Immerse yourself in the world of art through lectures presented by curators, artists, scholars, and museum staff. Free with museum admission unless otherwise noted.
JULY
First Saturday Public Tour
Saturday, July 4, 1:00 p.m.
Take a 45-minute tour of the museum led by a JSMA Exhibition Interpreter on the first Saturday of every month. Free with museum admission.
Lecture: Applying Words to Images: Using Tôkaidô Diaries To Read Tôkaidô Prints
Sandy Kita,Professor and Senior Scholar, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA
Wednesday, July 22, 6:00 p.m.
Dr. Sandy Kita, Professor and Senior Scholar, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA, compares the Tôkaidô Road travel diaries of Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei (1578-1650), the supposed founder of the art of Ukiyo-e, and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), famous for his prints of the Tôkaidô. The talk also addresses the larger questions of why creative print masters like Jun’ichirô Sekino (1914-1988) claimed to break with the tradition of Ukiyo-e while referencing it in their art, collecting it, and belonging to societies for its study. Dr Kita will also explore how pioneering scholars of Ukiyo-e connected this art to earlier traditions of painting in the court as well as creating the basis for Ukiyo-e as an unprecedented, unparalleled, and unique art form.
AUGUST
First Saturday Public Tour
Saturday, August 1, 1:00 p.m.
Take a 45-minute tour of the museum led by a JSMA Exhibition Interpreter on the first Saturday of every month. Free with museum admission.
Artist’s Talk: Bicycling Japan’s Historic Tokaido
Saturday, August 8, 1:00 p.m.
In 1984, Walt Padgett bicycled the route of the ancient Tokaido Road in search of the actual places and landscapes depicted in the famous woodblock prints by Hiroshige and Jun’ichirô Sekino, the “53 Stations of the Tokaido.” In this slide lecture, he will talk about the old and modern Tokaidos, show comparisons between the two great woodblock artists’ works and the subjects they chose to depict, and share his own adventures of the road.
SEPTEMBER
First Saturday Public Tour
Saturday, September 5, 1:00 p.m.
Take a 45-minute tour of the museum led by a JSMA Exhibition Interpreter on the first Saturday of every month. Free with museum admission.
Lecture: “J.M.W. Turner and The Sister Arts of Painting and Poetry”
Wednesday, September 30, 6:00 p.m.
Kathleen Nicholson, UO Professor of Art History, will place English Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner’s painting, “Pope’s Villa at Twickenham” within the larger context of the artist’s understanding of the interrelations between verbal and visual expression in the Romantic era. When he publicly exhibited his paintings at the annual Royal Academy exhibitions Turner often included either his own verse or quotations from a range of British poets in the catalogue. The lecture will explore how he envisioned their interaction in the viewer’s mind.