Art History: JSMA Exhibitions (new!)

Current Exhibition -- Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt

Provided below is the reading list for JSMA at PSU’s exhibition Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt, on view from August 26 - December 6, 2025 featuring the work of multimedia artist Marie Watt. As a member of the Seneca Nation (one of six Indigenous nations that form the Haudenosaunee Confederacy) with German-Scots ancestry, she tells stories that draw from both Native and non-Native traditions: Greco-Roman myth, pop music and Pop art, Indigenous oral narratives, Star Wars and Star Trek. Since this exhibition debuted in 2022, Marie Watt’s repertoire of stories has continued to expand and grow. In our presentation of the exhibition at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, we have the privilege of including new work Watt has created over the past three years, including Forest Shifts Light (Sequoia, Crest, Canopy) 2025, a jingle cloud commissioned for this presentation. 

As part of the exhibition programming, we are scheduling a Storytime at the PSU Farmers Market and the museum led by Portland based artist, Latoya Lovely, on the first Saturday of the month, September through November (Market: 9/6 & 10/4; Museum: 11/1). This program is geared towards pre-K through early elementary students.

In addition to our children and family programming, JSMA at PSU is also hosting a conversation and dance performance with Marie Watt, Acosia Red Elk, and Jordan D. Schnitzer in Lincoln Hall on Thursday, September 18th from 4:00-5:00.

More information regarding the exhibition and programming can be found on our website: www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/

Reading List