Museum Rack Card Fall 2018

MUSEUM INFORMATION

FRED JONES JR. MUSEUM OF ART

ADMISSION Admission is always FREE, thanks to the generous support of the University of Oklahoma 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–Wednesday Thursday Friday–Saturday Sunday

10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

1 to 5 p.m.

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.

Closed Monday and university holidays.

MUSE: THE MUSEUM STORE Located just within the front doors of the museum is a wonderful store that 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 or call (405) 325-5017.

Please visit the museum website or call (405) 325-4938 for more information before parking at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.

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GREEN SPACE

BOYD ST. FRED JONES JR. MUSEUM OF ART

FINE ARTS CENTER RUPEL J. JONES THEATRE

ELM AVENUE PAID PARKING FACILITY

OU SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS

REYNOLDS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

NORTH OVAL

CATLETT MUSIC CENTER

ACCOMMODATIONS/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY For accommodations, please call Visitor Services at (405) 325-4938. The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. www.ou.edu/eoo FRED JONES JR. MUSEUM OF ART The University of Oklahoma 555 Elm Ave., Norman, OK 73019-3003 (405) 325-4938 fjjma.ou.edu | @fjjma

GREEN SPACE

UNIVERSITY BLVD.

ELM AVE.

COLLEGE AVE.

SUPPORT THE MUSEUM Be a patron of the arts! Museum members enjoy admission to exclusive events, a 20% discount at Muse, as well as discounts on other special programs, trips, and more. For more information, visit ou.edu/fjjmamembers or call (405) 325-5990.

The university offers limited complimentary parking for museum visitors in the east side of the lot across Boyd Street. Reference the map below for additional information.

Visitor Parking

Free when available

$1/hr - Meters

$1/hr Parking PHYSICAL SCIENCE CENTER

OU Faculty, Staff, & Student Parking Loading Zone

FALL 2018 EXHIBITIONS

STILL LOOKING: THE PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION OF CAROL BEESLEY HENNAGIN JUNE 12–DEC. 30, 2018

TICKET TO RIDE: ARTISTS, DESIGNERS, AND WESTERN RAILWAYS OCT. 5 –DEC. 30, 2018

Ellen and Richard L. Sandor Photography Gallery

Nancy Johnston Records Gallery

Carol Beesley Hennagin’s love for photography began during her education at the University of California, Los Angeles. For more than 35 years, she has collected works by many of the best-known photographers of the 20th century and, in 1988, Beesley and her late husband, Michael Hennagin, began donating portions of their collection to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Still Looking offers a survey of Beesley’s collecting practices and includes photographs by established artists such as Edward Weston and Frederick Sommer, as well as lesser-known figures. The exhibit also features promised gifts of Byron Wood’s photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe.

Prior to the widespread availability of the automobile, artists experienced and explored the American West by train. By 1930, hundreds of artists and illustrators had enjoyed the patronage of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe; Northern Pacific; Southern Pacific, Great Northern; Canadian Pacific; Mexican Central; and other Western lines. Celebrated image makers of the American West, including Thomas Moran and Maynard Dixon, and less well known designers and painters alike, courted Western railways for transportation, for sales, and for the international promotion of their work and interests. At the same time, rail companies sought naturalistic images of Western subjects that could be tdisplayed in ticket offices and hotels, in traveling exhibitions, and reproduced on advertising materials to promote Western travel on their lines. This exhibition features paintings, studies, posters, and graphics that emerged from the parallel relationships between artists and commercial designers with Western rail companies between the late 1880s and early 1930s, which were key decades in passenger travel.

SPACE BURIAL JAN. 26–SEPT. 9, 2018 Ellen and Richard L. Sandor Gallery In this installation by contemporary artist Jesse Small, slivers representing the 86-foot-diameter satellite dishes from the Very Large Array in New Mexico intersect the gallery space, forming pattern-infused canopies. Derived from an image of the cosmic microwave background (the oldest light that we can see), shadows of the pattern broadcast throughout the space, alluding to the array as an agent of travel through time and space.

SEEDS OF BEING JUNE 12–DEC. 30, 2018 Clements Family/Crawley/Bialac Galleries As carriers of life from one generation to the next, seeds provide the possibility of growth and endurance, but they do not achieve this on their own. Just as seeds require nourishment to flourish, art needs to be engaged by the viewer in order to thrive. While seeds themselves originate from a specific point in time—the moment they were harvested—they also signify the past, present, and future folded together, as the seeds from a past crop are stored in the present to be used for the future. Seeds of Being examines various ways these artistic seeds benefit Indigenous groups in North America through the artists’ abilities to nurture, adapt, and envision their communities’ ongoing well-being. Curated by students enrolled in the Native American Art & Museum Studies Seminar, made possible by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

DAREN KENDALL: THRESHOLD WITH ME OCT. 16–DEC. 30, 2018 Ellen and Richard L. Sandor Gallery What can be learned from a passage, a simple movement from point A to B, from one place to another? Threshold with Me invites viewers to mark their passage through seven sculptural thresholds based on the seven terraces of Dante’s purgatory.

Representing moments of both suffering and spiritual growth, Daren Kendall’s work explores universal themes of love and loss with an ultimate aim toward the attainment of Paradise as reconnection and reconciliation.

Visit our website for full image credits at fjjma.ou.edu.