One campus. Two museums. Free admission. The Museum of Natural and Cultural History and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art offer free admission during UO Ducks home game weekends throughout the 2018 football season. 

Tuesdays through Sundays at 2:00 p.m.

Enhance your visit to the Museum of Natural and Cultural History with a talk and exhibit tour! Perfect for solo visitors, couples, or small groups, 2PM Walk & Talks are included with the price of admission. Topics range from the geology of the Cascades to Oregon’s dynamic cultural heritage. Call 541-346-3024 to find out what we’re talking about today!   

Please come, visit our large scale, site-specific collaborative art installation by Relief Printmaking class. It comprised of over 400 woodcut prints. Take-away prints will be available from our "vending" machine for your donation to a local non-profit, McKenzie River Trust. We hope this project to bring awareness to a huge trash problems in the ocean effecting marine life. It relates to the current exhibit, "Plastic Entanglement" at JSMA.

 

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“Conveniently packaged for your wasteful consumption”

A site-specific, collaborative installation

ARTR 346 Relief Printmaking

 

Project Statement

Our collaborative installation is comprised of over 400 hand-carved woodcut prints depicting various items of trash such as plastic bottles, food packaging and wrappers, along with diverse sea creatures. Our intention is to bring awareness to our detrimental trash problem and its effect on marine life.

Our consumerism-driven society driven has made convenience our priority, but at what cost to Earth? Is it truly worth disrupting the delicate balance of the ecosystem? Our project addresses questions raised by the current exhibit, “Plastic Entanglement” at JSMA as well as a lecture by one of the selected artists, Dianna Cohen who leads a non-profit called Plastic Pollution Coalition.

Our "vending machine” appears to sell prints of beautiful sea creatures. However, what the viewer might get is one of the trash-themed prints, just as a fisherman might wind up with a chunk of garbage instead of catching any fish. According to Plastic Pollution Coalition, the oceans will contain more plastic per pound than fish by 2050. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of floating trash halfway between Hawaii and California, has now grown to more than 600,000 square miles; that's twice the size of Texas. We need to approach the problem with a sense of urgency to act now.

All the money deposited into the vending machine for the take-away prints will be donated to the local non-profit called McKenzie River Trust that focuses on environmental justice; they use 90% of all the money that they raise for land protection, land stewardship and public outreach. Clean protected river water running through conserved land with native species eventually reaches the ocean. Everything is connected.

Printmaking media has been a vehicle for social change and democracy. The methodology of producing multiples, particular to printing, has been widely utilized for spreading ideas and building community. As a class this term, we have been critically investigating how value is determined and what makes things worth sharing, telling and doing. This collaborative project stems from something that matters to us collectively.

 

Tiara Adams     Anna Baldwin     Maddie Banta     Izzy Cho                          Lily Cronn    Reid Ellingson    Amanda Fang   Cheyenne Jaques                   Wangqiang Lin    Allie McPheeters    Clancy O’Connor   Alex Perrin   Grace Peccia Stayner    Macon Sumpter    Anna Warnecke                 Hongyu Yu                                                   Instructor: Mika Aono Boyd

This holiday season, shop local and make a difference. Each purchase at Past and Presents, the museum store, directly supports education programs that inspire Oregonians all across the state. Join us on Small Business Saturday and enjoy hot cider and cookies while browsing our unique collection of gifts created by Northwest artists and authors. Admission to the store is always free. 

Stop by to destress with the Student Sustainability Center. Have a free cup of coffee and tea, or stop by to make a button.

Saturday, December 1 and Sunday, December 2
11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 
Science, technology, architecture, and art converge in a quest for resilience: What does it take to thrive amid a changing climate? Showcasing innovative designs—from mushroom-based building blocks to cardboard origami shelters—Survival Architecture blends ideas from around the world with scholarship at the University of Oregon, inspiring conversations that could change our approach to the future.

Join us for the exhibit's grand opening and enjoy refreshments, family-friendly engineering activities, and more—all included with regular admission. 

Admission is free for MNCH members and UO ID card holders. EBT card holders are admitted at a reduced rate through the Museums for All program. Not a yet member? Purchase or renew your family membership at a 20 percent discount throughout the grand opening weekend

This holiday season, shop local and make a difference with your holiday shopping! Each purchase at Past and Presents, the museum store, directly supports museum education programs that inspire Oregonians all across the state. 

Join us on Winter Wednesdays and enjoy hot cider and cookies while you shop for unique, handmade gifts at the museum store. Enjoy 20% discounts on non-consignment items including books by local authors, science kits for kids, Ice Age-inspired designs, and much more. Museum members get 30% discounts on their non-consignment purchases. Admission to the store is always free!

Quench your thirst—for knowledge and for beer—at Ideas on Tap, the Museum of Natural and Cultural History's monthly pub talk, now at Viking Braggot Co. on Willamette Street! 

This month, join Kaarin Knudson and Josh Bruce from the University of Oregon's College of Design for Surviving Change: Building Community Resilience with Sustainable Design. Explore the ecological, economic, and social uncertainties associated with life in a rapidly changing environment—and the opportunities we have to design effectively for change. 

The Museum of Natural and Cultural History offers free admission on the first Friday of the month. Investigate Oregon's amazing fossils and ecosystems, and delve into its cultural history—from the First Americans at Paisley Caves to the dynamic cultures of today's Tribes. 

You and your child are invited to learn and play at the museum during our monthly Little Wonders event! This month's, be an Astro-Explorer for a day as we travel through outer space with games, stories, and “alien” crafts.

Admission is free for MNCH members. Learn more at natural-history.uoregon.edu. Get your Little Wonders discount coupon, redeemable at Past and Presents, the museum store. 15 percent off for museum members, 10 percent off for the public.