Michael Dailey: Color, Light, Time, and Place (June 7–Aug. 31). Michael Dailey is a Seattle abstract painter and professor emeritus from the University of Washington. His work focuses on the deconstruction of the landscape to its basic elements of horizon, color, light and atmosphere. The exhibition features 44 paintings and works on paper, spanning a 45-year period, drawn from public and private collections throughout the region.

The Art of Ceremony: Regalia of Native Oregon (Sept. 28, 2008–Jan. 18, 2009). This exhibition features historic and contemporary regalia from native Oregon, offering visitors a rare glimpse at the beauty, history and meaning of regalia in tribal life and thought. Included are objects made of buckskin and beadwork from the Plateau region of eastern Oregon, objects with condor feathers from the Columbia River Gorge, and objects with feather and abalone shell decoration from the Oregon Coast. The exhibition was chosen as Oregon’s 2008 American Masterpieces project and was awarded $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Harry Widman: Image, Myth, and Modernism (Jan. 31–March 29, 2009). Harry Widman is a Portland painter and professor emeritus from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. The exhibition surveys his career over a 60-year period in works that explore the possibility of a “meaningful shape” in abstract painting, the role myth can play in contemporary expression, and the interplay between the physical strength of the athlete and the intellectual delicacy of the poet or philosopher in expressionist modern art.

Senior Art Majors (April 11–May 10, 2009). Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior art and art history majors at Willamette. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, photography and mixed media. In addition, the exhibition features senior theses in art history.

James Thompson: The Vanishing Landscape (April 11–May 10, 2009). This exhibition focuses on a body of work that the artist has been developing for some time exploring the transformation of the rural western U.S. Thompson holds an MFA degree from Washington University in St. Louis and has been on the art faculty at Willamette University since 1986.

Smaller exhibitions scheduled for the Study Gallery include Adam Bacher: Earth, Water, and Sky (May 24–July 27); The Collector’s Eye: Contemporary Art from the Leo Michelson Collection (Aug. 2–Oct. 5); The Second Crow’s Shadow Institute for the Arts Biennial (Oct. 11–Dec. 21); Mary Randlett: Artist Portraits (Jan. 10–March 8, 2009); and From Hestia’s Sacred Fire to Christ’s Eternal Light: Ancient and Medieval Lamps from the Bogue Collection (March 14–May 17, 2009).

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 on 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.

The Collegian also won awards in the following categories:

Best Writing, Tatiana Mac
“NY Times’ assoc. editor reveals secrets, protects civil liberties”
“Explore the unexpected”
“Blind grading ensures objectivity”
http://www.willamettecollegian.com/?s=tatiana+mac&submit=search

Best News Story, Lauren Gold
“Students mourn sudden death of Kaneko cook”
http://www.willamettecollegian.com/2007/12/05/students-mourn-sudden-death-of-kaneko-cook/

Best Editorial, Collegian Editorial Board
“The cost of education”
http://www.willamettecollegian.com/2008/01/23/the-cost-of-education/

Best Columnist, Tom Ackerman
Opinions section
http://www.willamettecollegian.com/?s=tom+ackerman&submit=search

Best Sports Photo, Stephen Scott
Photo of Willamette Rugby Club

Best Cartooning, Patrick Willgohs

The College of Liberal Arts commencement begins at 3 p.m. on The Quad. The Atkinson Graduate School of Management ceremony is at 9:30 a.m. in Hudson Hall, and the College of Law commencement is at 11:30 a.m. on The Quad. The School of Education ceremony is at 11 a.m. in Smith Auditorium.

The College of Liberal Arts will honor 500 students with bachelor’s degrees. The College of Law will award 114 JD and LLM degrees, and the School of Education will award 101 MAT degrees. Atkinson will recognize 47 early career MBA graduates (18 professional MBA graduates were honored in January).

Helen Vendler, the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard and a well-recognized poetry critic, will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters and deliver the CLA commencement address. The Honorable Wallace P. Carson Jr., former Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court and a 1962 College of Law graduate, will receive an honorary doctor of laws.

Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul DeMuniz, a 1975 College of Law graduate, will deliver the law commencement address, and Jack McGowan, recently retired executive director of SOLV, will speak at the Atkinson ceremony.

For more information on Willamette’s commencement activities, go to www.willamette.edu/events/commencement/.

Update: Jonathan Kozol, a longtime educator and social justice advocate who was scheduled to receive an honorary degree and speak at the School of Education commencement, has canceled his appearance due to medical reasons. The School of Education speaker will be Dean Nakanishi '98, MAT'00, who teaches in a special education academy near Seattle and has researched and lectured on the history of Salem Japanese-American students sent to internment camps during World War II.

The 10th annual Wulapalooza, Willamette University’s free music, art and Earth festival, will be held Saturday, April 26, on Brown Field.

Associated Students of Willamette University present the festival, which begins at noon with the main music stage opening at 5 p.m. This year’s featured performers are Mobius Band from New York, and Portland bands The Blow, Blitzen Trapper and Panther. Other stages will feature performances from local and student-organized bands, a student art show and other activities.

Each year Wulapalooza includes a fundraiser for a local charitable foundation. This year the event will sponsor the Marion-Polk Food Share. The event is free, but canned food or monetary donations for the food share are welcome.

This year Wulapalooza celebrates its 10th anniversary. In the past decade, the event has evolved from a small festival providing a creative outlet for students on campus into a community event that brings in nationally recognized talent.

The festival seeks to provide a venue for community members to visit Willamette’s campus, familiarize themselves with student organizations and be the university’s guests for a day of music, art and entertainment.

For more information, call the Office of Student Activities at (503) 370-6463 or visit www.willamette.edu/org/wulapalooza.

Bradbury was part of a group of 50 individuals chosen to receive intensive training by Gore and a team of renowned scientists about global warming issues. Each received technical training to become experienced presenters of a version of Gore’s computer-based slide show, which became the basis of his best-selling book and documentary film, “An Inconvenient Truth.”

His Willamette visit is sponsored by Associated Students of Willamette University, Willamette Events Board and The New York Times.

“Bill Bradbury is an outstanding example of the millions of Americans who have been energized by the call to action on the climate crisis,” Gore said. “Bill will be spending the next year making presentations in and around Oregon discussing how individuals and businesses, schools and other organizations can be a major part of the solution to the growing crisis of global warming.”

Sallie Schullinger-Krause, the Oregon Environmental Council’s Global Warming Program Manager, said: “Bill Bradbury has become Oregon’s leader in global warming outreach. Not only has he tailored his presentation to include the very real effects of climate change on Oregon, but he has developed tools to help his audiences become part of the solution.”

The Oregon Environmental Council safeguards what Oregonians love about Oregon — clean air and water, an unpolluted landscape and healthy food produced by local farmers. For nearly 40 years the council has been a champion for solutions that protect the health of all Oregonians and the place they call home. Its vision for Oregon includes solving global warming, protecting children from toxins, cleaning up rivers, building sustainable economies, and ensuring healthy food and local farms. Find out more at www.oeconline.org.

Each year, the Hawaii Club strives to recreate a piece of home in the Cone Field House and share Polynesian culture with the Salem community. The theme of this year’s event is “Mau Ke Aloha No Hawaii,” or “Forever the Love of Hawaii.” Guests will enjoy freshly made Hawaiian food, music and dance performances from across Polynesia, and an opportunity to purchase products unique to Hawaii from the Country Store.

Tickets to attend both the dinner and show are sold out. Tickets for the show only are still available for $10, or $5 for Willamette students and employees. Children younger than 7 are admitted free.

Show-only tickets are available this week at Goudy Commons from 5 to 7 p.m. or in Putnam University Center from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For more information, contact Gordy Toyama in the Office of Multicultural Affairs at (503) 370-6265.

An exhibition of works by South African painter and sculptor Andries Fourie, the newest member of Willamette University’s art faculty, opens April 12 and will be on display through May 11 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.

Andries Fourie: Recent Work will be held in the Atrium Gallery and will coincide with the senior art majors exhibition in the Melvin-Henderson-Rubio Gallery. Fourie will give a free gallery talk about his work Tuesday, April 15, at 12:30 p.m. at the museum.

“Andries Fourie is doing some of the most exciting and thought-provoking work in the region,” Museum Director John Olbrantz said.

Fourie, of Afrikaner heritage, was born and raised in South Africa and educated in California as a painter and sculptor. He uses his art to address the horrors of war and the tragedy of apartheid. The exhibition will feature a range of work from the past few years, including such powerful recent works as “Asking the Ancestors for Answers” and “Denial’s Antidote.” Fourie joined the Willamette faculty in 2006.

Andries Fouries: Recent Work is 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 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

The exhibition, which will be held in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery, is presented every spring at the museum. Characterized by a wide variety of styles and approaches, the exhibition includes work in a variety of media, including painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, ceramics and mixed media. In addition, the exhibition features a section devoted to senior theses in art history.

This year’s seniors from Oregon include Breanna Aldrich from Tigard; Megan Bay from McMinnville; Tatyana Drofyak from Salem; Allison Fairbanks from Salem; Katherine Gordon from Portland; Hannah Hall from Central Point; Julia Houha from Portland; Raino Isto from Myrtle Creek; Margaret James from Salem; Faith Kreskey from Reedsport; Kirsten Poulsen-House from Portland; and Lee Stromberg from Salem.

Seniors from neighboring Washington include Timothy Kohlstedt from Chewelah; Shasta Krueger from Seattle; Anna Sabo from Seattle; and Jacob Wicks from Federal Way.

Other senior art and art history majors include Max Antione from Albuquerque, N.M.; Elise Cherpin from Glendora, Calif.; Suzanne Duket from Santa Monica, Calif.; Jessica Lawrence from Boise, Idaho; Katrina Maher from Clancy, Mont.; Amanda Rose from Newman, Calif.; and Lauren Pressler from Berkeley, Calif.

The exhibition is 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 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

Gift of Gab, of the critically acclaimed Bay area group Blackalicious, will headline the show. Also performing are underground sensation Pigeon John, super DJ group Ill-Insanity, Braille Brizzy and The Garden. “This is the biggest underground hip hop show in Oregon,” said Willamette student Jason Gundlach.

The Willamette Hip Hop Congress promotes social change and cultural awareness through hip hop music.

General admission (for ages 18 and over) is $15 at the door or free with Willamette ID. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. For more information contact wuhiphopcongress@gmail.com.

Dramatic vocal arts students will be directed by Allison Swensen-Mitchell and the orchestral accompaniment will be conducted by Willamette alumnus Pierre-Alain Chevalier. The set and lighting design has been created by Brett Popovich. The operetta will be sung in English and set in the 1920s.

"The storyline of Die Fledermaus is not to be taken seriously," Swensen-Mitchell said. "It is a farce about payback for a practical joke one friend played on another before the story even begins."

Adult/senior tickets are $7; student tickets are $3. They can be purchased at the door or at the music department Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets can also be charged by phone at (503) 370-6255.

Vitiello will host a guest lecture Thursday, April 3, from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m. in Rogers Rehearsal Room. Beta Collide will lead a student composer reading session Friday, April 4, from 2 to 3 p.m. in Rogers Rehearsal Room. Both events are free and open to the public.

Beta Collide is directed by Willamette Flute Instructor Molly Barth, who recently won a Grammy Award for work with her previous group eighth blackbird, and Brian McWhorter on trumpet. Other musicians are David Riley on piano and Phillip Patti on percussion. The music ensemble focuses on the collision of musical art forms, from new complexity to ambient, from low-brow to high-brow, from radically extended technique to site-specific improvisation, from popular to the academy.

Vitiello is an assistant professor of kinetic imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University and archivist for The Kitchen, a non-profit, interdisciplinary organization in New York that supports innovative artists. He is an electronic musician and sound artist who transforms incidental atmospheric noises into soundscapes that alter people’s perception of the surrounding environment. Vitiello has composed music for independent films, experimental video projects and art installations.

For more information, contact the Willamette Music Department at (503) 370-6255.

The series, "Beyond Six Strings," features some of the world's leading performers who are exploring the guitar in unique ways. The guitar is one of society's most popular instruments, yet its history and evolution often are overlooked and narrowly interpreted to only include six-string guitars. This series will include performances that explore significant trends in the instrument's development.

The series begins Friday, April 4, at 8 p.m. with Grammy Award nominee Paul Galbraith, who will perform on the eight-string Brahms guitar of his own invention, which is held upright like a cello. The program will include original transcriptions of works that typically have been considered unplayable on the guitar, by composers that include Mozart, Schubert, Bach, Lennox Berkeley and William Byrd.

The second concert in the series is Sunday, April 13, at 7 p.m. featuring Emmy Award nominee John Doan, associate professor of guitar at Willamette. Doan will perform original works on the 20-string harp guitar as well as forgotten works by Fernando Sor, father of the classical guitar, on a rare 1829 three-necked harpolyre.

The series concludes Friday, April 18, at 8 p.m. with Ronn McFarlane, considered one of the world's leading performers of the 13-course (18-string) lute. He will perform works by John Dowland and Francesco da Milano, as well as contemporary original pieces.

Tickets for each performance are $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors, with a series price for all three concerts of $40 for adults and $25 for students and seniors. They are available at the Pentacle Theatre Ticket Office in Salem at 145 Liberty St. NE, Suite 102, or they can be charged by phone at (503) 485-4300. Tickets are subject to a service charge. For more information, call the Willamette University Music Department at (503) 370-6255.

Staff and Students

Individual Prices:
$10 WU Faculty/Staff, $3 WU Students

Series Price:
$25 WU Faculty/Staff, $8 WU Students

The Willamette community may purchase tickets at the Music Department in the Rogers Music Center or charge by phone, x6255.

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.

Organized by Ann Nicgorski, professor of art history at Willamette and faculty curator at the museum, Piranesi: Views of Rome will include a range of prints drawn from regional collections, including the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, Reed College, the Portland Art Museum and a private collector. The exhibition will include Piranesi’s “Arch of Titus” from the collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.

From 1748–74, Piranesi (1720–78) created his famous “Views of Rome,” a series of prints that depicted the eternal city’s majestic ruins and served for generations as the standard representations of Roman grandeur.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Marnie Stark, assistant curator of prints and drawings at the Portland Art Museum, will give a free lecture Thursday, April 3, at 7 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the museum. Stark will discuss Piranesi’s prints within the context of the Greco-Roman controversy in which French and German scholars dismissed Roman architecture and design as derivative and inferior to that of the Greeks.

Piranesi: Views of Rome is 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 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

The National Museum of the American Indian announced 13 recipients Thursday for the inaugural Visual and Expressive Arts Grants program. This new program offers support to a wide range of arts activities with the goal of increasing knowledge, understanding and appreciation of contemporary Native American arts.

The grant will allow the Hallie Ford Museum, in partnership with the University of Washington Press and The Evergreen State College, to co-publish the exhibition catalog “Joe Feddersen: Vital Signs.” The exhibition is a retrospective of Feddersen’s best work in prints, glass and weaving since the mid–1990s. The book accompanies an exhibition organized by faculty curator and anthropology Associate Professor Rebecca Dobkins that will be on display at the Missoula Art Museum in Montana June 2–Sept. 20, at the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington Sept. 12, 2009–Jan. 10, 2010, and at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art Jan. 30–March 28, 2010.

The “Joe Feddersen: Vital Signs” catalog will include a biographical essay by Dobkins, an introduction by artist Barbara Thomas and a critical essay by artist/writer Gail Tremblay. The book, available later this spring, will be a new volume in the prestigious Jacob Lawrence Series on American Art and Artists of the University of Washington Press. Feddersen’s work explores the interrelationships between urban place markers and indigenous design through powerful combinations of contemporary media and native iconography.

The Smithsonian grants were made in two funding areas, the visual arts and expressive arts. The Hallie Ford Museum received a visual arts grant, which supports exhibitions and installations of contemporary Native American art, as well as publications and critical writing.

Another visual arts grant given to the Art Association of Jackson Hole, Wyo., will support a traveling exhibition by Willamette alumna Marie Watt, a 1990 graduate who serves on Willamette’s Native American Advisory Council. Organized by the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyo., the traveling exhibition, “Marie Watt: Blanket Stories,” will allow the artist to lead gallery talks, present a slide lecture and organize a family sewing circle to encourage discussion about contemporary and historical Native American art, traditions and personal inspiration.

For more about the Visual and Expressive Arts Grants and a list of the other winners, go to www.nmai.si.edu/press/releases/20080314_Grant_Recipients.pdf.