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2014 Spring Storm
(2014) Department of Art, University of Oregon
Spring Storm has become a great new tradition for the University of Oregon Department of Art. Featuring the work of the graduating seniors in Art and Digital Arts, it is a wonderful opportunity to see their culminating work and celebrate their accomplishments. More importantly, the Spring Storm exhibition is a catalyst for students to reflect on their work in the program and to synthesize their ideas and practices. Through senior capstone project courses or other advanced classes, students engage this synthesis with strong faculty mentorship. As undergraduates studying art, they are challenged not only to learn about the discipline, but also to take action; they must develop their own work and voice within the context of their field. Encompassing an unusually broad range of practices, our curriculum includes photography, sculpture, ceramics, metalsmithing and jewelry, painting, drawing, fibers and printmaking, as well as digital arts, which includes print media, animation, video and interactivity. The Department of Art encourages expansive study; students work in a few different media areas during their four years in the program, though they often concentrate in one or two areas. Art and digital arts majors at the University of Oregon are exposed to a remarkable array of contemporary art practices and the work in the Spring Storm reflects that energy and diversity.
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2015 Spring Storm
(2015) Department of Art, University of Oregon
In its third edition, Spring Storm presents the creative endeavors and accomplishments of our graduating seniors with a public exhibition and accompanying catalog. As undergraduate art and digital art majors, our students gain a wonderful breadth of study through foundational coursework and experimentation across a wide range of disciplines. Within this rich and diverse community, students are both connected to the historic traditions of specific mediums and engaged in a contemporary process of inquiry and exploration. With the mentorship of faculty members in capstone or advanced courses, students bridge the gap between ideas and material, form or image to create meaningful and unique works of art. Our students learn to think responsively, ask questions, look for creative solutions, and express ideas apropos to their regional culture while adapting and responding to a global landscape. In this way, Spring Storm marks the culmination of their creative studies in the Department of Art and represents a significant moment in their evolution from students to young artists.
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2016 Spring Storm
(2016) Department of Art, University of Oregon
The Department of Art proudly presents Spring Storm 2016, an exhibition showcasing the work of graduating seniors in the Department of Art, the Digital Arts Program, and the Product Design Program. The exhibition, now in its fourth year, celebrates the culmination of their studies and is a wonderful opportunity for fellow students, friends, family, and the community to recognize their creative achievements. Through senior capstone or advanced courses, students learn to synthesize concept, material, image, and form to create unique works of art and design. As undergraduates studying art and design, our students learn to think responsively and responsibly, ask questions, explore creative ideas, and experiment with materials and processes. Their work represents a broad range of practices reflecting the scope of our curriculum, which includes photography, sculpture, ceramics, metalsmithing and jewelry, painting, drawing, fibers, and printmaking, as well as print media, animation, video, and interactivity in digital arts, and the use, design, and production of consumer products. The studio-based practice and cross-disciplinary philosophy of our program are rooted in a strong liberal arts education within the research university. The energy is remarkable. Creative projects occupy studios, classrooms, gallery spaces, hallways, and outdoor spaces during Spring Storm 2016. As faculty members, we are honored to usher our graduating seniors into the world as emerging artists and designers with a strong sense of their own work and voice within the context of their field and the greater contemporary world.
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2017 Spring Storm
(2017) Department of Art, University of Oregon
The Department of Art is proud to present the exhibition catalog for 2017 Spring Storm, featuring the work of graduating seniors in Art, Art and Technology, and Digital Arts. The artworks in the exhibition showcase an amazingly diverse range of media and approaches, which reflect the scope of our curriculum in photography, sculpture, ceramics, metalsmithing & jewelry, painting, drawing, fibers, and printmaking, as well as in new methods and practices offered by technological innovation and digital media. Our students experiment with processes, explore ideas, research traditions and histories, collaborate, engage critique, and are dedicated to their studio practice. With the mentorship of faculty in senior capstone or advanced courses, students synthesize concept, material, and form to create expressive and distinctive works of art that reflect their contemporary perspectives. Faculty, students, friends, family and community come together in celebration of this commendable milestone in the creative and academic studies of our graduating majors.
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2018 Spring Storm
(2018) Department of Art, University of Oregon
The School of Art + Design Spring Storm 2018 is the culminating exhibition for senior students completing degrees in Art, Art & Technology and Product Design. Representing the synthesis of studio work across the last four years, each student develops a piece with support from their faculty mentor in the final term. Throughout their education, Art + Design students have benefited from close relationships with faculty and their peers in studio classes. Engaging a broad range of work across art and design, students have not only developed formal, technical, material and critical capabilities, they have also cultivated individual perspectives and practices. Our students are equipped with 21st century approaches - from sculpture, photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, fibers, and metalsmithing to interactivity, video, animation, visual communications, and emerging technology to designing objects for use across a broad range of scales and purposes - ready to raise questions, shape experience and solve problems through their work.
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2019 Spring Storm
(2019) Department of Art, University of Oregon
Spring Storm is the culminating exhibition for School of Art + Design senior students completing degrees in Art, Art & Technology and Product Design. Synthesizing the work accomplished throughout their studies, each student develops a piece with support from their faculty mentor in the final term. Engaging a broad range of work across art and design, students have not only developed formal, technical, material and critical capabilities, they have also cultivated individual perspectives and practices. Our students are equipped with 21st century approaches - from sculpture, photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, fibers, and metalsmithing to interactivity, video, animation, visual communications, and emerging technology to designing objects for use across a broad range of scales and purposes – ready to raise questions, shape experience and solve problems through their work. Spring Storm is a celebration of the diversity of those efforts and ideas across Art + Design, all the catalytic interactions and the individual discoveries made during these seniors’ college careers.
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2020 Spring Storm
(2020) Department of Art, University of Oregon
Spring Storm is an annual exhibition celebrating the creative work in art and design by senior students completing degrees in Art, Art & Technology and Product Design. The work and practices of our students exemplify the diversity of 21st century approaches, using traditional and new media to address compelling questions in contemporary culture. This year our senior students completed their studies in the midst of the Covid-19 global pandemic; yet with purpose and resolve, they continued to evolve their creative ideas, make new work, and connect with their community and audience. Spring Storm 2020 is presented as a print catalog and website - a record and celebration of their remarkable creative journeys, ambitions, and readiness to take on new challenges.
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2021 Spring Storm
(2021) Department of Art, University of Oregon
The School of Art + Design’s annual end-of-year exhibition Spring Storm celebrates the culminating work of our senior students completing degrees in Art, Art & Technology, and Product Design. Engaging a broad range of art and design practices, their work reflects the pluralism of contemporary culture and the dynamism of their curiosity and engagement. We are so proud of all they have discovered as students in Art + Design. All the late nights in the studio, making things work. All of the seemingly impossible problems their faculty posed to them, and the surprising outcomes catalyzed. All of the ways their vision has grown – what became interesting, what became possible, what their own ideas, passions and capabilities are. Spring Storm marks a pivotal moment for our graduating seniors, celebrating their college experience and launching them into lifetime of creative thinking and innovative action.
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2022 Spring Storm
(2022) Department of Art, University of Oregon
Students completing their degrees in Art, Art & Technology, and Product Design have been working tirelessly to imagine, invent, create, and realize a tremendous range of independent creative projects. These artists and designers have forged ahead during these strange and unsettling times, developing unexpected ways of doing things, collaborating in new ways, and realizing amazing projects.
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Department of Art MFA Thesis Exhibition 2018
(University of Oregon, 2018) Department of Art, University of Oregon; Wurts, Alexander; Hughes, Laura; Wood, Natalie; Milner, Stephen
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University of Oregon Department of Art MFA
(University of Oregon, 2019) Department of Art, University of Oregon; Bjork, Aaron Whitney; Claybrook, Talon; Howell, Leah; Khan, Sumer Haseena; Miller, Daniel; Moignard, Neal; Parnes, Stephanie; Segapeli, Aja; Thompson, Kayla; Vaughn, Jen
The Department of Art at the University of Oregon is pleased to present our 2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center in Portland, Oregon. Marking the culmination of three years of rigorous studio investigation and critical discourse, the ten artists in this exhibition engage a wide breadth of art making practices that build on and challenge the histories of painting, sculpture, photography, print media, craft and digital practices. The exhibition is the outcome of the expansive work undertaken by our graduates and their intellectual curiosity in looking deeply at the conditions prevalent and pressing in our world today. With dramatic shifts in practice over the past three years, this cohort of artists have created a tight-knit community through the exchange of ideas formed by extensive conversations with our nationally and internationally recognized faculty, visiting artists, critics and curators. For this catalog, we bring our MFA Graduates together with the PHD and MA students in the History of Art and Architecture Department to produce written reflections on the creative processes and concepts behind the works of our ten graduating artists. This collaborative initiative, made possible through the stellar organization of Professor Jenny Lin, highlights what we hope to accomplish in our academic and artistic life – gather together around contexts that matter and build connections that expand our subject positions. So, it is with great pride that we celebrate the final work created by our 2019 MFA graduates at the University of Oregon and we look forward to watching and cheering their creative endeavors yet to come.
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University of Oregon Department of Art MFA Thesis
(University of Oregon, 2020) Department of Art, University of Oregon; Walot, Doran; Talaei, Elnaz; Zhang, Junwei
Although the University of Oregon has one of the oldest MFA programs in the country, this is the first time in its almost 100-year history that graduating students have not been able to present their work in a public exhibition. Certainly, this is not the way any of us imagined the year would go. Following executive orders in March to shelter in place due to COVID-19, our students were abruptly displaced from their studios, as well as their close-knit community of fellow artists. With the thesis show just weeks away, completing the work required multiple kinds of collaboration, solving unexpected logistical challenges, and working in the absence of their peers during the crucial final weeks. While navigating the dizzying pace of events that followed, this group of artists not only persevered, but they also triumphed. We are proud to present the thesis work of the 2020 MFA class in the pages that follow. Through deep introspection, hours of independent research and faculty critique, and an inspiring commitment to their studio work, each of these artists has developed a rich and complex project. While we cannot all be together in person to celebrate these accomplishments, we are proud to share and honor their projects here, from a distance.
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University of Oregon Department of Art MFA Thesis Exhibition Catalog
(University of Oregon, 2021) Department of Art, University of Oregon; Turner, Caroline; Anderson, Claire; DeVaughn, Devon; Evans, Eden V.; Molloy, Ian Sherlock; Ward, Nathan Alexander; Amini, Sajad; Reckling, Tannon
Every spring our graduating MFA candidates’ work emerges and activates the Art Department and the College of Design with an ethos of possibility and insight. Their creative research of new knowledge, or the rearrangement of old knowledge, brings with it the sense that a new day is rising. The 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition culminates three years of independent research and experimentation by a cohort of eight artists whose various practices engage a broad range of inquiry, from expressions of the personal and diaristic to the examination and fictionalization of language, politics, and technology. While the world teetered this last year—fraught over the COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustice, and political chaos these candidates focused on their practices as the world blurred. They’ve shaped new strategies to teach on-line, built new curriculum to communicate remotely, and cloistered in their studios articulating their practices all the while navigating crisis shared with the nation. As the pandemic ebbs I hope the MFA Graduates of 2021 move forward with a sense of not only a new day rising but a new world emerging.
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UO Art 2017 MFA
(University of Oregon, 2017) Department of Art, University of Oregon; Campbell, Andrew Douglas; Couch, Chelsea; Weng, Esther; Moore, Joe; Asahina, Lee; Hampton, Mandy; Morgan, Mary Margaret; Wallace, Meril; Linn, Ron
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of French literary critic and theorists Roland Barthes’ influential 1967 essay, The Death of the Author. In countless MFA critiques and seminars, artists have grappled with Barthes’ essay and its implications related to de-skilling, negation of authorial voice, and birth of the reader/viewer. Each of the nine artists included in the University of Oregon’s 2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition undoubtedly addresses the viewer, challenging audiences to explore new ways of thinking about and moving in the world through infiltration, translation, and humor. Yet in all of the artworks presented, the viewer “is born” not at the expense and death of the author, but through a shared insistence on the importance of the relationship between artist and viewer, artistic presence, and/or the laying bare of the production apparatus.
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UO Art MFA 2022
(University of Oregon, 2022) Department of Art, University of Oregon; Cebere, Agnese; Lichucki, Caroline; Buzzee, Dana; Langley, Erin; Petkau, Hannah; Clarke, Kara; Herceg, Noelle; Stoll, Tyler
Each year the terminal creative projects from our MFA candidates elevate and activate discourse and pleasure in the Art Department and across the College of Design with an ethos of fearless possibility. Their creative research of new knowledge, or the rearrangement of old knowledge, brings with it the sense that new texts have been penned, and new discourses activated. The University of Oregon MFA Art 2022 Exhibition culminates three years of independent research and experimentation by a cohort of eight artists whose various practices engage a broad range of inquiry, from expressions of the personal and diaristic to the examination and fictionalization of history, gender, magical thinking, cinema tropes, and the natural world. Over the last three years these candidates have navigated generational complexities while trying to transform their experiences and transcend the moment. This year marks the 99th year of the University’s MFA degree, making it one of the oldest programs in the country. As the program’s centennial moment approaches, we watch The MFA Graduates of 2022 realize their creative perspectives while challenging their audiences to view the world through a new lens.

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