Hallie Ford Museum of Art presents: Senior Studio Art Majors 2024 – April 20-May 18 in #SalemOR

IN/BETWEEN:

Senior Studio Art Majors 2024

April 20 – May 18, 2024

Hallie Ford Museum of Art | Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery

Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior art studio majors at Willamette University. Characterized by a wide variety of styles and approaches, the exhibition includes work in a range of media. 

The exhibition, which represents the culmination of the student’s four years at Willamette, is paired with a small solo exhibition of recent work by one of the faculty members in the art department at Willamette University. The purpose of the exhibitions are to demonstrate the continuing connection and relationship between student and faculty research.

This year’s senior studio art majors exhibition is paired with the faculty exhibition, Alexandra Opie: What Remains, which focuses on recent works by Alexandra Opie, Professor of Art.

2024 senior art students include:

• Josefina Bovee 
• Patricia Jean Cambe
• Sage E. Clemons
• Eliana Belle Czuk
• Natalie Noelani Klett
• Hanna A. Krieger
• Sarah Jo Menke
• Morgan J. Murray

Exhibition Related Events

OPENING RECEPTION
IN/BETWEEN: Senior Art Majors 2024
April 19, 2024 | 6-8 p.m.
Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Free and open to the public

TUESDAY GALLERY TALK 
April 23, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. 
Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Free and open to the public

Join senior art majors Patricia Jean Cambe, Eliana Belle Czuk, Natalie Noelani Klett, and Hanna A. Krieger for a guided tour as they talk about their work.

TUESDAY GALLERY TALK 
April 30, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. 
Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Free and open to the public

Join senior art majors Josefina Bovee, Sage E. Clemons, Sarah Jo Menke, Morgan J. Murray for a guided tour as they talk about their work.

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OPEN HOUSE
Sunday, May 19, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Maribeth Collins Lobby, Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Free and open to the public

Financial Support

Financial support for this exhibition has been supported with funds from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission. 

Willamette University: A Reading and Workshop by Jen Soriano – Wed. April 3rd in #SalemOR

Spring 2024 Hallie Ford Literary Series presents author Jen Soriano

Workshop: Writing in Fragments

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Willamette Campus | Ford Hall | Writing Center

4:00 PM

A Reading

7:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Willamette Campus | Ford Hall | Room 122

Spring 2024 Hallie Ford Literary Series a reading with author Jen Soriano from her book “Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing“

This event is FREE and Open to the Public.

Sponsored by the Department of English, the Hallie Ford Chair in Writing, and the Writing Center.

For more information for this event, please contact Scott Nadelson <snadelson> 

To request disability accommodations for this event, please contact scheduling and events <schedule-info@willamette.edu>

CASA and the AIA are please to present Kyle Freund | Thurs. April 4th

The Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology and The Archaeological Institute of America present:

Sourcing Black Gold: Obsidian and Its Role in Interpreting the Archaeological Past

With Kyle Freund, Ph.D., RPA

Thursday, April 4, 2024 | 7:30 PM

Willamette University | Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center | John C. Paulus Lecture Hall (Room 201) | 245 Winter ST SE

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

For more information or to request disability accommodation for the event, please contact Reyna Meyers at rmeyers@willamette.edu or (503) 370-6061.

Willamette University presents: The 5th Annual E. John and Cleo A. Rumpakis Lecture – Thurs. March 14th in #SalemOR

The 5th Annual E. John and Cleo A. Rumpakis Lecture presents:

Dr. Rubina Raja (Aarhus University, Denmark)

Thursday, March 14, 2024 | 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Willamette University | Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center | John C. Paulus Lecture Hall (Room 201) | 245 Winter ST SE

Palmyra, ancient Tadmor, the famous oasis city in the Syrian Desert, flourished in the first three centuries CE. The city’s archaeology and history have fascinated scholars and laypeople alike since the 17th century, when the first Western explorers visited the site.

Since the war in Syria broke out, the site has gained further attention, not least due to the extensive damage and looting that has taken place. The archaeological evidence from the city is vast and complex and particularly the city’s abundant funerary art has held a central place in scholarship since the late 19th century.

This lecture will explore Palmyra’s archaeology and history through its material culture, art, architecture and written culture and ask the pivotal question: in which ways does the abundant material and written evidence, much of which has recently been collected in a set of new corpus works on the city’s portraiture, monuments and inscriptions add to our knowledge of Palmyra’s urban culture as well as to a more profound understanding of urban cultures in the Roman East in general? And just as importantly: which cultural influences can be traced through the material culture of this oasis city? and what does that tell us about continuities and changes?

The lecture is FREE and Open to the Public. 

For more information about the lecture please contact Reyna Meyers <rmeyers> or 503-370-6061.

To request disability accommodation for the event, please contact the Scheduling and Events at schedule-info@willamette.edu.

Willamette University Annual Frost Lecture: “The Life of a Medival London Boarding House” – Thurs. Feb. 29th

Willamette University Annual Frost Lecture

Katherine l. French, Guggenheim Fellow and J. Frederick Hoffman Professor of History, University of Michigan

Thursday, February 29, 2024 | 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Willamette University | Ford Hall | Rm 122, Smullin Film Studies Theater | 1140 State ST, Salem

In 1345, Westminster Abbey, inherited a large house in central London. As is the fate of many grand houses when they change owners, the Abbey carved up the large spaces into small rooms and turned it into a boardinghouse. Boarding houses were probably quite common in medieval cities, but they posed a challenge to civic authorities, who believed that good governance started with a male-headed household. Boarding houses, including the one Westminster built, attracted unattached men and women, that is people living outside the supervision of a responsible man.

This paper tells the story of both the house and some of the men and women who lived there. It traces the challenges the monks face in managing their unexpected inheritance and the changing profile of the tenants who lived in the house over the course of the late Middle Ages, showing how the house and its residents both responded to and shaped London’s larger social and political history. 

This event is Free and Open to the Public.

Sponsored by the Department of History and the Frost Lecture Series

For disability accommodation contact scheduling and events at schedule-info@willamette.edu

For information regarding the event itself, contact Reyna Meyers at rmeyers@willamette or 503-370-6061. 

Two Events at Willamette U.: “The Edible Essay” and “Good Eats!” – Thurs. Feb. 8th in #SalemOR

THE EDIBLE ESSAY:

WRITING CULINARY MEMOIR, WITH RECIPES

Thursday, February 8, 2024 | 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

Writing Center (Ford 105)

A recipe is a slice of history – an archival document that offers information about the author-cook’s complex identity. In this workshop, participants will work with Professor Jennifer Cognard-Black, co-editor of Books that Cook and Good Eats, to consider the recipe as a form of storytelling and meaning-making all its own and to excavate one of their own recipes to launch a culinary memoir or Edible Essay. Drawing from a favorite, cherished, despised, secret, and/or lost recipe from their own family or background, participants will discuss what aspects of individual and collective memory are contained within these recipes. Participants will then have the opportunity to engage in writing prompts that will launch their own Edible Essay.

Bistro coffee and cookies will be served.

Free and open to the public…

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GOOD EATS!

CREATIVE NONFICTION READING AND BOOK

LAUNCH CELEBRATION

Thursday, February 8, 2024 | 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM

Kremer Board Room (Ford 102)

In an age of mass factory farming, processed and prepackaged meals, and unprecedented food waste, how does one eat ethically? Please join us for a reading of selected essays from the new collection Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically — an imaginative and varied collection of writings by chefs, farmers, activists, educators, and journalists, all of whom seek to better understand the systems and cultures that shape our eating.

The evening will feature Associate Professor of History Wendy Petersen Boring and CAS alumna Katy Giombolini.

(ENVS, 2010), along with collection editor Jennifer Cognard-Black and three other contributors. Please come and celebrate the launch of Good Eats, hear the authors read their works, and enjoy some eats as well!

Refreshments will be served and books will be available for purchase at a discounted rate.

Free and open to the public…

Willamette University presents: Ancient and Modern Landmines: Excavating at Omrit in Northern Israel – Thurs. Jan. 18th

The Religious Studies department and the Center for Ancient Studies in Archaeology are proud to announce:

Daniel N. Schowalter

Professor of Classics and Religion at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He is co-Director of the Omrit Archaeological Excavations in Israel, and serves on the editorial board for the Oxford Biblical Studies Online and the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible.

Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 7:00 PM

Willamette University College of Law | John C. Paulus Lecture Hall (245 Winter ST SE, Salem)

Ancient and Modern Landmines: Excavating at Omrit in Northern Israel
Excavating on the eastern edge of the Hula Valley in northern Israel between 1999 and 2017 presented a variety of challenges related to the recovery of ancient materials and the encounter with modern socio/political realities.

Through a series of literal and metaphorical landmines, the excavators were able to learn a great deal about the site of Omrit in the Roman, Byzantine and Medieval periods
and also provide a context for students to gain a glimpse of the complexities of modern life in the region.

This event is FREE and Open to the Public!

For disability accommodation contact Scheduling and Events at schedule-info@willamette.edu
and for information regarding the event please contact Reyna Meyers at 503-370-6061 or email: rmeyers@willamette.edu.

Theatre 33 Presents: Holiday Shorts – Dec. 8th and 9th

ANNOUNCING: Theatre 33 presents:

HOLIDAY SHORTS

December 8–15 at 7 p.m.

December 9–10 at 2 p.m.

With a blend of wit, warmth, and a touch of holiday magic, Holiday Shorts offers a unique perspective on the essence of the yuletide season. Join Theatre 33 for an enchanting evening featuring a collection of short plays by Pacific Northwest Playwrights.

PURCHASE TICKETS

Theatre 33, in residence at Willamette University, is a new play development company that helps Oregon/NW playwrights develop their new scripts from our 60-hour rehearsed workshop production (fully designed lights, sound, props, set, costumes, entirely blocked with scripts in hand), to a world premiere full production. We are Oregon-centric, as evidenced by our name. Oregon was the 33rd state to join the union.

More about Theatre 33

Celebration! ‘Aha Mele Ho’oilo: For Maui – Sun. Nov. 19th at Willamette U. in #SalemOR

‘Aha Mele Ho’oilo: For Maui

Sunday, November 19, 2023 | 6:00 PM– 7:30 PM

Willamette University Salem Campus | Smith Auditorium

The Willamette Hawai’i Club and Hawaiian Musician Kermet Apio will perform a variety of songs & dances about Maui, Lahaina Town, and life in Hawai’i. There will be educational materials to learn more about the current issues on Maui & within Hawaiian ecosystems, and many links to valid charities for those with the capacity to donate.

On August 8th, 2023, wildfires began in Lahaina Town, a historically and culturally significant place for Native Hawaiians and Hawaiian residents.  Gov. Josh Green described the fires as the “largest natural disaster in Hawaii’s state history.” Over 2,200 buildings were destroyed and over 100 lives were lost. These fires are a direct result of colonization, climate change, and suppression of Native Hawaiian culture & practices. The Willamette University Hawai’i Club aims to raise awareness around the issues erupting in the place we call home. Join us for a night of learning, mourning, memorializing, and cultural expression on November 19th at 6 p.m. in Smith Auditorium. This event is not a fundraiser, but it is an awareness-raiser, so please attend with an open mind, a willingness to learn, and a deep respect for the Hawaiian Community. 

Lecture at Willamette U. in #SalemOR –

Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley by David G. Lewis

Monday, November 20, 2023 | 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

Willamette University | Putnam University Center | Alumni Lounge

The Willamette Valley is rich with history—its riverbanks, forests, and mountains have been home to the tribes of Kalapuya, Chinook, Molalla, and more for thousands of years. This history has been largely unrecorded, incomplete, poorly researched, or partially told. In these stories, enriched by photographs and maps, Oregon Indigenous historian David G. Lewis combines years of researching historical documents and collecting oral stories, highlighting Native perspectives about the history of the Willamette Valley as they experienced it.

The timeline spans the first years of contact between settlers and tribes, the takeover of tribal lands the creation of reservations by the US Federal Government, and the assimilation efforts of boarding schools. Lewis shows the resiliency of Native peoples in the face of colonization.

Undoing the erasure of these stories reveals the fuller picture of the colonization and changes experienced by the Native peoples of the Willamette Valley, absent from other contemporary histories of Oregon. 

About the Author

David G. Lewis, Ph.D. and member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, is a recognized researcher, scholar, writer and assistant professor of anthropology and Indigenous studies at Oregon State University. His publications include “Willamette Valley Treaties,” “A History of Native Peoples of the Eugene, Cascades & Coast Region,” and others. For more than twenty years, Lewis has been passionate about studying the original histories of the people of Oregon and California and has an extensive record of collaborative projects with regional scholars, tribes, local governments, and communities. Lewis’s research specializes in the history of Kalapuyans and other Western Oregon tribes, which he explores through journal essays and on his blog The Quartux Journal. He currently resides in Chemeketa, now Salem, Oregon, with his wife, Donna, and two sons, Saghaley and Inatye.

About the Sponsors

The 1842 Project College Colloquium and the Biology Department are leading the promotion of this book as part of ongoing collaborations with the author.    Books will be available for sale at the event.

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