JSMA Academic Support Grant Recipients 2013-14
For its second year of Academic Support Grants, the JSMA partnered with the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Robert Clark Honor’s College to raise a total of $17,500, which was generously matched by the Office of the Provost. The following partnerships strengthen academic use of the museum.
Fall 2013
The James Blue Project
Applicant: David Frank (Honor’s College)
Number of students involved: 15 directly in project, but all Honor’s College students will be encouraged to attend as well those in other colleges participating in the campus-wide project.
Description:The Honor’s College will create a program—James Blue and the Socially Engaged Documentary—for its students that runs from through the academic year devoted to exploring the life and career of James Blue, a UO alumnus filmmaker. The project is presented in tandem with the Schnitzer Cinema’s Blue film series. Funding will go toward visiting lecturers Gerald O’Grady, former chair of the Department of Media Studies at SUNY Buffalo and Rice University, and David MacDougal, the eminent Australian ethnographic filmmaker, who co-directed Kenya Boran (1976) with Blue.
Exhibition:Korda and the Revolutionary Image (Focus Gallery, August 13, 2013 – January 15, 2014
Applicant: Carlos Aguirre(CAS History/Latin American Studies)
Number of students involved: 15 students in HIST 407/507 plus many others in History, Romance Languages, Art History, and Latin American Studies
Description: This special exhibition will support Aguirre’s seminar “Human Rights and Memory in Latin America.” In the case of the Cuban revolution, photography played a significant role in the way in which both official and popular memories of the revolution were constructed.
Exhibition and Conference: Song Tao, From Last Century(Artist Project Space, September 28 – December 1, 2013)
Applicant: Jenny Lin (AAA/HAA)
Number of students involved: 100+in art, art history, and cinema studies courses
Description:The special exhibition, featuring a 3-part video by one memberof the Shanghai-based art duo “Birdhead,”will form the core of a course on Chinese contemporary art and a related conference. The media installation and supporting activities will also benefit other courses in art history, art, cinema studies, architecture, and arts administration (museum studies).
Exhibition and Conference: Iberian and Latin American Transatlantic Studies (Transatlanticism,MacKinnon Gallery, August 27, 2013 – February 9, 2014)
Applicant: Cecilia Enjuto Rangel and Pedro García-Caro (CAS/Romance Languages)
Number of students involved: 55
Description: This project supports both the Transatlantic Studies Symposium, which will bring about 30 contributors to an article in the Iberian and Latin American Transatlantic Studies Reader to present their papers and an exhibition drawn from the JSMA’s holdings in Latin American and Spanish art. Featured will be works by Picasso, Miro, Dali, Matta, and Tamayo.
iBook: Gardens in Art – Art in Gardens
August – December 2013
Applicant:Ina Asim (CAS/History)
Number of students involved: students in HIST 487/587, ongoing
Description: Produce an iBook that features Chinese scholar’s gardens in different artworks in the JSAM collection, which will showcase how the topic of gardens is used in Chinese material culture. Grant will be used toward research and digitization of images.
Amount: $1,250 (CAS)
Acquisition of XIE Xiaoze’sOrder (The Red Guards)
Applicants: Bryna Goodman (CAS/History) and Akiko Walley (AAA/HAA)
Number of Students involved: 100+: ongoing support for research seminar on the cultural revolution and historical memory in History, as well classes in Asian Studies, HAA, Journalism, EALL, and International Studies. This work presents exciting opportunities for trans-disciplinary collaborations in teaching and research. The Department of the History of Art and Architecture has two professors of Chinese art, one of whom (Jenny Lin) specializes in art and design of China from the twentieth- to twenty-first century.
Exhibitions:Art of Traditional Japanese Theater – Parts 1 and 2
(Preble/Murphy Galleries, Fall 2013 and Winter 2014)
Applicant: Glynne Walley (CAS/East Asian Languages and Literatures)
Number of students involved: 50+ in EALL, HAA, and History
Description: Drawn from the museum’s holdingsand augmented with loans from other collections, these two installations will present Japanese theater-related woodblock prints, books, paintings, decorative arts, and puppets(along with a didactic Touch Screen monitor) that will allow students and visitors to explore the nō, kyōgen, bunraku, and kabuki traditions.
Winter 2014
Exhibition: The Messengers (Artist Project Space, January – March 2014)
Applicant: Colin Ives (AAA/ART)
Number of students involved: 150 in Digital Arts courses
Description: This interactive installation by Kathy Marmor relies on user content to create Twitter-influenced mash-ups. The resulting randomized sentences depict abbreviated communication gone awry and run the gamut from hilarious nonsense to poetry.
Spring 2014
Music Performance for Daura Exhibition
Applicant: Phaedra Livingstone (AAA/AAD) with Laura Wayte (Music)
Number of students involved: 100: 13 in music course, 15-20 in Daura courses, others in both schools
Description: Voice students will learn about Catalan artist Pierre Daura and his work, attending specific course sections and conducting independent research, and then choose music to perform in the gallery during the exhibition. The music will be chosen among Spanish composers from the same region as Daura. The Daura courses are cross-listed with AAD (museum studies certificate) and ArH.
Museums on Film
Applicant: Phaedra Livingstone (AAA /AAD)
Number of students involved:75directly through ANTH and AAD courses
Description: Embedded in two museum studies courses, Museum Theory and The Anthropology Museum, this film series, the series will explore museum theory and practice, facility design, and community engagement. The program will be planned in conjunction with the museum’s Schnitzer Cinema and its director, Richard Herskowitz.
Exhibition: Vanessa Renwick: Hunting Requires Optimism (Artist Project Space, April 15 – May 11, 2014)
Applicant: Richard Herskowitz (AAA /AAD)
Number of students involved: 50 in Film Festivals course and Cinema Pacific AAD Practicum; more than 100 attending talks
Description: Portland-based experimental filmmaker Vanessa Renwick will be a featured guest at this year’s Cinema Pacific film festival. Her media installation, which consists of ten video monitors inside ten refrigerators, depicting wolves hunting for their prey, contrasts the challenges wolves face in finding food with those of humans seeing sustenance. Renwick will present a program of her films with live musical accompaniment and a new film on wolf management as part of Cinema Pacific.
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