Schneider Museum of Art

07/22/2026

We're honored to be featured in a thoughtful new Oregon ArtsWatch article that explores the Schneider Museum of Art's mission, impact, and future. The piece reflects what we strive to do every day: connect our community with compelling contemporary art, provide free access to world-class exhibitions, and create opportunities for learning, conversation, and discovery. It also shares the realities of sustaining a university art museum through the generous support of our members, donors, and community.

Thank you to Jim Flint and Oregon ArtsWatch for so thoughtfully sharing our story, and thank you to everyone who helps make the Schneider Museum of Art possible.

The museum at Southern Oregon University connects a small city to contemporary art’s wider conversations.

06/29/2026

What a celebration! 🎉🎨

Thank you to the 250+ community members who joined us for the Schneider Museum of Art's 40th Anniversary Free Family Day! From hands-on art activities and gallery adventures to anniversary cupcakes and tooting our own horns, and countless smiles, it was a day we'll never forget.

We're incredibly grateful to our volunteers, students, staff, and everyone who came out to celebrate 40 years of creativity, curiosity, and community with us.

📸 View the photo gallery here: https://sma.sou.edu/exh.../40th-anniversary-free-family-day/

Thank you for making our 40th anniversary celebration so special. Here's to the next 40 years of art, inspiration, and community!

📷 Photo credit: Ren Kasmadala

Celebrate four decades of inspiration at the Schneider Museum of Art’s landmark 40th Anniversary Free Family Day! We’re honoring forty years of creativity with an immersive afternoon of art-making and community. Whether you're exploring the galleries on a scavenger hunt, participating in hands-o...

04/20/2026

Join us on Tuesday, April 21 at 3 pm in the SOU Meese Auditorium (Art Building) for a Creative Industries Discussion with our 2026 SOU VAST (Visiting Artist & Scholar in Teaching) resident Omer Wasim.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Omer Wasim (b. 1988, Karachi, Pakistan) is an intermedial artist whose work bears witness to the relentless erasure, violence, and destruction of our times by engaging with disappeared and emergent ecologies, the spectres of postmemory, and the minutiae of daily life. Weaving in and out of the personal, as caught in the crosshairs of social and political upheavals, he gathers and transforms ephemeral, sonic, and more-than-human traces into works that resist state amnesia, historical erasure, and un-belonging in territories across South Asia. Wasim’s solo and collaborative projects have been shown at the National Museum of Qatar, the Yokohama Triennale, Sonsbeek 20→24, and the Dhaka Art Summit; at Jameel Arts Centre, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, and Centre A; and in artist-led and regional platforms, including Colomboscope, Khoj, the Cairo Video Festival, and the Karachi Biennale, among others. Wasim graduated from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in Sculpture in 2025.

ABOUT THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES DISCUSSION SERIES
The Creative Industries Discussion Series is a forum centered on distinguished artist lectures. Designed to bridge the gap between studio practice and professional reality, these sessions offer a rare, first-person look at the voices defining today’s visual landscape.

Each event is more than a presentation; it is an invitation to engage. Every artist lecture concludes with a moderated Q&A, fostering direct dialogue between the speakers and the community.

These sessions are free and open to the public, serving as a vital link between the Southern Oregon University campus and the professional creative industry.

DETAILS:
Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 3-4 pm
SOU Meese Auditorium – Art Building (next to the SMA)
555 Indiana Street | Ashland OR 97520
FREE, and open to the public | FREE Parking