April Waters, "Ice-Time, Iceberg by Litchfield Island, Antarctica" (detail), 2019
April Waters: Water-Ice-Sky, Antarctica
May 7 – August 13, 2022
Study Gallery and Print Study Center
In 2018, Salem artist April Waters as a grantee of the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, traveled to Palmer Station, Antarctica, to observe, study, photograph, and sketch the ocean, icebergs, and Marr Glacier. The exhibition features a range of Antarctica paintings created over the past three years as well as text panels that describe her journey and the science being done at Palmer Station.
David Roberts, "Cairo, Looking West" (detail), 1839
David Roberts: Artist and Traveler
June 4 – August 27, 2022
Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery
David Roberts (Scottish, 1796-1864) was a self-taught painter who rose from the depths of poverty and obscurity in Edinburgh to become one of the most celebrated artists and travelers of his generation. The exhibition features prints, drawings, and watercolors of the Iberian Peninsula and the Middle East on loan from Ken and Linda Sheppard, the Yale Center for British Art, the Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum, and the Huntington Library, Museum, and Garden.Upcoming Exhibitions
Rick Silva, "Grand Staircase-Escalante," 2018
Rick Silva: Western Fronts
August 27 – December 3, 2022
Study Gallery
Silva’s work integrates art and technology and poses questions about politics and place. As a response to the Trump administration's decision to strip land from four major national monuments – Cascade Siskiyou in Oregon, California, Gold Butte in Nevada, and Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Bears Ears in Utah - Silva sought out to critically examine the effects of the presidential declaration.
Russell Smith (Kwakwaka'wakw, 1950-2011), "Eagle," 1988
TRANSFORMATIONS: The George and Colleen Hoyt Collection of Northwest Coast Art
September 17 – December 17, 2022
Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery
This exhibition traces the revival and history of contemporary Northwest Coast indigenous art over the past 75 years through the George and Colleen Hoyt Collection of Pacific Northwest Art. It includes masks, wooden objects, and prints by some of Canada and Alaska’s most important and distinguished artists.Permanent Exhibitions
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Northwest Perspectives: Selections from the Permanent Collection
On permanent view
Carl Hall Gallery
Visitors can explore new ideas of landscape, narrative, identity, form and process through a variety of paintings, sculptures and mixed media that highlight both visual and conceptual relationships between historic and contemporary art.
The gallery provides the museum with an opportunity to share many previously unviewed works that capture the rich and varied expressions that have taken place during the past century, which has been marked by rapid changes in the art world, the Northwest and its landscape.
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Ancestral Dialogues: Conversations in Native American Art
On permanent view
The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Gallery
Featuring works from the museum’s permanent collection of American Indian art, this exhibition is organized around the concept of dialogue. The focus is on native art history as a dynamic, rich legacy from which contemporary arts grow today. Art works are placed in conversation, juxtaposed so that the work of many generations is in visual dialogue across time, telling stories of creation, transformation, and renewal. Historic baskets, bags, regalia, and lithics are displayed side by side with contemporary art works by artists such as Rick Bartow, James Lavadour, Bud Lane, Lillian Pitt, Pat Courtney Gold, and Joe Feddersen among many others.
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Across Continents, Through Time
On permanent view
Mark and Janeth Sponenburgh Gallery
This exhibition features selections from the museum’s European, Asian, and American Collections, which span 4,500 years and encompass four continents: Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. On view are paintings, ceramics, prints, sculptures, textiles, architectural fragments, archaeological artifacts, Orthodox icons and decorative arts that will deepen visitors’ appreciation for artworks of aesthetic quality and expressive significance from cultural traditions worldwide.
Many of the works of art displayed in this gallery were generously donated to Willamette University in 1990 by Mark and Janeth Sponenburgh, and formed the basis for the creation of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.
Print Study Center
On permanent view
Print Study Center
The museum’s collections of works on paper – prints, drawings, paintings on paper, and photographs – are stored, studied and displayed in the Print Study Center. The collection includes many contemporary American works, particularly by artists of the Pacific Northwest. Other highlights include etchings by the 17th-century Dutch artist Anthonie Waterloo, and 19th-century American expatriate artist James Abbott McNeil Whistler, as well as an early pictorial photograph by Edward Steichen. Temporary exhibitions in the Print Study Center are designed to highlight works in the permanent collection, and complement and enhance the special exhibitions on view.
Point of View
On permanent view
Landing to the second floor
In this ongoing exhibition series, we invite members of the Willamette community to share their experience or interpretation of a work of art from the perspective of their area of expertise, study, or research. Each semester we will offer a new work, and a new "point of view."