The Craft Center Visiting Artist for Winter Term is glassblowing artist, Dan Friday. 

Dan Friday is a Skagit Valley–based artist and member of the Lummi Nation who has spent over 30 years working primarily in glass. His work draws heavily on Coast Salish imagery and cultural traditions, expressed through contemporary glass art. Friday has taught at numerous institutions and craft schools, founded the Native Youth Outreach Program at Pilchuck Glass School in 2017, and completed residencies at major museums and cultural centers worldwide. His work has earned multiple prestigious awards, appeared on Netflix’s Blown Away, and is held in museum and private collections internationally.

Exhibition On View: January 5-March 20 The Craft Center gallery is located on the 2nd floor of the Erb Memorial Union by the Adell Mcmillan gallery. Artist Talk & Reception: February 6, 12pm-1pm Join us at the Craft Center for an inspiring artist talk with Dan Friday. This event is free. Registration is required. Please register by visiting myemu.uoregon.edu. Glassblowing Demonstration: February 6, 1pm-4pm & February 7, 1pm-4pm Dan will demonstrate the techniques behind his glass sculptures, offering insight into the creative processes that shape his work, with two demo offerings available. Participants will also have the opportunity to engage in discussion about his art and studio practices. Free. Registration required at myemu.uoregon.edu.

The Craft Center is proud to exhibit: I Finally Finished It. See a variety of art forms from the diverse artistry of the Craft Center's staff, students, faculty and family.

Exhibit on display January 5 to March 12.

Reception January 13, 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Refreshments provided.

What can we learn from musicals, a beloved Saturday entertainment? The course explores musicals as a lens into history, a way artists in the past 100 years have grappled with the most profound challenges facing humanity in uplifting and resonant messages. Through works such as Oklahoma, Show Boat, West Side Story, Hair, Rent, Hamilton, The Color Purple, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, and Into the Woods—as well as your own favorite, we examine the way serious individual and social issues are captured in catchy and poignant lyrics, and lively dance numbers. We will see clips, watch entire musicals, read scripts and lyrics, and experience the oldest form of human knowledge, when voice and instruments were developed to tell each other what we know so that we can keep going, sadder and wiser, inspired, and hopeful.

Dr. Mossberg will also workshop with the class her own latest musical, a historical correction about John Muir and his unknown wife Louie Wanda, their transformational love story, giving a behind-the-scenes look at the process of creating a musical out of recorded history and one's own imagination.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Dr. Barbara Mossberg is a Professor of Practice at the UO Clark Honors College. Over the past forty years, Dr. Mossberg has published poetry and literary and interdisciplinary studies on leadership of ecology and the human spirit, creativity and identity, resilience and sustainability in the natural and social worlds, and learning. She teaches memoir for the Thoreau Society Write Connection, Pacific Grove Public Library, John Muir High School Alum, Wild Acorns, and other groups. Her most recent memoir won the Provost's Recognition Award from the University of Oregon.