Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) is a premier Pacific Northwest visual arts center for exhibitions and collections of historic and contemporary art. The building, designed by Ellis F. Lawrence, founding dean of the UO School of Architecture and Allied Arts, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The largest museum between Portland and San Francisco, the JSMA features approximately 23,000 square feet of exhibition space and is one of six museums in Oregon accredited by the American Association of Museums. The museum is set to launch its seventy-fifth anniversary celebration in June 2008.

  • Annually, approximately 50,000 people visit galleries featuring American, European, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese art from the museum's collections of more than 13,000 objects.
  • The Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery hosts major traveling shows and other special exhibitions.
  • An education suite features an interactive discovery gallery, art studio, and the Cheryl Ramberg Ford Lecture Hall, while museum staff members provide educational programs and other outreach activities locally, regionally, and statewide that benefit more than 10,000 students and their teachers each year.
  • The seventy-fifth anniversary exhibitions include: Faster, Higher, Farther: The Spirit of Track and Field, June 14 to September 1; Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, June 26 to September 7; The Thinking Body, June 26 to September 7; Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from The Farber Collection, October 4 to January 4, 2009; Looking Forward/Looking Back, January 24 to April 12, 2009; and Master of Fine Arts 2009 Exhibition, May 2 to June 14, 2009.

The museum also offers public gathering places, including the Susie Papé Reception Hall opening onto an exterior courtyard, that may be rented for receptions and other social events. The Marché Museum Café features an affordable menu of soups, salads, sandwiches, pastries, and coffees that are fresh, seasonal, and regional, and Precious Cargo, the museum store, offers a stylish array of books, gifts, art, toys, and home décor.

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