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Pop Art History

Pop Art as a movement kicked off in England in the mid 1950’s and traveled to the US in the late 1950’s. It is an art form that challenged the popular illustrative media before it, fine art. From Andy Worhol to Jasper Johns, the appeal of pop art is its classic comic book stylization, bold colors, and simple shapes. Learn more about how Pop Art came to be in the link below and see the influential Roy Lichtenstein’s work Still Life with Pearls at the Schneider Museum of Art in the Entry Gallery today.

Slugs

Often seen as simple garden pests, slugs are extremely important to keeping the ecosystem functioning efficiently. Acting as both composters for rotting vegetation and carcasses and food for birds, Slugs and snails are essential to the natural decay and “clean up” process. Learn more about snails and slugs in the link below and watch them in action in a short film by Kurtis Hough in the Treehaven Gallery at the Schneider Museum of Art.

Folk Art

Blend the beautiful with the useful and you get folk art. Seen as the cultural creations of working class people, folkart is more about practicality and storytelling than raw aesthetics. Folk art itself is a broad term incorporating literature, dance, and music. Folk art is divided from fine art or the “elite” due to its utilitarian purpose. Often used to preserve cultures of immigrants in the diaspora, folk art is a way of carrying on traditions and stories from the motherland. Learn more about folk art as a genre below and see Clare Rojas’s visual depiction of folklore in her piece Creatures of the Night in the Entry Gallery of the Schneider Museum of Art.

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.

Pop Art History

Slugs

Folk Art

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