The Feast of the Arts: Five Star Cellars Dinner featuring wine from a Cougar-connected winery, along with a four-course dinner by Executive Chef Mat Morgan and students. The Feast presents exclusive dinners in partnership between the WSU Alumni Association and its Wine-By-Cougars wine club, the Carson College of Business School or Hospitality Business Management, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, and the School of Music.
What Was Always Yours And Never Lost Washington State University is unveiling a collection of films and experimental documentaries made by Indigenous artists. The nine films cover a wide array of topics that touch on Indigenous identity and presence in the face of a deep colonial history spanning across the continent and the world. The films incorporate poetry, beauty and community while also preserving the past and presenting ways of seeing the future in a different light. The collection was curated by MacArthur Fellow Sky Hopinka and features films from the artists and groups TJ Cuthand, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, James Luna, Caroline Monnet, and Jackson Polys.
Keiko Hara Reception & Book Release Join us Wednesday, 11/16 for an unforgettable evening at the museum. Keiko Hara signs copies of her new publication, "Keiko Hara: Four Decades of Paintings and Prints" and gives an informal tour of her exhibition.
Keiko Hara: Four Decades of Paintings and Prints This mini-survey exhibition chronicles Hara’s commitment to painting and her unique form of Japanese woodblock printmaking, over a 40-year period. Her abstract compositions are at once sensitive yet executed in vibrant color with references to water, fire, skies and verdant lands, offering rich metaphorical imagery. Through March 4, open Tue-Fri 1-4 pm, Sat 10 am-4 pm.
Our Stories, Our Lives: Irwin Nash Photographs of Yakima Valley Migrant Labor Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange, made famous by her black-and-white “migrant mother” photo of a Dust Bowl refugee, also visited the Yakima Valley. In 1939, Lange documented the lives of the rural poor, among them agricultural workers. Nearly 30 years later, photographer Irwin Nash followed her path, finding similar scenes of rural poverty but also a thriving, mostly Chicano culture. And whereas Lange never returned to the Yakima Valley, Nash did — every year for 11 years. He not only documented a decade of day-to-day life there, but also the emergence of the United Farm Workers union to combat worker exploitation. Forty of Nash’s 9,400 photographs are displayed for this exhibition, offering a rare and heartfelt glimpse into the history of our Central Washington neighbors.