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Exhibitions & Programs

Current Exhibition

Anish Kapoor : Dissolving Margins, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

August 28 - December 5, 2026

Upcoming Exhibition

Layered Landscape: Memory and Ecological Witness

January 21 – April 17, 2027

Featured Artists: Melinda Braathen, Srijon Chowdhury, Guillermo Galindo, Heather Bird Harris, Sky Hopinka, Julia Oldham, Maia Cruz Palileo, Rebecca Padilla, and Sara Siestreem

Past Exhibitions

What Remains: 2026 BFA/MFA Exhibition

Mapping Familiar Territories,
Charting New Paths

Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize (2025)

Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

Beyond the Periphery: 2025 BFA/MFA Showcase

Just Playin' Around

Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize (2024)

Color Outside the Lines: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

Long Story Short: 2024 BFA/MFA Showcase

Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize (2023)

Two people in jeans and short-sleeve shirts push a mobile printing press on wheels across a busy urban intersection. The press is painting green with many decorative motifs, and the word "IMPRENTA" visible on the side

Mundos posibles / Possible Worlds

A painted portrait of a Chinese woman confidently looking ahead with a small black bird on her shoulder. The background is bright orange with abstract white leaves and circles. The brushwork is loose and fluid.

A Question of Hu: The Narrative Art of Hung Liu From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

the words "At This Time" and an enlarged "At" on a blurry, rippling black and white background.

At This Time: 2023 MFA/BFA Showcase

A corner of a gallery. On the wall are two framed canvases with loose, open-weave white textiles stretched across one and between two others. On a pedestal is a pair of shoes with motifs using the same textile. In the far corner of the image, a mannequin wears a dress with a bodice made from the same textile.

Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize (2022)

The downstairs gallery of JSMA at PSU, showing many of the works in the exhibition ranging from a video projection of the mechanized weaving process to the right, bright, colorful, textural weavings to the left, and in the center a large-scale black and white weaving depicting an industrial textile mill next to a river, textile machines, and imagery from strike protests and the labor movement.

A section of the downstairs gallery at JSMA at PSU. Visible are several still life paintings depicting various fruits, flowers, and glassware on tables draped with fabric painted in rich, vibrant detail. Two of the still lifes feature reproductions of famous historical landscape paintings. In the middle of the space is a pedestal with an ornate porcelain sculpture of a pyramid of multicolored fruits and flowers in a wide serving-style bowl decorated with sculpted and painted floral details with metallic gold accents. This bowl rests on a tall base with similar ornaments.

The Art of Food:
From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

Epilogue: 2022 MFA/BFA Showcase

A corner of a gallery featuring color photo portraits of transgender and gender noncomforming older adults posing proudly and confidently in various locations.

To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults

The upstairs gallery of JSMA at PSU. A super-oversized puffer jacket hangs from the ceiling. Each panel of the puffer is a different color in a palette of black, browns, beiges, and whites. To the right is a white cloud suspended by rope tied in the manner of a noose. The cloud is illuminated by red and blue tinted lights.

Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition

A corner of the gallery. On the left wall is the exhibition title with three large irregular shapes in blue, yellow, and pink. To the right is a large diptych of two pieces of handmade paper with a large floral design created by shading some parts of the paper dark. Each side of the diptych is a mirror image of the other, both in geometry and color.

Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize Exhibition (2021)

A closeup of two framed textiles in a grid of frames. The left one reads "I had a flashback of something that never existed" printed in red. The right features a radial, geometric design made by patchworking scraps of pink and blue fabric.

Louise Bourgeois: What is the Shape of This Problem

Viscous Time: 2021 BFA/MFA Exhibition

The upstairs gallery of JSMA at PSU, with a variety of colorful paintings on the walls. On a central pedestal is a sculpted coil of black wire resembling a topographic map.

Building Community, Past + Present

A black and white cutout of a hand overlapping the corner of a cutout of a bed. The hand is holding a smartphone showing a green screen with a hand-drawn envelope surrounded by a sunburst, as well as a lock icon.

Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize (2020)

Closeup of a painting of a Black man with a beard, wearing a red bowtie and a mauve jacket with lapels. In the background is a seascape with large sailing ships. In the distance, a plume of smoke rises from the horizon.

Arvie Smith: 2 Up and 2 Back II

A loosely-brushed but realistic painting of 8 prominent abolitionists from different periods of history, including John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Emily Dickinson, and Frederick Douglass.

Daniel Duford: John Brown's Vision on the Scaffold

AB 60: BFA Showcase 2020

White text displaying the exhibition title on top of a colorful painting of people painted at different scales and angles, overlapping each other.

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