Center for Art Research (CFAR)https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/279662024-03-28T10:03:56Z2024-03-28T10:03:56Z5 MinutesDepartment of Art, University of OregonMasters of Fine Arts Candidates, University of Oregonhttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/292702024-03-23T07:38:32Z2023-01-01T00:00:00Z5 Minutes
Department of Art, University of Oregon; Masters of Fine Arts Candidates, University of Oregon
5 Minutes is a collection of informal interviews with the artists and art professionals from the University of Oregon’s Visiting Artist Lecture series, conducted by art and art history graduate students. The Visiting Artists Lectures calls upon its artists, curators, educators, and designers to speak on their background and their practice. 5 Minutes is an addendum that looks to create a more personal engagement between the visiting artists and the University of Oregon community. Occurring in studios, offices, and over Zoom, the interviews by their own structure are loose but reflect a meaningful look into the voices of the interviewer and interviewee.
98 pages
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZNoonCenter for Art Research, University of Oregonhttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/292692024-03-23T07:38:31Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZNoon
Center for Art Research, University of Oregon
Noon may be the least romanticized phase of a day. Not a beginning or an end, but a quiet tipping point. The lighting does not swoon as dawn and dusk, the energy does not pulse. But one can move without the deep shadows of other times — a body alone without the complications of its drawn shell. This time for our world may be noon. Soft noon, lower case, not to slide into the hard High Noon of Western pastiche. We find ourselves just past history-making periods for racial justice, social networks, and women’s rights. After such upheaval, these spaces are changed but not by any means resolved. Restitution has hardly begun. Sickness lingers. Losses of ground around every corner. Wars draw on with faltering attention. There is a sense still of the day ahead, but not many markers for what it will bring. Aren’t we close enough to dusk for urgency? Our project, of commissioning and gathering art writing into bound books, holds evidence of this epoch. Writers are still hit by COVID, again and again. People are torn: their attentions, families, lives of joining adjunct work with writing work with editing work, curating. They are tired from pressing very hard through the past two years, with less time even in the face of days that are far more domestic. To return to the image of the body alone without shadow: at this noon, we are more able to see each other as we are. The writing of the hour has less arch, less bass, but more authenticity, be it a look back at an artist-run space of decades ago or a futuristic journey. These writers are working confidently, with their voices and their propositions clear.
84 pages
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZTHE FORD FAMILY FOUNDATION AND THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON CURATOR AND CRITIC TOURS AND LECTURES: CONNECTIVE CONVERSATIONS, INSIDE OREGON ART 2011-2014School of Art + Designhttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/282112023-04-27T07:29:21Z2014-01-01T00:00:00ZTHE FORD FAMILY FOUNDATION AND THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON CURATOR AND CRITIC TOURS AND LECTURES: CONNECTIVE CONVERSATIONS, INSIDE OREGON ART 2011-2014
School of Art + Design
In 2014 The Ford Family Foundation concluded the first five years of funding for its Visual Arts
Program, which supports Oregon's visual artists and enhances the state's visual arts ecology. A
strong element of the program was the Curator and Critic Tour and Lecture Series; ten respected
out-of- state curators and critics came to Oregon to interact with 69 visual artists in their
studios, provide professional feed- back, and offer community lectures. Equally important, they
became more knowledgeable about the visual arts in Oregon, which will help the artists make crucial
connec- tions in other markets.
This book is The Ford Family Foundation's opportunity to celebrate the Oregon artists visited on
the Tour and to ex- pose many more people to their work. Each of the artists has his or her own
distinctive voice, yet a common thread ran through the intensely personalized conversations with
the curators and critics - hard work. Noted one artist: "The most important thing is the dedication
to the studio art practice because ultimately success is a byproduct of
how hard you're willing to work."
153 pages
2014-01-01T00:00:00ZCatalytic Conversation: Craft and the HyperobjectCenter for Art Research, University of Oregonhttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/280212023-02-22T08:47:48Z2021-01-01T00:00:00ZCatalytic Conversation: Craft and the Hyperobject
Center for Art Research, University of Oregon
CFAR’s Catalytic Conversations serve the creative practices of individuals and groups by giving them an opportunity to engage a small body of thinkers in ways that contribute to a project or line of thinking that is in development. These conversations are recorded, transcribed, and archived as reference materials for those involved. This particular Catalytic Conversation was the first that CFAR conducted with intent to publish.
51 pages
2021-01-01T00:00:00Z