by Rowan Johnson
SOU Class of 2025, Creative Writing
Bruce Burris: A Shrine for a Shrine Photo Credit: Grace Prechtel
Environmental Awareness with Art: Art isn’t just something pretty to look at. Especially now, artists have been using their platforms to spread public awareness on things important to them. It is a medium that allows people to express their message to a large audience instantly. One look and the audience knows the intent, focus, and purpose. Hongkiat, a technology and design company, posted 20 of their favorite art pieces highlighting social issues.
Check them out in the link below, and see Bruce Burris’s environmental awareness pieces in A Shrine for a Shrine at Schneider Museum of Art.
Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson-Paulsen: Portland, Oregon based artists Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson-Paulsen are contemporary artists that use everything from performative lectures, literary publications, and sculptures to convey their message. They use history, biographic information, and fiction to do this. The duo work together as artists but also as parents.
Learn more about their story in the link below and see their work now at the entrance of the Schneider Museum of Art.
David Alfero Siqueiros: Born December 29th, 1896 in Chihuahua, Mexico, David Alfero Siqueiros was a painter and muralist that was strong in surrealism. He was also politically engaged, using his platform to promote Marxist ideas even when it affected his commissions. His work affected artists like Jackson Pollock, a student of one of his classes.
Learn more about the Museum’s permanent collection artist down below.
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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.
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