint and the interconnections between art, geology, the environment, physics and human creativity. Participants will include painter James Lavadour and Willamette University faculty members Andries Fourie (art), Scott Pike (environmental and earth science) and Rick Watkins (physics). Faculty curator Rebecca Dobkins (anthropology) will moderate.

James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint features a range of recent work by this nationally recognized Native American painter and printmaker. Since 2000, Lavadour has focused intensely on the properties of paint, creating works that he describes as “intersections” between his better-known landscapes and his lesser-known architectural structures. The exhibition runs through March 30.

Both the exhibition and symposium are supported by an endowment gift from The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, through the Spirit Mountain Community Fund. Additional support has been provided by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Scholar Presents New Findings on Ancient Religious Icons

A noted art history scholar will present his groundbreaking findings on the origins of religious icons in a free lecture Thursday, Feb. 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

“Icons in Antiquity: The Symphony of the Gods” will feature Thomas Mathews, emeritus art history professor from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. The event is the first in a new annual series called the Lane C. McGaughy Lectureship in Ancient Studies, established by the Willamette University Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology (CASA).

Thomas Mathews is leading an interdisciplinary project that has uncovered fresh evidence of the icon phenomenon from Egypt in Roman times. Icons, which are panel paintings of sacred subjects, are the most characteristic genre of art of Orthodox Christianity, and currently accepted theories trace their origin to the Roman cult of the imperial image or to the use of funeral portraits. Mathews’ project team is studying panel paintings of the 1st–3rd centuries that bear strong resemblances to the Christian icons that followed them, constituting an important bridge between “pagan” antiquity and Christianity.

Mathews, who holds degrees in classics, philosophy, theology and art history, has devoted himself to the interpretation of religious art of the early Christian and East Christian worlds. He is the author of 13 books and many scholarly articles, and his research has been supported by numerous prestigious grants and fellowships, including the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The event is co-sponsored by CASA and the Mark and Janeth Hogue Sponenburgh Lectureship Fund of the department of art and art history. The Lane C. McGaughy Lectureship in Ancient Studies honors the George H. Atkinson professor of religious and ethical studies emeritus who founded Willamette’s classical studies program and is a founding member of the Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Northwest House of Theological Studies.

For more information, call (503) 370-6250 or visit www.willamette.edu/centers/casa/research_grants/lane_mcgaughy.

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Teacher Workshop, Gallery Talks Planned for Lavadour Exhibition

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University will host a series of free gallery talks and a workshop for teachers in conjunction with the exhibition James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint, on display Feb. 2 through March 30.

The workshop, for teachers interested in bringing their classes to see the exhibition, will be Feb. 5 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the museum. The workshop will help teachers prepare their students for a field trip to the museum, develop strategies to tour the exhibition and reinforce the gallery experience and broaden curriculum concepts back in the classroom.

Elizabeth Garrison, the museum’s Cameron Paulin Curator of Education, will teach the workshop. She has written a teacher guide that will be available after Feb. 6 at www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art. The workshop is free, although advance registration is required by calling (503) 370-6855.

Free gallery talks about the exhibition, presented by museum docents, will be every Tuesday, Feb. 5 through March 25, from 12:30 to 1 p.m. at the museum.

James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint features a range of recent work by this Native American painter and printmaker. Since 2000, Lavadour has focused intensely on the properties of paint, creating works that he describes as the intersections between his better-known landscapes and his lesser-known architectural structures.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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Distinguished African Art Scholar Visits Willamette

Pamela McClusky, one of the foremost African art historians in the country, will deliver a free lecture on Yoruba art and thought at 7 p.m. Jan. 31 in the Paulus Lecture Hall at the Willamette University College of Law.

The lecture is in conjunction with the Hallie Ford Museum of Art exhibition Yoruba Sculpture: Selections from the Mary Johnston Collection, on display through March 16. The exhibition features ritual objects from the Yoruba people of West Africa.

According to McClusky, Yoruba art is filled with ashe, or “the power to make things happen.” In performances, masqueraders called Egungun, or “beings from beyond,” enact movements that no one can explain. Gelede masks are worn to enact parodies of different personalities. In sculpture, the Yoruba depict a wide array of deities that are akin to those of the ancient Greeks. In her lecture, McClusky will discuss these traditions and describe how Yoruba rituals still thrive in Western Nigeria as well as Brazil, the Caribbean, London and even New York.

McClusky has published extensively about African art and has organized numerous exhibitions on the topic. While a graduate student at the University of Washington, she discovered African art in the basement of the Seattle Art Museum and convinced the director to place the collection on view. In 1980, she helped establish the Department of African and Oceanic Art at the museum, and she has served as its curator since 1996. She also established a series of permanent galleries to house the Seattle Art Museum’s collections of African and Australian Aboriginal art.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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Author Gives Life to Cajun Culture

Martin Pousson will read from Sugar, his poetry collection, and his debut novel, No Place, Louisiana, Thursday, April 5, at 7 p.m. in the Hatfield Room in the Hatfield Library at Willamette University. The event is free and open to the public.

Pousson was born and raised in Louisiana’s Acadiana, often referred to as Cajun Country. No Place, Louisiana was published in 2002. His publisher wrote that the book is an “unflinching vision of family relationships pushed to the breaking point, conveyed with a rare empathy and understanding” and praised Pousson’s “ability to peer into the secret hearts of its misfit characters.”

“Louisiana-born Pousson debuts with a tightly wound novel about a claustrophobic Cajun marriage,” wrote Publishers Weekly, and Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Michael Cunningham wrote that Pousson “has given us a book of startling complexity, originality and power.”

No Place, Louisiana was a finalist for the John Gardner Award in Fiction, and it will soon be translated for publication in France.

Sugar, Pousson’s first collection of poems, was published in 2005 and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, an award that celebrates books with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender themes. His prose and poetry have also appeared in The Louisiana Review; Cimarron Review; Epoch; Icon; Transfer; Intersection and Love, Bourbon Street.

Pousson is the writer-in-residence at Loyola University in New Orleans.

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Collector of Ancient Glass to Speak at Museum

Richard Brockway, director of Ancient Art International and one of the foremost collectors of ancient glass in the U.S., will present a lecture and slide show April 12 at 7 p.m. at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Brockway will speak about the history of ancient glass and the development of his collection. The event is free and will be held in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall.

Brockway received his bachelor of arts degree from Willamette University, his bachelor of science and master of science degrees from Stanford University, and did further graduate study at Harvard University. For nearly 30 years he worked as an engineer for GTE telephone company, and during that time he began to assemble his collection of antiquities, which includes ceramics, sculpture, mosaics, coins, glass and lamps from Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, China and Japan. His ancient glass collection is one of the finest private collections of its kind in the country.

Brockway’s lecture is in conjunction with Ancient Glass: Selections from the Richard Brockway Collection, an exhibition on display until May 20 at the museum. Organized by Director John Olbrantz, the exhibition features a range of ancient glass from 1500 BCE to the 6th century CE. Included in the exhibition are drinking vessels, tableware, toiletry vessels and other glass items from Egypt, the Near East, Greece and Rome.

Ancient Glass: Selections from the Richard Brockway Collection has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Gallery Show and Lecture Feature Artist from Scotland

Beverley Hood, an Edinburgh, Scotland–based artist who works with digital and interactive media, will participate in several free public events during a weeklong residency April 1–7 at Willamette University.

The week’s events will include a free gallery show, “First Person,” open April 3–6 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the gallery space of the Art Building, located at the corner of State and Winter streets. An artist’s reception will be held April 3 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the gallery.

On Wednesday, April 4, Hood will present a free public lecture titled “Beverley Hood: The Digital Portrait.” The lecture is at 7:30 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State St.

Much of Hood’s work stems from her interest in ways to negotiate, identify and interpret transitions between real and virtual space and in the ever-increasing use of technology as a means of communication and interaction. She works with hardware and software at the outer limits of intended uses, teasing and tugging at the edges to explore the implications of imposed boundaries.

Hood’s residency is sponsored by the W. M. Keck Foundation Arts and Technology Grant and Willamette University. For more information, call Cheryl Cramer at (503) 370-6122.

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Award-Winning Film Animator Visits Willamette University

Bill Kroyer, animator and award-winning director who has worked on computer-animated short and feature films such as Tron and FernGully: The Last Rainforest, will give a free public presentation March 9 as part of a weekend residency at Willamette University.

Kroyer will discuss “Animation and the Death of Fantasy,” a provocative look at new computer-based techniques and their relation to and influence on traditional animation and storytelling. The lecture is at 7:30 p.m. in the Montag Den, located in the Montag Center at the northeast end of campus.

Trained in classic hand-drawn animation, Kroyer was one of the first to move to computer animation with work on Disney’s 1982 feature Tron. In 1992, he directed FernGully: The Last Rainforest. He is currently senior animator at Rhythm and Hues Studio in Los Angeles, where he supervises animation for theatrical films and directs animation in commercials, including the Coca-Cola ads featuring the polar bears. He serves on the executive board of the animation branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Kroyer’s residency is sponsored by the W. M. Keck Foundation Arts and Technology grant and Willamette University. For more information, call Cheryl Cramer at (503) 370-6122.

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Willamette Alumna Presents Art Lecture

Art scholar and Willamette University alumna Jennifer Hess Mouat will present a free public lecture on the work of John Byrne March 12 at Willamette University.

“A Creature of His Own Imagination: John Byrne’s Theatrics with Visual Art” begins at 4 p.m. in Room 212 of the Art Building, located near the corner of State and Winter streets on the University campus. Mouat, a 1997 Willamette graduate, has a PhD from the University of St. Andrews and a master of arts degree from the University of Wales, Lampeter. She is the first academic scholar to comprehensively explore Byrne’s life and work.

Byrne, an esteemed contemporary Scottish visual artist and playwright, began his career as a visual artist in the 1960s and ’70s designing album covers for groups such as The Beatles, Donovan, Stealers Wheel and The Humblebums. After working as a set designer, Byrne penned his first play, Writer’s Cramp, which was a smash hit at the Edinburgh Festival in 1977. Byrne’s second play, The Slab Boys, debuted in 1978 to rave reviews. Traveling to the U.S. in 1983, the play starred the then-unknown Kevin Bacon, Sean Penn and Val Kilmer and was directed by Robert Allan Ackerman.

In 1987, Byrne’s first work for television, Tutti Frutti, starred the then-unknown Robbie Coltrane and Emma Thompson. It won an unprecedented six BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) awards, the British equivalent of the Emmy awards.

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Museum Plans Lecture and Discussion on George Johanson

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University will present a lecture and discussion on artist George Johanson, who has been a major force in the Portland art scene for nearly 60 years. Both events are free and are in conjunction with the museum’s current exhibition, George Johanson: Image and Idea.

Prudence Roberts will present a slide show and lecture about Johanson as a printmaker, March 3 from 2 to 3 p.m. in the museum's Roger Hull Lecture Hall. Roberts is an art history instructor at Portland Community College and the author of numerous publications on regional art.

Curator Roger Hull will join Johanson to discuss his art and career, April 1 from 2 to 3 p.m. in the museum's Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery. Hull is a Willamette art history professor, curator of the Johanson exhibition and author of numerous monographs on regional artists, including Johanson, Carl Hall, Jan Zach and Charles Heaney.

George Johanson: Image and Idea chronicles the life and times of this distinguished Portland painter, printmaker and teacher whose work focuses on bathers, swimmers, artists and the streets and vistas of Portland, a place he has called home since the late 1940s. The exhibition is on display through April 1.

The exhibition has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem Transient Occupancy Tax and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Mondays. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information call (503) 370-6855.

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Su-en Wong: Simultaneous Voices (Cancelled)

New York artist Su-en Wong will visit Willamette University Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. as part of the university’s Hogue-Sponenburgh Art Lecture series.

Wong will give a free lecture about her recent work, entitled Simultaneous Voices. The event is in Cone Chapel on the second floor of Waller Hall.

Wong is a draftsperson and painter immersed in figurative concerns. Her works, made with colored pencil, graphite and acrylic on paper and panel, are sometimes playful and enticing, but more often reveal a disturbing side. Her vision is realized through a collection of pairs and groups of self-portrait figures that inhabit scenes of ambiguous space, often commenting on memories of emotional, physical and mental passages.

Born in Singapore in 1973, Wong received her master of fine arts degree in 1997 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the recipient of artist grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts (2000 and 2004), the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2000), the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation (1998), and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1997). Wong’s most recent solo exhibitions include Danese Gallery, New York; Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles; Deitch Projects, New York; and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.

The Hogue-Sponenburgh Art Lecture series, endowed by the late Janeth Hogue Sponenburgh and Mark Sponenburgh, enables Willamette’s Department of Art and Art History to bring a noted scholar, artist or curator to campus each year.

The Feb. 22 Sponenburgh Lecture at Willamette University featuring artist Su-en Wong has been cancelled. Wong had a personal emergency and cannot attend. Attempts will be made to re-schedule the event at a future date.

(update posted 16 Feb 2007, 9:12 a.m.)

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An Evening with Laurie Lynn Drummond

Critically acclaimed author Laurie Lynn Drummond will give a free reading Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. in the Mark O. Hatfield Library’s Hatfield Room at Willamette University.

Drummond’s first book, “Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You,” explores the lives of five female police officers in Baton Rouge, La. The fictional stories come from Drummond’s experience working as a police officer for the Baton Rouge Police Department in the 1980s.

USA Today called the collection “riveting” and said Drummond “makes all of the crime novels and television shows seem like amateur guesswork.” The book is “so compelling that it’s difficult to stop reading.”

The New Orleans Times-Picayune said Drummond had authored “unforgettable, beautifully written stories.”

“Anything You Say” was a finalist for a PEN/Hemingway Award, and it won a Violet Crown Award and the Jesse Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. One of the stories from the collection, “Something About a Scar,” won the 2005 Edgar Award for Best Short Story. The book has been translated and published in three languages.

In 2004 Drummond moved to Eugene, Ore., and joined the faculty in the MFA Program at the University of Oregon where she teaches fiction and creative nonfiction.

Olympia Vernon, current holder of the Hallie Brown Ford Chair of Creative Writing, is the event sponsor.

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Creativity at the Heart of Portland’s Vitality

Chris Coleman, artistic director for Portland Center Stage, will discuss “Creativity: The Fuel in Our Engine” at the Thursday, Feb. 16, Willamette University Breakfast Forum at the Multnomah Athletic Club.

Coffee is at 7 a.m., breakfast is served at 7:30 a.m. and the event adjourns at 8:30 a.m. Tickets are $15 per person and $100 for a corporate table of eight. To register, visit www.willamettealumni.com or call 1-800-551-6794.

The program is sponsored by Willamette University and the Willamette Professional MBA program located in Portland.

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Polynesian Scholar to Speak at Hallie Ford Museum of Art

Patrick Kirch will deliver a free slide lecture on Polynesian prehistory Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7 p.m., in the Paulus Lecture Hall at the Willamette University College of Law.

“Patrick Kirch is one of the foremost Polynesian scholars and archaeologists in the world,” said John Olbrantz, director of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

“Professor Kirch will situate Maori culture within the broader framework of Polynesian cultures and prehistory,” Olbrantz said. “He will discuss the archaeological evidence for Polynesian origins and migrations, and speak to the record of ancient Polynesian art. Maori art is a reflection of thousands of years of artistic tradition that can be traced back in time to the ancestors of the Polynesians.”

Born and raised in Hawaii, Kirch has led archaeological excavations in the Pacific Islands, served as a consultant for documentary films on Polynesian archaeology and navigation, and directed the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle. He currently teaches anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and serves as curator of oceanic archeology at UC Berkeley’s Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

“His landmark book, ‘On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact,’ remains the definitive book in the field,” Olbrantz said.

Kirch’s lecture is presented in conjunction with “Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread,” a major exhibition of traditional and contemporary Maori weaving on loan from New Zealand collections. The exhibition, which features exquisite woven cloaks, floor mats, baskets and other pieces, runs from Sept. 24 through Dec. 22, at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. The university is one of only three venues in the world chosen for this exhibition tour.

Organized by the Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture in Porirua City, New Zealand, in partnership with Toi Maori Aotearea-Maori Arts New Zealand, the exhibition is supported by a major grant from Te Waka Toi/Creative New Zealand. Local sponsorship has been provided by grants from The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde through their Spirit Mountain Community Fund, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission and the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy funds.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. The hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, please call 503-370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/go/maori.

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Artist Lecture November 18

Portland conceptual artist, Tad Savinar, will present a slide lecture Thursday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. Admission is free.

Savinar will discuss his work in a variety of media including printmaking and installation pieces, urban design and the design of memorials.

Savinar was born in Portland, Ore., in 1950 and educated at Colorado College where he received his BA degree in studio art. A conceptual artist and playwright who has been featured in dozens of one person and group exhibitions over the years, his work is included in numerous public and private collections.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. Admission to the exhibition will be free the day of the workshop.

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Artist Tad Savinar to Speak

As of October 18, 2004, this lecture has been reschuduled for Novermber 18, 2004.

In conjunction with its current exhibition, Keys to the Koop: Humor and Satire in Contemporary Printmaking, artist Tad Savinar will present an illustrated slide lecture on his work Thursday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. Admission is free.

Savinar was born in Portland, Or., in 1950 and educated at Colorado College, where he received his BA degree in studio art. Savinar is a conceptual artist and playwright who has been featured in dozens of one person and group exhibitions over the years and is included in numerous public and private collections.

In his lecture, Savinar will discuss his work in a variety of media, from printmaking and installation pieces to urban design and the design of memorials. As an artist who has chosen his brain as his tool of choice, Savinar feels it is of value for students and others to be exposed to the variety of options that are open to one who gets an "art education" or becomes an "artist."

Keys to the Koop: Humor and Satire in Contemporary Printmaking features the work of 16 printmakers who find humor and satire in contemporary art, fashion, food, religion, politics, and popular culture. The exhibit continues through Oct. 30 in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery.

Drawn from the extensive collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation, the exhibition features more than 80 works by American and British printmakers. Included in the exhibition are works by Mark Bennett, Enrique Chagoya, Roy DeForest, Tony Fitzpatrick, Ellen Gallagher, David Gilhooly, Red Grooms, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Gene McMahon, Claes Oldenburg, Tad Savinar, Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker, and William Wegman.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. Admission to the exhibition will be free the day of the workshop.

For further information, please call 503-370-6855.

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Map Collector and Dealer to Lecture

Page Stockwell, owner of Page Stockwell Old Maps and Prints in Portland, Oregon, will give a gallery talk on the history of Northwest mapmaking on Tuesday, Aug. 10, at 7 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. Admission is free.

Stockwell will trace developments from the printing of the first map of the region in the 16th century to the final setting of the border between the United States and Canada in the 19th century.

Stockwell's gallery talk will be followed by a walk-through of the exhibition, “Mapping the Pacific Northwest: Mapmaking, Myth-breaking, and Empire-building, 1597-1860,” currently on view at the Hallie Ford Museum through Aug. 21. Stockwell lent many of the maps to the exhibition and served as co-curator of the exhibition with Hallie Ford Museum researcher David Roberts.

The Hallie Ford Museum is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and Tuesday is an admission-free day.

For further information, please call 503-370-6855.

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Map Collector and Dealer to Lecture

Page Stockwell, owner of Page Stockwell Old Maps and Prints in Portland, will give an informal gallery talk on the history of cartography on Tuesday, June 8, at 7 p.m. in the Roberts Family Print Study Center at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. Admission is free.

Stockwell's gallery talk is presented in conjunction with the exhibition, “Charting the World: A History of Cartography, 1475-1860,” currently on view at the Museum through June 26. Stockwell lent many of the maps to the exhibition and served as co-curator of the exhibition with Hallie Ford Museum of Art researcher David Roberts.

The Museum is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the Willamette campus. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and Tuesday is an admission free day.

For further information, please call 503-370-6855.

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Art Lecture at Willamette Oct. 16

The Willamette University Hogue-Sponenburgh Art Lecture presents conceptual artist Fred Wilson in Cone Chapel Thursday, Oct. 16th, at 7 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Wilson spends months in a museum where he examines its history, its relationship to the community, its collection and staff. By using what he finds in the museum's storage rooms and by bringing a fresh eye to the museum's holdings, he creates new installations that speak to the power of juxtaposition. Many of his installations comment on issues of race in America.

A native of New York, Wilson received his B.F.A. from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1976. Recent one-person exhibits include installations at the University of Maryland, Skidmore College, University of California, Berkeley, University of Houston, Phillips Academy, Santa Monica Museum, Studio Museum (Harlem), and the Chicago Cultural Center.

His work is now included in the public collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Seattle Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Wilson has received awards, grants or public commissions from the New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

He was chosen as the 2003 American representative for the Venice Biennale.

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Digital Art Lecture And Symposium

A.D. Coleman, considered by many to be the dean of U.S. photo critics, will discuss “Potlatch, Auction and the In-Between: Digital Art and Digital Audiences” Friday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. in Hudson Hall, Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center, Willamette University.

A Digital Art Symposium will be held at Willamette Saturday, Feb. 16, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Hallie Ford Museum.

The lecture, sponsored by the Hogue-Sponenburgh Art Lectureship, and the symposium, sponsored by Hogue-Sponenburgh and the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, is free and open to the public.

In his lecture, Coleman will discuss the relationship between electronic art making and its actual and potential audiences. He will also discuss the politics of access, the challenges of unstandardized technology and the imminent shift in systems for distribution, presentation and financial support.

His books include “The Grotesque in Photography”; “Light Readings: A Photography Critic’s Writings”; “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”; “Tarnished Silver: After the Photo Boom”; and “Looking at Photographs: Animals, a work for children.”

He has been featured on National Public Radio, the Public Broadcasting Service and CBS’s Night Watch.

Coleman received the first Art Critic’s Fellowship awarded in photography by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1976, a Logan Grant in Support of New Writing on Photography in 1990 and a Hasselblad Foundation Grant in 1991. He was a J. Paul Getty Museum Guest Scholar in 1993 and a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Sweden in 1994.

The Digital Art Symposium, moderated by Coleman, will feature:

--Andrea Wallace, assistant professor of art at Willamette University, who designed the new digital art studio and curriculum and is teaching the first digital and video courses at Willamette beginning this semester. A photographer and video artist, she earned her master of fine arts degree at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

--Luis Valdovino, associate professor of art at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has received grants from the American Film Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Center for New Television, Chicago. His works have been included in numerous exhibitions including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Venice Biennale; The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

--Wendy Babcox, assistant professor of photography and intermedia at Western Michigan University. A photographer and video artist, she earned her master of fine arts degree at the University of Florida.

--Craig Hickman, associate professor of art and the director of multimedia design at the University of Oregon. He is the creator of Kid Pix art software for children and co-founded Blue Sky Gallery in Portland in 1975.

The Hogue-Sponenburgh Lecture for 2002 and the Digital Art Symposium are in celebration of the establishment of the Digital Art Studio in the Department of Art and Art History at Willamette University.

The Hogue-Sponenburgh Art Lectureship, established and endowed by Mark Sponenburgh and the late Janeth Hogue Sponenburgh, enables the Willamette University Department of Art and Art History to bring a noted scholar, artist, critic, curator or museum leader to the campus each year.

Both of these events are free and open to the public. No reservations are required. For additional information, contact the Willamette University Art and Art History Department at 503-370-6136.

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