EUGENE–In conjunction with the University of Oregon Museum of Art’s soon-to-open exhibition "C.S. Price: Landscape, Image, Spirit," the museum has invited six nationally known curators and artists to participate on Saturday, Nov. 14, in a public symposium on "Exploring C.S. Price."

The symposium will be held from 8:30 a.m.—3 p.m. in Room 177 of Lawrence Hall, 1190 Franklin Blvd. on the UO campus. The exhibition, a related showing of works by other Northwest painters and an interactive discovery gallery focusing on the elements of art and processes used by Price, will open Oct. 31 and continue through Jan. 3, 1999, at the Museum of Art, 1430 Johnson Lane.

Presenters during the morning session on Nov. 14–three curators from across the country–will address a broad range of topics relating to the life of Price, one of the Northwest’s first modernist painters who lived and worked in Oregon until his death in 1950. They will examine the development and influence of Price the artist, Price and issues of Northwest Regionalism, and Price in the context of Modernism and American Abstract Expressionism.

Scheduled morning panelists are:

• Roger Saydack, guest curator of the exhibition at the UO art museum and the leading authority on C.S. Price, who will identify the tenets of modernism that were important for Price, explaining why these ideas produced such radical changes in his art and how they affected his life;

• Barbara Johns, chief curator at the Tacoma Art Museum, who will present "Modernist in Portland," discussing Price and his Modernistic experience in the Northwest; and

• William Robinson, curator of paintings at the Cleveland Art Museum, who will present "Mystics, Romantics and Self-Invented Modernists: Fictions and Fables of American Cultural Nationalism."

In the afternoon, three internationally acclaimed artists will discuss their work and share impressions of Price. Set to offer their artist’s perspective are:

• Terry St. John, a nationally prominent San Francisco Bay Area artist and former curator of the Oakland Museum of California, who will speak about his artistic process and discuss how he was introduced to Price’s work by the landscape painter Louis Siegriest, an artist who knew Price in the 1920s;

• Lucinda Parker, a nationally known artist and associate professor of art at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, who will show slides of her work, recall seeing Price’s work while she was an art student in the 1960s, and discuss contemporaries of Price such as Louis Bunce, Charles Heaney and Carl and Hilda Morris; and

• Nathan Oliveira, an internationally acclaimed artist and Bay Area figurative painter, who will show slides of his work and discuss his impressions of Price.

The symposium will end with a round-table discussion among the artists, moderated by Saydack, on the 32 paintings by Price included in the UO Museum of Art exhibition. Audience participation will be encouraged.

Cost of the event will be $10 for museum members, free for university students and $15 for non-members and the general public. Preregistration by Nov. 1 is advised through the UO Museum of Art; walk-in attendees will be accepted only if space allows.

For a registration form and more information, call Lisa Abia-Smith, UO Museum of Art director of educational outreach, (541) 346-0966. To learn more about current museum exhibitions and programs, call 346-3027 or visit the UO Museum of Art’s Internet website at http://uoma.uoregon.edu.

Accessible to people with disabilities, the UO Museum of Art is open from noon to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, and from noon to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. Suggested admission is $3, except on Wednesdays when the MusEvenings! program offers programs and free extended viewing hours from 5—8 p.m. Museum members, students, UO employees and children are admitted free.

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