2020 Spring Storm

56 pagesSpring 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

2021 Spring Storm

48 pagesThe 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

2022 Spring Storm

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

2016 Spring Storm

56 pagesThe 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

2017 Spring Storm

57 pagesThe 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

2019 Spring Storm

36 pagesSpring 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

2015 Spring Storm

49 pagesIn 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

5 Minutes

38 pages5 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

2014 Spring Storm

56 pagesSpring 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

University of Oregon Department of Art MFA Thesis

13 pagesAlthough 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