The Hogue-Sponenburgh Art Lectureship, established and endowed by the late Janeth Hogue-Sponenburgh and Mark Sponenburgh, enables the 杏十八新茶分享 Departments of Art and Art History to bring a noted scholar, artist, critic, curator, or leader in the visual arts to campus each year to deliver a public lecture and to meet informally with students and faculty. The Sponenburghs were also the generous donors of a collection of more than 200 historical art objects representing five cultural areas worldwide, which the University received in 1990. The donation of this collection was instrumental in forming a foundation for the establishment of Willamette's Hallie Ford Museum of Art, which opened in the fall of 1998. Since 2011, the annual Hogue-Sponenburgh Art Lectureship has been organized in alternate years by the Department of Art (Studio) and the Department of Art History.
Past Hogue-Sponenburgh Art Lectures
Director of the Kunsthistorisches Institute im Florenz
‘La dolce morte’: Leonardo’s Anatomical Drawings and the Cognitive Value of Images
Conceptual Artist, Brooklyn, New York
Keep Making Art
Professor of Chinese Art History, University of California, Berkeley
Transplanting China on the Global Stage
Associate Professor of Photography, Columbia College Chicago
My White Friends
George Baker
Associate Professor of Art History, University of California
Paul Thek: Notes from the Underground
Alexander Nagel
Professor of Fine Arts, New York University
Orientations in Renaissance Art
Ellen Dissanayake
Affiliate Professor at the School of Music, University of Washington
The Deep Structure of the Arts
Suzanne Folds McCullagh
Curator of Earlier Prints and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago
Leading Ladies with an Eye: Three Generations of Drawing Collectors in Chicago
Dean Porter
Artist, Author, Director Emeritus of Snite Museum of Art at University of Notre Dame
The Rise and Fall of the Taos Society of Artists
Shelby Lee Adams
Documentary Photographer
Appalachian Lives
Fred Wilson
Conceptual Artist
The Silent Message of the Museum
A.D. Coleman
Photography critic, media commentator and educator
Potlatch, Auction and the In-Between: Digital Art and Digital Audiences
Kent R. Weeks
Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo
At Death's Door: The Future of Egypt's Valley of the Kings
David C. Driskell
Distinguished University Professor of art emeritus, University of Maryland, College Park
The African American Continuum: An Historical Overview
James Cuno
Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums
To Instruct and Delight: Art Museums at the Turn of the Millennium
H. Alan Shapiro
Professor of classics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
The Art of Democracy in Classical Athens
Jaroslav Folda
N. Ferebee Taylor Professor of the history of art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
What is Crusader Art?
Lucy Lippard
Educator, writer and activist
The Lure of the Local
Gordon Gilkey
Educator, printmaker, print collector, curator and arts advocate in Oregon
The 20th Century Contribution to the History of Art
Marcia Tucker
Founder and director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art
Art in Extremis
Alan Trachtenberg
The Neil Gray Jr. Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University
Street Theater: Helen Levitt and American Urban Photography