Hello, my name is Rowan Johnson. I am a first year Creative Writing major at SOU and the new content creator for Inside the Museum the SMA's new newsletter feature. Through web articles, videos, and other digital media Inside the Museum will provide you with more information on our exhibitions from both the permanent and rotating collection, giving you a look beyond the art on view. Thank you for your support and I look forward to learning along with you.
We Take the Long Way Photo Credit: Grace Prechtel
Art Therapy: Neurodiversity has long been misunderstood by the general public and misrepresented in the media. Recently, there has been a revival of the discussion of ethics currently used to help neurodiverse individuals. In this discussion, more ethical therapy practices are being implemented. One of these practices is art therapy. Jessica Stallings, a clinician, professor, and award winning researcher, is teaching people how to use the arts as a coping mechanism.
Learn more about Stallings work in the link below and visit the Schneider Museum of Art to see neurodiverse artists' creations in the exhibition We Take the Long Way curated by Bruce Burris.
Surrealism: Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo; what do all these artists have in common? Besides the impact they have had on modern art history, they were all surrealist artists.
Learn more about the fantastical world of surrealism in an article by The Park West Gallery and see in person A Parisian Afternoon by Dorothea Tanning while it’s still on display.
Bruce Burris, someolloggasaideveryfingertellsastory, 48x34x3, mixed media on canvas, 2020
The Arts in Healthcare: Part of the Bruce Burris exhibition A Shrine for a Shrine was inspired by Burris’s time working in hospitals. It was through these experiences that he wanted to extend artistic creation into medical spaces, giving patients the opportunity to express and process all they have been going through. With the recent focus on healthcare settings, bringing some joy into bleak and monotonous environments can improve one's experience and overall recovery. Americans for the Arts published an article about the impact of different art forms on things like patient compliance, recovery, and quality of life with art programs in hospitals.
Read more in the link below and come to see the exhibition that was inspired by this advancement in healthcare.
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(VIDEO) Creative Industries Discussion: Bruce Burris
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The Schneider Museum of Art is located within the ancestral homelands of the Shasta, Takelma, and Latgawa peoples who lived here since time immemorial. These Tribes were displaced during rapid Euro-American colonization, the Gold Rush, and armed conflict between 1851 and 1856. In the 1850s, discovery of gold and settlement brought thousands of Euro-Americans to their lands, leading to warfare, epidemics, starvation, and villages being burned. In 1853 the first of several treaties were signed, confederating these Tribes and others together – who would then be referred to as the Rogue River Tribe. These treaties ceded most of their homelands to the United States, and in return they were guaranteed a permanent homeland reserved for them. At the end of the Rogue River Wars in 1856, these Tribes and many other Tribes from western Oregon were removed to the Siletz Reservation and the Grand Ronde Reservation. Today, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (https://www.grandronde.org) and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians (http://www.ctsi.nsn.us/) are living descendants of the Takelma, Shasta, and Latgawa peoples of this area. We encourage you to learn about the land you reside on, and to join us in advocating for the inherent sovereignty of Indigenous people.
Hello, my name is Rowan Johnson. I am a first year Creative Writing major at SOU and the new content creator for Inside the Museum the SMA's new newsletter feature. Through web articles, videos, and other digital media Inside the Museum will provide you with more information on our exhibitions from both the permanent and rotating collection, giving you a look beyond the art on view. Thank you for your support and I look forward to learning along with you.
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