The University of Oklahoma
FJJMA
Museu m I n fo r m ation Admission Admission is always FREE, thanks to the generous support of the OU Office of the President and the OU Athletics Department! Group tours are available by calling (405) 325-1660 at least two weeks in advance. Hours Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; closed Monday and university holidays. Muse - The Museum Store Located just within the front doors of the museum is a wonderful store which houses a vast array of gift items for any or no occasion! We invite you to visit the store during the museum’s regular operating hours. Support the Museum Be a patron of the arts! Museum members enjoy admission to exclusive events, a 20% discount at Muse, the museum store, as well as discounts on other special programs, trips, and more. For more information, visit ou.edu/fjjmamembers or call (405) 325-2297.
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
Directions from I-35 To reach the museum from I-35, take Norman exit 109 to Main Street east toward downtown. Turn right on University Boulevard and right again on Boyd Street. The museum is located at 555 Elm Ave., on the southeast corner of Boyd Street and Elm Avenue. Parking The museum now offers expanded complementary parking during normal museum operating hours, Tuesday through Friday, WITH A VISITOR PERMIT. Permits are not required on weekends. Please visit the museum website or call (405) 325-4938 for more information before parking at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Please review the following map for visual assistance.
Disability Access/Equal Opportunity For accommodations on the basis of disability, please call the museum at (405) 325-4938. The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. Visit www.ou.edu/eoo for more info. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art The University of Oklahoma 555 Elm Ave. Norman, OK 73019-3003 (405) 325-4938 www.fjjma.ou.edu
10,000 copies of this calendar have been printed at no cost to the taxpayers of the State of Oklahoma.
FALL 2015
Distinguished Visiting Artist:
James Surls Through January 17, 2016 Ellen and Richard L. Sandor Photography Gallery
September 5 – December 6, 2015 Lissa and Cy Wagner Gallery
October 1, 2015 – January 3, 2016 Nancy Johnston Records Gallery
Enter the Matrix: Indigenous Printmakers joins work from the museum’s permanent collection with work on loan from private collections such as Crow’s Shadow Institute (Oregon), Melanie Yazzie (Colorado), and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. The exhibition explores how printmaking has become a matrix for cultural and artistic exchange, critical sites of engagement, and key figures. In recent decades, printmaking has become a medium facilitating global cultural exchange for indigenous artists. Historically, for tribal communities, paper has been used as a weapon of cultural dominance, manifesting dispossession of lands and forced cultural assimilation. For indigenous artists, using paper as a medium for artistic expression manifests paper as a tool for self-determination, fosters dialogue about culture and identity, and contributes to cultural survival.
Immortales: The Hall of Emperors of the Capitoline Museums, Rome brings to the United States for the first time a selection of 20 busts from the collection of the world’s oldest museum, the Capitoline in Rome. The exhibition offers a survey of Roman portraiture from the age of Augustus (1st century, B.C.) to the late Roman Empire (5th century, A.D.). Sculpted busts of emperors, empresses, and patricians reveal how portraits helped craft private and public images of distinguished individuals for ancient Roman audiences as well as for posterity. This exhibition is made possible by the generous support of Enel Green Power North America.
The Jerome M. Westheimer, Sr. and Wanda Otey Westheimer Distinguished Visiting Artist Chair: James Surls
Wendy Red Star (U.S., Crow; b. 1981) Enit, 2010 Lithograph, 22 3/8 x 30 in. Image provided by Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, courtesy of the artist (c) 2015
Nature figures prominently in the work of sculptor James Surls. Over the course of four decades, he has developed evocative, hybrid forms in wood, steel, and bronze inspired by flowers, the human body, and rock formations. His recent work explores his previous inspirations as well as the microcosmic worlds of neurons and molecules. Drawn from recent drawings and sculptures, this exhibition showcases Surls’ intriguing investigation of the natural world. Surls serves as the fifth guest artist in the University of Oklahoma’s Jerome M. Westheimer, Sr. and Wanda Otey Westheimer Distinguished Visiting Artist Chair program.
Lucius Verus, 160 /170 A.D. Lunense Marble
Visit our website for a full list of programs related to these exhibitions.
On display through September 6, 2015 Nancy Johnston Records Gallery Artist Oscar Brousse Jacobson arrived at the University of Oklahoma in 1915, and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art commemorates the centennial of his appointment at OU with a retrospective of his influential career. Jacobson completed in excess of 600 works of art during his fifty-year career and looked to the landscapes of Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma for inspiration. During his tenure at OU, he oversaw tremendous growth in the School of Art, helped to create the first art museum on campus in 1936, and promoted the visual arts in the Southwest, especially the work of Native American fine artists. The exhibition includes over 50 works by Jacobson and explores the vital role he played in encouraging the visual arts in the region.
Oscar Brousse Jacobson (U.S., b. Sweden, 1882-1966) In the Navajo Country, 1938 Oil on canvas, 20 x 26 in. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, Norman; 1987
James Surls (U.S., b.1943) Walking Through the Thorn Vine, 2014 Bronze and stainless steel 135 x 133 x 64 in. On loan from the artist
Distinguished Visiting Artist:
James Surls Through January 17, 2016 Ellen and Richard L. Sandor Photography Gallery
September 5 – December 6, 2015 Lissa and Cy Wagner Gallery
October 1, 2015 – January 3, 2016 Nancy Johnston Records Gallery
Enter the Matrix: Indigenous Printmakers joins work from the museum’s permanent collection with work on loan from private collections such as Crow’s Shadow Institute (Oregon), Melanie Yazzie (Colorado), and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. The exhibition explores how printmaking has become a matrix for cultural and artistic exchange, critical sites of engagement, and key figures. In recent decades, printmaking has become a medium facilitating global cultural exchange for indigenous artists. Historically, for tribal communities, paper has been used as a weapon of cultural dominance, manifesting dispossession of lands and forced cultural assimilation. For indigenous artists, using paper as a medium for artistic expression manifests paper as a tool for self-determination, fosters dialogue about culture and identity, and contributes to cultural survival.
Immortales: The Hall of Emperors of the Capitoline Museums, Rome brings to the United States for the first time a selection of 20 busts from the collection of the world’s oldest museum, the Capitoline in Rome. The exhibition offers a survey of Roman portraiture from the age of Augustus (1st century, B.C.) to the late Roman Empire (5th century, A.D.). Sculpted busts of emperors, empresses, and patricians reveal how portraits helped craft private and public images of distinguished individuals for ancient Roman audiences as well as for posterity. This exhibition is made possible by the generous support of Enel Green Power North America.
The Jerome M. Westheimer, Sr. and Wanda Otey Westheimer Distinguished Visiting Artist Chair: James Surls
Wendy Red Star (U.S., Crow; b. 1981) Enit, 2010 Lithograph, 22 3/8 x 30 in. Image provided by Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, courtesy of the artist (c) 2015
Nature figures prominently in the work of sculptor James Surls. Over the course of four decades, he has developed evocative, hybrid forms in wood, steel, and bronze inspired by flowers, the human body, and rock formations. His recent work explores his previous inspirations as well as the microcosmic worlds of neurons and molecules. Drawn from recent drawings and sculptures, this exhibition showcases Surls’ intriguing investigation of the natural world. Surls serves as the fifth guest artist in the University of Oklahoma’s Jerome M. Westheimer, Sr. and Wanda Otey Westheimer Distinguished Visiting Artist Chair program.
Lucius Verus, 160 /170 A.D. Lunense Marble
Visit our website for a full list of programs related to these exhibitions.
On display through September 6, 2015 Nancy Johnston Records Gallery Artist Oscar Brousse Jacobson arrived at the University of Oklahoma in 1915, and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art commemorates the centennial of his appointment at OU with a retrospective of his influential career. Jacobson completed in excess of 600 works of art during his fifty-year career and looked to the landscapes of Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma for inspiration. During his tenure at OU, he oversaw tremendous growth in the School of Art, helped to create the first art museum on campus in 1936, and promoted the visual arts in the Southwest, especially the work of Native American fine artists. The exhibition includes over 50 works by Jacobson and explores the vital role he played in encouraging the visual arts in the region.
Oscar Brousse Jacobson (U.S., b. Sweden, 1882-1966) In the Navajo Country, 1938 Oil on canvas, 20 x 26 in. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, Norman; 1987
James Surls (U.S., b.1943) Walking Through the Thorn Vine, 2014 Bronze and stainless steel 135 x 133 x 64 in. On loan from the artist
Distinguished Visiting Artist:
James Surls Through January 17, 2016 Ellen and Richard L. Sandor Photography Gallery
September 5 – December 6, 2015 Lissa and Cy Wagner Gallery
October 1, 2015 – January 3, 2016 Nancy Johnston Records Gallery
Enter the Matrix: Indigenous Printmakers joins work from the museum’s permanent collection with work on loan from private collections such as Crow’s Shadow Institute (Oregon), Melanie Yazzie (Colorado), and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. The exhibition explores how printmaking has become a matrix for cultural and artistic exchange, critical sites of engagement, and key figures. In recent decades, printmaking has become a medium facilitating global cultural exchange for indigenous artists. Historically, for tribal communities, paper has been used as a weapon of cultural dominance, manifesting dispossession of lands and forced cultural assimilation. For indigenous artists, using paper as a medium for artistic expression manifests paper as a tool for self-determination, fosters dialogue about culture and identity, and contributes to cultural survival.
Immortales: The Hall of Emperors of the Capitoline Museums, Rome brings to the United States for the first time a selection of 20 busts from the collection of the world’s oldest museum, the Capitoline in Rome. The exhibition offers a survey of Roman portraiture from the age of Augustus (1st century, B.C.) to the late Roman Empire (5th century, A.D.). Sculpted busts of emperors, empresses, and patricians reveal how portraits helped craft private and public images of distinguished individuals for ancient Roman audiences as well as for posterity. This exhibition is made possible by the generous support of Enel Green Power North America.
The Jerome M. Westheimer, Sr. and Wanda Otey Westheimer Distinguished Visiting Artist Chair: James Surls
Wendy Red Star (U.S., Crow; b. 1981) Enit, 2010 Lithograph, 22 3/8 x 30 in. Image provided by Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, courtesy of the artist (c) 2015
Nature figures prominently in the work of sculptor James Surls. Over the course of four decades, he has developed evocative, hybrid forms in wood, steel, and bronze inspired by flowers, the human body, and rock formations. His recent work explores his previous inspirations as well as the microcosmic worlds of neurons and molecules. Drawn from recent drawings and sculptures, this exhibition showcases Surls’ intriguing investigation of the natural world. Surls serves as the fifth guest artist in the University of Oklahoma’s Jerome M. Westheimer, Sr. and Wanda Otey Westheimer Distinguished Visiting Artist Chair program.
Lucius Verus, 160 /170 A.D. Lunense Marble
Visit our website for a full list of programs related to these exhibitions.
On display through September 6, 2015 Nancy Johnston Records Gallery Artist Oscar Brousse Jacobson arrived at the University of Oklahoma in 1915, and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art commemorates the centennial of his appointment at OU with a retrospective of his influential career. Jacobson completed in excess of 600 works of art during his fifty-year career and looked to the landscapes of Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma for inspiration. During his tenure at OU, he oversaw tremendous growth in the School of Art, helped to create the first art museum on campus in 1936, and promoted the visual arts in the Southwest, especially the work of Native American fine artists. The exhibition includes over 50 works by Jacobson and explores the vital role he played in encouraging the visual arts in the region.
Oscar Brousse Jacobson (U.S., b. Sweden, 1882-1966) In the Navajo Country, 1938 Oil on canvas, 20 x 26 in. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, Norman; 1987
James Surls (U.S., b.1943) Walking Through the Thorn Vine, 2014 Bronze and stainless steel 135 x 133 x 64 in. On loan from the artist
The University of Oklahoma
FJJMA
Museu m I n fo r m ation Admission Admission is always FREE, thanks to the generous support of the OU Office of the President and the OU Athletics Department! Group tours are available by calling (405) 325-1660 at least two weeks in advance. Hours Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; closed Monday and university holidays. Muse - The Museum Store Located just within the front doors of the museum is a wonderful store which houses a vast array of gift items for any or no occasion! We invite you to visit the store during the museum’s regular operating hours. Support the Museum Be a patron of the arts! Museum members enjoy admission to exclusive events, a 20% discount at Muse, the museum store, as well as discounts on other special programs, trips, and more. For more information, visit ou.edu/fjjmamembers or call (405) 325-2297.
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
Directions from I-35 To reach the museum from I-35, take Norman exit 109 to Main Street east toward downtown. Turn right on University Boulevard and right again on Boyd Street. The museum is located at 555 Elm Ave., on the southeast corner of Boyd Street and Elm Avenue. Parking The museum now offers expanded complementary parking during normal museum operating hours, Tuesday through Friday, WITH A VISITOR PERMIT. Permits are not required on weekends. Please visit the museum website or call (405) 325-4938 for more information before parking at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Please review the following map for visual assistance.
Disability Access/Equal Opportunity For accommodations on the basis of disability, please call the museum at (405) 325-4938. The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. Visit www.ou.edu/eoo for more info. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art The University of Oklahoma 555 Elm Ave. Norman, OK 73019-3003 (405) 325-4938 www.fjjma.ou.edu
10,000 copies of this calendar have been printed at no cost to the taxpayers of the State of Oklahoma.
FALL 2015
The University of Oklahoma
FJJMA
Museu m I n fo r m ation Admission Admission is always FREE, thanks to the generous support of the OU Office of the President and the OU Athletics Department! Group tours are available by calling (405) 325-1660 at least two weeks in advance. Hours Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; closed Monday and university holidays. Muse - The Museum Store Located just within the front doors of the museum is a wonderful store which houses a vast array of gift items for any or no occasion! We invite you to visit the store during the museum’s regular operating hours. Support the Museum Be a patron of the arts! Museum members enjoy admission to exclusive events, a 20% discount at Muse, the museum store, as well as discounts on other special programs, trips, and more. For more information, visit ou.edu/fjjmamembers or call (405) 325-2297.
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
Directions from I-35 To reach the museum from I-35, take Norman exit 109 to Main Street east toward downtown. Turn right on University Boulevard and right again on Boyd Street. The museum is located at 555 Elm Ave., on the southeast corner of Boyd Street and Elm Avenue. Parking The museum now offers expanded complementary parking during normal museum operating hours, Tuesday through Friday, WITH A VISITOR PERMIT. Permits are not required on weekends. Please visit the museum website or call (405) 325-4938 for more information before parking at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Please review the following map for visual assistance.
Disability Access/Equal Opportunity For accommodations on the basis of disability, please call the museum at (405) 325-4938. The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. Visit www.ou.edu/eoo for more info. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art The University of Oklahoma 555 Elm Ave. Norman, OK 73019-3003 (405) 325-4938 www.fjjma.ou.edu
10,000 copies of this calendar have been printed at no cost to the taxpayers of the State of Oklahoma.
FALL 2015