Tom Prochaska, "Oregon," 2013.
Tom Prochaska: Music for Ghosts
June 6 – August 26, 2023
Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery
This retrospective exhibition explores the career of longtime Portland artist Tom Prochaska. Well known for his open ended narrative works, Prochaska has developed a body of work that often merges dreamlike memories with a dark sense of humor.
Jim Hibbard, "Jerusalem," 1989
Jim Hibbard: Back in View
May 6 – August 12, 2023
Study Gallery and Print Study Center
Jim Hibbard was an important Northwest artist who, after a 30-year career of exhibiting and teaching in Portland, established a new home and studio in Guanajuato, Mexico. This focused survey exhibition makes his Mexican work available to American audiences for the first time as well as revisits work from his earlier Portland years.
Character Development: Senior Studio Art Majors 2023
April 15 – May 20, 2023
Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery
Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior studio art majors at Willamette University. The exhibition represents the culmination of their four years at Willamette.
Ranran Fan
Ranran Fan: 上天入地 Ends of the Earth
April 15 – May 20, 2023
Atrium Gallery
This year’s featured faculty member is Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Ranran Fan, who teaches 4D art and photography in the Willamette University Art Department.
Rita Robillard (American, born 1944), "Queen of the Night I," from the series "Flower Serenade: A Gift of Time," 2021.
Rita Robillard: Time and Place
January 24 – March 25, 2023
Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery and the Maribeth Collins Lobby
Rita Robillard (American, born 1944) is a highly regarded Portland, Oregon mixed media artist who explores themes of history, nature, ecology and place in her work.
Cat Figurine (with incised wadjet-eye amulet), Ancient Egyptian, Late Period, 664-332 BCE, Bronze, cast; Gift of Fred W. Neumann, 2020.012.004
Hidden Histories: Artifacts of Daily Life in the Ancient World from the Fred W. Neumann Collection and Ancient Mediterranean Textiles from the Permanent Collection
January 3 – April 22, 2023
Study Gallery and Print Study Center
Organized by faculty curator and professor of art history and archaeology, Ann M. Nicgorski, the exhibition features a range of objects of daily life from Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, and Rome; as well as a range of ancient textiles mainly from late Roman to Late Antique Egypt.
David Boxley (Tsimshian, b. 1952), "Legend Adaox," 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.
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.
Joe Wilson (Coast Salish/Cowichan, b. 1967), "Black Bear," 2007
TRANSITION to PRINT: Selections from the George and Colleen Hoyt Collection of Northwest Coast Art
August 27 – December 3, 2022
Print Study Center
TRANSITION to PRINT: Selections from the George and Colleen Hoyt Collection of Northwest Coast Art features a range of contemporary prints by some of the foremost Native printmakers of the region, including Tony Hunt Sr., Reg Davidson, Francis Dick, and Andrea Wilbur-Sigo, among others.
David Roberts, "Cairo, Looking West" (detail), 1839