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Jordan Schnitzer Museum
opens Japanese art exhibit
Gallery unveils prints
from early 18th and late
19th century Japan
BY EMILY SMITH
NEWS REPORTER
The University’s Jordan Schnitzer
Museum of Art recently introduced
its fall 2005 exhibition, “Inside the
Floating World: Japanese Prints
from the Lenoir C. Wright Collec
tion,” which will be on display
through Jan. 8, 2006. Admission to
the museum is free for University
students, faculty and staff.
The exhibit features colored wood
block prints from the early 18th
through late 19th centuries that de
pict the urban culture of Edo, Japan,
at the time. The artistic movement of
this period is known as ukiyo-e,
meaning “pictures of the floating
world,” which references with the
world of escapism and pleasure char
acterized by the Kabuki theater and
the Yoshiwara, a licensed brothel dis
trict on the outskirts of Edo.
The prints range from simple and
faded to intricate and vibrant, depict
ing different scenes from Japanese
plays, landscapes of Mt. Fuji and pic
tures of Japanese women.
The Kabuki theater often told stories
of samurai vendettas, ill-fated ro
mances, slapstick comedies and tragic
love-suicides. Many of the prints show
dressing-room antics and climactic
scenes from the performances.
Bijinga, pictures of women, was
also a popular theme of the time and
makes up a large part of the exhibit.
Artists made prints of women from
all different classes and professions.
Geishas, who were entertainers
and sometimes prostitutes, and
courtesans, who were strictly prosti
tutes, both mostly appear adorned in
traditional kimonos.
In addition to the 100 prints the or
ganizers and museum curators select
ed as representational of the major
themes explored by Japanese artists
200 to 300 years ago, is a
Courtesy
This ukiyo-e woodblock print is on display at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
display called “Ukiyo-e Outside In:
Western Impressions of the Floating
World.” This display features artists
from the West who also used color
woodblock printing about a century
later as a medium for Japanese
portraits and scenes.
Sue Reed and her daughter, Uni
versity alumna Emily Reed, came
from Bandon to see the museum be
cause it was closed while Emily
attended the University.
“It’s beautiful,” Sue Reed said. “It’s
neat to see so many (Japanese wood
block prints), and they’re all so old.”
The exhibit was organized by the
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Universi
ty of North Carolina at Greensboro,
and curated by Allen Hockley, Dart
mouth College.
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OSPIRG proposes project to
support progressive candidates
The Oregon Bus Project involves students
and politicians in helping with campaigns
BY LEAH JOHNSTON
FREELANCE REPORTER
Oregon Bus Project founder
Jefferson Smith on Thursday urged
attendees of the first OSPIRG
meeting of the academic year to
make their voices heard by partici
pating in politics.
The Bus Project is a movement
that encourages students and politi
cians traveling around Oregon to
support progressive candidates.
Smith, a native Oregonian and Har
vard Law School graduate, said he
started the project to get young peo
ple involved in politics and to help
elect progressive candidates through
grass-roots campaigning — essential
ly, knocking on doors.
“It is a tremendous generation
with the most access to information
than any other in history,” Smith
said. “Hopefully the means of info
won’t be avenues to video games but
avenues to democracy.”
OSPIRG’s leaders echoed
Smith’s remarks.
“Your energy is the energy that
will help our country change,” said
Amber Dawn Hallet, the University’s
campus organizer for the student
chapter of the Oregon State Public
Interest Research Group.
OSPIRG’s agenda for the year in
cludes the Affordable Textbooks
campaign, the Protect the Oregon
Coast campaign and the Hunger and
Homelessness campaign.
“We are trying to communicate
with professors that we don’t want
bundled books, and to keep the old
editions of books ... We are hoping
the professors will communicate this
to the publishers,” said OSPIRG in
tern Jenny Manning, who is working
on the textbooks campaign.
OSPIRG hopes to get students to
gether in one room at the end of the
term to buy and sell their books,
which means students will get more
money back and not have to pay as
much, Manning said.
OSPIRG’s Protect the Oregon
Coast campaign is designed to com
bat plans to explore for oil and natu
ral gas off the Oregon coast.
The Hunger and Homelessness
campaign will provide help for com
munity members who are homeless.
Volunteers will conduct surveys in
an attempt to study the cause of
homelessness, said Hailee Newman,
OSPIRG chairwoman for the
University chapter.
Students attending the meeting
said they were inspired by the num
ber of local and world issues OSPIRG
is tackling, and many were motivat
ed to volunteer in the future.
“Volunteerism is so important,”
University student Luis Garcia said.
“If you look back 40 years, most so
cial movements have been started by
young people. ”
Approximately 70 students attend
ed the meeting at the University.
“Smith was a big draw for the
night,” Manning said.
OSPIRG meets Mondays at 7 p.m.
at the Survival Center in the EMU.
For more information contact Hailee
Newman at 541-619-9388.