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Saturday, April 26

Honest Truths: Why Human Rights Principles Should Guide Documentary Filmmaking

More human rights video is being captured, produced, and shared by more people in more places than ever before, often in real-time. This has, in turn, raised...

Cinema Pacific Film Festival

An annual spring festival of film and new media from Pacific-bordering countries. Featuring Focus: Chile and Focus: Taiwan

ASARO—Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca

The Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca (ASARO—Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca) was born in the wake of the 2006 uprisings in Oaxaca,...

Contemporary Oregon Visions: Jo Hamilton and Irene Hardwicke Olivieri

These two contemporary Oregon artists offer two substantially different but equally innovative approaches to figurative art. Hamilton, born in Glasgow,...

Job Search Saturday

Interested in seeing a Lundquist Career advisor on Saturday? Take a break from weekend studying and join Career Services staff on Saturday. Learn key...

NewArt Northwest Kids: Food for Thought

Teachers of public, private, and home school students in grades K-12 submitted work from schools across Oregon for this year’s theme, which explores the...

NewArt Northwest Kids: Food for Thought

Teachers of public, private, and home school students in grades K-12 submitted work from schools across Oregon for this year’s theme, which explores the...

Oregon - Where Past is Present

Experience 15,000 years of Northwest cultural history - including the world's oldest shoes - and 200 million years of geology. Realistic environmental...

Site Seeing: Snapshots of Historical Archaeology in Oregon

New views into nineteenth-century Oregon: From a nineteenth-century working-class family in Portland to a Chinese mining community in Jacksonville, this...

The Atlas of Yellowstone - Telling the story of the world's first national park.

Experience Yellowstone's dynamic beauty through maps and other works of art from the 2012 atlas published by the University of Oregon.

The Delicate World of Josefine Allmayer: Papercuts from the Permanent Collection

Austrian artist Josefine Allmayer was born in a small town near Vienna in 1904. Allmayer’s father taught her the art of psaligraphy, or papercut silhouettes,...

The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection

For more than twenty years, RBC Wealth Management, one of the nation’s largest full-service securities firms, has collected and presented art that reflects...

Tradition Keepers: Cornhusk Weavings by Kelli Palmer and Joy Ramirez

MNCH, in collaboration with Oregon Folklife Network (OFN), features the work of two awardees from the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program: cornhusk...

Vanessa Renwick: Hunting Requires Optimism & Medusa Smack

In conjunction with Cinema Pacific and made possible by a JSMA Academic Support Grant, the JSMA is pleased to present two video installations by...

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live

Beginning in 2010, The Ford Family Foundation has annually awarded three Hallie Ford Fellowships in the Visual Arts to mid-career artists in Oregon whose...

Works Progress Administration Impressions: The Reality of the American Dream

We are pleased to present a student-curated selection from our large holdings of WPA prints, which have been on long-term loan to the JSMA from the U.S....

Portland 2014, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center Biennial at White Box UO

Presented by Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland2014 is a major biennial exhibition celebrating artists who are defining and advancing contemporary...

Cinema Pacific Presents "Forbidden Voices"

Switzerland, 2013, 95 min. Forbidden Voices documents the lives of three dissenting female bloggers living under repressive governments. The documentary...

Artist’s Talk: T. L. Solien

Human Touch artist T.L. Solien discusses his work. Followed by a gallery tour with artist, RBC Curator Donald McNeil, and JSMA executive director Jill Hartz

Exhibit Talks at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History

Enhance your museum experience with an Exhibit Talk given by a trained volunteer. Talks are offered every afternoon, Tuesday through Sunday, and are included...

Four on Blue: Brian Lindstrom, Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher, and Penny Allen discuss documentary filmmaker James Blue

Is it possible to capture the truth, using a camera? James Blue probed this question throughout his career as a director, journalist, film historian, and...

Cinema Pacific Presents "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?"

Taiwan, 2013, 104 min. Optometrist Weichung has the perfect family he always wanted, complete with an adoring young son and beautiful wife. Unfortunately,...

Cinema Pacific Presents "Wolf: A Live Performance by Deke Weaver"

Wolf is the third chapter in Deke Weaver’s life-long endeavor, The Unreliable Bestiary, an ark of stories about animals, our relationships with them, and the...

Cinema Pacific Presents "Takao Dancer" With Codirectors Wen-shing Ho and Ouchul Hwang

Taiwan-Japan, 2013, 100 min. In Takao Dancer, the paths of childhood friends Chi, Yi, and Kong grow increasingly discordant after a jointly botched crime...

Senior Recital  |  Mike Weiland  |  Live-streamed

Live-stream Feed Works by: Brahms, Ysaye and Ives

Cinema Pacific Presents "Hope and Prey: A live performance by Vanessa Renwick and Daniel Menche"

U.S., 2010, approximately 50 min. Hope and Prey is a three-screen projection featuring stunning wildlife cinematography of animals hunting and being hunted....

Spring Awakening

Winner of 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, SPRING AWAKENING is a rock musical adaptation of Franz Wedekind’s controversial 1891 symbolist play about...

Adrenaline Film Project Screening and After Party

Adrenaline's intense 72-hour filmmaking competition draws to a close with this screening of the completed films. An awards ceremony follows, with the winning...

Cinema Pacific Presents "The Dance of Reality"

Chile, 2013, 130 min. After a nearly 23-year hiatus, Chilean surrealist Alejandro Jodorowksy returns with a radiantly visceral film that is—and is much more...

Saturday, April 26