Tiny Art Show Delivers Many Messages

Ashland Daily Tidings  10-14-2016

The Tiny Art Show at Southern Oregon University has tiny treasures that range from the humorous to the mysterious.

Students, faculty members and other Rogue Valley residents have contributed 3-by-3-inch artwork for the exhibit, which runs through Oct. 28. Miniature paintings, prints, embroidery, photography and sculptures adorn the halls of the Marion Ady Art Building near the Schneider Museum of Art on campus. Exhibit hours are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Learn more about the ‘Tiny Art Show’ on the full article.

Panel Will Address ‘Multi-Cultural Shakespeare’

Mail Tribune   10-12-2016

 

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Bill Rauch will join three other speakers, including longtime OSF actor Tyrone Wilson, to discuss the challenges and rewards of “Multi-Cultural Shakespeare” from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, in the Meese Room of Hannon Library at Southern Oregon University. There is no admission charge.

The event is sponsored by Shakespeare America, an OSF-SOU consortium that explores the question of what “American Shakespeare” means.

Learn more about the ‘Multi-Cultural Shakespeare’ panel on the full article.

New Date: SMA Artist-in-Residence Lecture, Storm Tharp

The Schneider Museum of Art is pleased to announce that Storm Tharp, a participating artist in the Portland2016: A Biennial of Contemporary Art exhibition, has arrived on the Southern Oregon University (SOU) campus for a month-long artist-residency.  The artist will provide a public lecture in SOU’s Meese Auditorium on Monday, October 3 at 3:30 PM. Admission is free.

Learn more about the Portland2016 exhibition on the full article.

SMA Artist-in-Residence Lecture, Storm Tharp

Storm Tharp works and lives in Portland, where he creates the characters in his mysterious paintings. He was raised in Ontario, OR and attended Cornell University, graduating from the College of Architecture, Art and Urban Planning in 1992. He is a painter and sculptor whose work has been acquired by various public collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Albight Knox Gallery and The Cleveland Art Museum. In 2010, Storm participated in The Whitney Biennial and in 2013, a mid-career survey of his work was presented at The Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, NY. He is represented by PDX Contemporary Art and Galerie Sébastian Bertrand.

 

Learn more about Storm Tharp’s lecture on the full article.

An interview with Dante Fumagalli

An interview with Dante Fumagalli

Literary Ashland
Oct. 3, 2016

Dante Fumagalli is a senior at Southern Oregon University studying English and Art History. He is passionate about education, the arts, and accessibility.

EB: Tell us a little bit about your internship at MoMA.

DF: I interned with the education department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City from June 8 to August 12. My time was specifically split between Community and Access Programs; School and Teacher Programs; and Interpretation, Research, and Digital Learning.

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This Week at Oregon Center for the Arts

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Former Miss America Pageant Winner Earns Scholarship

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A former Miss America pageant winner has scored another honor.

The Miss America Foundation announced Monday that Katie Harman Ebner has been named the inaugural recipient of its new Former Miss America Discretionary Scholarship.

The scholarship was established to help former pageant winners who still need financial assistance in completing their education after their 10-year scholarship window expires.

Ebner was Miss America 2002. She will receive up to $10,000 in scholarship assistance to continue her studies at Southern Oregon University’s renowned Oregon Center for the Arts.

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A Garden of Film Noir Delights

Ashland Daily Tidings
Posted Aug. 21, 2016 at 10:40 AM

Free screenings of a series of six film noir classics in the garden at Hearsay Restaurant in Ashland kick off Tuesday, Aug. 23, with “Scarlet Street,” a 1945 film directed by Fritz Lang starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea.

The series, dubbed “Trigger Warnings: A Celebration of Film Noir,” is hosted by Southern Oregon University professor of noir literature Bobby Arellano. Austin Gurwell, a former student of his, co-curates.

Learn more about “Trigger Warnings” on the full article.

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Flowers from Mars, New Paintings by Laurel Bustamante

LA Weekly

Posted Aug. 9, 2016

Lora Schlesinger Gallery presents Flowers from Mars, a series of small-scaled paintings by Laurel Bustamante. Like Persian miniatures, Bustamante’s paintings are elaborate and enticing. Flowers from Mars combines carefully painted human-interpreted flora with otherworldly environments.

Learn more about ‘Flowers from Mars” on the full article.

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Schneider Museum Part of Oregon’s ‘Largest Art Show’

Ashland Daily Tidings

Posted Jul. 29, 2016

The Schneider Museum of Art is taking part in what has been dubbed “Oregon’s largest art show.” The museum on Southern Oregon University’s Ashland campus is exhibiting the diverse work of five artists through Sept. 17 as part of “Portland2016: A Biennial of Contemporary Art.” Previous biennials were staged in Portland. This year, organizers have expanded the reach of the exhibit of 34 emerging and established Oregon artists and artist teams to stretch from Astoria to Ashland and as far east as La Grande.

Learn about the upcoming art show on the full article.