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Fact Sheet: About the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon
Location: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, 1430 Johnson Lane, Eugene, Ore.
Photos: High-resolution photos are available for download on our website, http://uoma.uoregon.edu/media.
Size: 63,180 square feet total; 38,154 square feet of new construction
Cost: $14.2 million
Funding: The State of Oregon awarded $6.36 million in state-serviced bonds to the $14.2 million renovation and expansion project. These funds were matched, beyond the requirement, through a combination of grants, estate gifts and contributions from more than 750 individual donors.
Design Architect: Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge, Inc., Chicago, Ill.
Architect of Record: SRG Partnership, Inc., Portland, Ore.
General Contractor: Wildish Building Co., Eugene, Ore.
Timeline:
-Ground breaking ceremony, Sept. 10, 2002
-Capping ceremony, July 24, 2003
-Open House, May 8, 2004
-Collection and staff move back inside the building, August 2004
-Furnish the interiors and install the galleries, Fall 2004
-Grand reopening, Jan. 23, 2005
Building Features: Collections galleries featuring American, European, Korean, Chinese and Japanese art
-Changing Exhibitions Gallery totaling nearly 4,000 square feet
-Educational suite, containing an interactive discovery gallery, art studio and lecture hall
-New Marché Museum Café and enlarged Museum Store
-Reception hall, available for public rental
-Transformed infrastructure enabling the museum to host major traveling exhibitions
-Fully accessible museum that is Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-compliant
Schedule for First-Year Changing Exhibitions:
-"Andy Warhol's Dream America: Screenprints from the Jordan
Schnitzer Family Foundation," Jan. 23-May 1, 2005
-"University of Oregon Master of Fine Arts Exhibition," May 13-
June 26, 2005
-"American Photographers: Advocates for the Land," July 8-
Sept. 18, 2005
-"Inside the Floating World: Japanese Prints from the Lenoir C. Wright Collection," Oct. 7, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006
Also On View: "Modern and Contemporary Art in America," Schnitzer Gallery
-"European Landscape Paintings," European Gallery
-"Traditions of Korean Painting," Huh Wing and Jin Joo Gallery
-"Holy Icons of Russia," McKenzie Gallery
-"The Art of Death in China," MacKinnon Gallery
-"Japanese Prints by Junichiro Sekino," Preble/Murphy Gallery
-"Works on Paper from the Elizabeth Butler Estate," Gordon Gilkey Research Center
-"Colorful Lanterns at Shangyuan," Focus Gallery
-"Discover Art! Discover People!," Interactive Discovery Gallery
Museum Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday
Marché Museum /Museum Store Hours: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday
9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. extended Wednesday hours 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and SundayAdmissions: Adults, $5; Seniors (62 and older) and students (high school and non-UO college with ID), $3. Free to museum members, UO students, UO faculty and staff members, and children 13 and under. Free general admission to everyone the first Friday of each month.
MusEvenings!: Extended hours are offered from 5 to 8 p.m. each Wednesday and frequently feature lectures, gallery talks and music. Visitors "pay as you wish."
Contact: Katie Sproles, (541) 346-0942, ksproles@uoregon.edu