Item B: City Council Goal Update-Arts and Outdoors

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4) The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art - an outstanding visual arts venue The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of Oregon campus is a beautiful historic venue that offers access to the important Murray Wanter Collection of Oriental Art and as well as leading edge exhibitions for all ages. The museum was established in 1933 to display the Murray Wanter Collection bequeathed in 1921 by his wife. With a gift from Jordan Schnitzer, the venue was expanded and the collection updated. In 2005 the museum re-opened following a significant expansion and modernization project. The museum of art building remains one of the most distinctive architectural structures in Oregon and is listed on the National Register for Historic Places. The museum features: ? Collections galleries featuring American, European, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese art, ? A changing Exhibitions Gallery totaling nearly 4,000 square feet, ? An educational suite, with an interactive discovery gallery, ? An art studio, ? Lecture hall, and reception hall. Lead: Laura Niles Target media: Based on topic i.e. new philanthrophy in the arts or exhibit content this story could go local, regional and possibly national. Interviews: Jill Hartz (new Museum Director), Erick Hoffman (Marketing Manager) Hope Pressman and Connie Huling (board), Jordan Schnitzer, philanthropist. 5) Visual artists – Living and working in Eugene If you're in Eugene, Oregon, where Willamette Street meets 8th Avenue, you'll find yourself in the heart of the area known as the Eugene Gallery District©. This is the area where the arts indeed come alive! Over a dozen art galleries as well as the renowned Saturday Market, the oldest weekly outdoor arts market in the United States, are at the center of Eugene’s downtown. Saturday Market, initiated in 1970, is the “keeper” of the counter culture heritage. It is a place to go back in time. Lead: Laura Niles with Tina Rinaldi, Robert Canaga and Mary Unruh. Target media: Local, Regional, National with focus on connection to arts and the last 40 years in Eugene and an embrace of the “counter culture” of the 60s & 70s. Interviews: Beth Little, Saturday Market Manager, Robert Canaga, Owner, Opus 6 and creator of EGD! (Eugene Gallery District), Mary Unruh, manager, Downtown Initiative for the Arts. An artist who began at Saturday Market in the 70s perhaps and now either has moved to larger quarters, gone national in sales or reputation. Tin WoodsmanBev Suggestions : , pewter pieces sold around the world, SoaseyLotte Streisinger - , visual artist, Streisinger worked as a potter, selling at Saturday Market and elsewhere for more than 40 years. When back surgery made clay work too heavy, she turned to printmaking, writing