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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Valentine’s Day
The Feast of St. Valentine’s Day has been celebrated in many different ways for well over a thousand years. No matter how you may feel about our contemporary version of […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: William H. Walker
Curiously, this photograph is one of only two in the Museum’s permanent collection that includes “New Year” in its title. Made by Portland-based photographer Will Walker, it depicts people selling […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Lewis W. Hine
I think of photographer Lewis Hine every Labor Day. He was deeply affected by the long hours and low pay he earned while working to help support his widowed mother […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Dan Powell
Drive-in theaters were a staple of American popular culture during the mid-twentieth century. According to the New York Film Academy, more than 4,000 drive-ins dotted the landscape during the 1950s […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Ansel Adams
Tonight’s waxing gibbous moon has me thinking about how folks love to photograph the moon, and how difficult it is to capture this celestial orb in a way that matches […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Marian Wood Kolisch
Education was a central component of Ansel Adams’s photographic practice. He established the fine art photography program at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1946, the first of its kind […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Bobby Abrahamson
Earlier this week, public-facing workers throughout Oregon became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. These are the folks who have kept shelves stocked, food prepared, systems running, buses moving, and packages […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Jonathan Calm
In the self-portrait Double Vision (Record), artist Jonathan Calm assumes the position of past and present-day landscape photographers—standing under a dark cloth, using a large-format view camera. He poses in […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Don Unrau
Don Unrau served as a U.S. Army Combat Medic in Vietnam. He made his first photographs during the war, and has concentrated his photographic attention on veterans, conflict, and the […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDail Art Moment: Jonathan Calm
“In 2016, Jonathan Calm, artist and Stanford University Assistant Professor of Photography, traveled through the American South by car. He documented many of the locations marked as ‘safe spaces’ in […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Zig Jackson
“While working on his MFA in photography at the San Francisco Art Institute during the 1990s, Zig Jackson turned the camera on himself. He wryly explored the ways that he, […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Lewis W. Hine
“This photograph, made nearly 1,240 feet above the busy streets of midtown Manhattan, depicts steelworkers assembling the Empire State Building’s mooring mast—the top of the skyscraper that was originally meant […]