February 18 – April 24, 2021
Print Study Center
Exhibition Part I: February 18 - April 24, 2021
Exhibition Part II: tentatively scheduled May 8 - August 14, 2021
Organized by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in partnership with the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts (CSIA), and curated by anthropology professor and curator of Native American art Rebecca Dobkins, this two-part exhibition features a selection of contemporary prints created by Native and non-Native artists at the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts on the Umatilla Reservation in northeastern Oregon. Founded by native painter and printmaker James Lavadour (Walla Walla) in 1992, CSIA seeks to create educational and professional opportunities for native artists to utilize their art as a vehicle for economic development.
7 Lane County nonprofit arts organizations receive Arts Build Communities grants
Register-Guard
The Oregon Arts Commission awarded $180,000 to 40 projects through its 2021 Arts Build Communities grant program. The program targets underserved Oregon audiences by using the arts to address community needs through geographic impact and arts access.
“Local citizens employ creative thinking and collective response to identify a local need and provide an arts-based solution,” Arts Commission Vice Chair and lead panelist Jenny Green said in a statement.
For instance, Eugene schools haven t maintained an instrument program for many years. For the past 20 years, though, Eugene-Springfield Youth Orchestras has provided a foundation for youngsters through its String Academy 1. Its $5,874 ABC Grant will help provide free and minimal-cost online beginning strings instruction for 125 Eugene third, fourth and fifth graders, according to ESYO executive director Holly Spencer.
A Critical Conversation exhibit uses art to impel consideration in Eugene-Springfield
A synonym for propaganda is information. Another synonym for propaganda is disinformation. It’s all in how people process this data.
“Because propaganda tends to illustrate a viewpoint, it evokes emotions and some type of reaction,” filmmaker Gregory S. Black said. ”That s what draws me to create: the ability to get emotions or get people connected.”
Toward this end, Black co-organized “A Critical Conversation,” an exhibition that offers a subjective artistic perspective to spark dialogue. In the show, Black and 10 additional artists make their statement on the intersection of art, race and privilege at home and in the wider culture. A short film from Black will join in-gallery printmaking performances, paintings, panel discussions and selected poetry intend as an anti-racist message in spurring commentary and questioning race at Eugene Contemporary Art s ANTI-AESTHETIC a