2024-2025 Catalog
Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University
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The Oregon Center for the Arts (OCA), an affiliate to the School of Arts & Communication (ACO), produces and presents the work of professional and student artists from the university and throughout the world through performances, exhibitions, festivals, concerts, special events and partnerships with arts organizations at the university and in the community. The Center encourages artistic development, contextual understanding, and explorations of creative expression.
Office - Music Building, Rm 142
541-552-6101
http://oca.sou.edu/
OCA Staff
Director of the ACO|OCA - Andrew Gay
Administrative Assistant to the Director of the ACO|OCA - Beth Glosner
OCA Production Manager - Cathi Romero-Molay
OCA Marketing/Box Office Manager - Kim Andresen
Theatre Production Assistant - Jane Hickinbotham
Schneider Museum of Art
Executive Director - Scott Malbaurn
Museum Preparator - Maureen Williams
Museum Assistant - Emily McPeck
Chamber Music Concerts
Executive Director - Jody Schmidt
Tutunov Piano Series
Artistic Director - Alexander Tutunov
Oregon Fringe Festival
Artistic Director 2024 Festival - Russell Copley
JPR/OCA One World Performance Series
Artistic Director - Paul Westhelle
ShakespeareAMERICA
Director - David McCandless
VISION STATEMENT
The Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University empowers and entertains people through the enjoyment of the arts.
MISSION STATEMENT
The Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University reflects, produces, and presents the work of artists from the university and the greater community in Southern Oregon, the nation, and the globe. This will be done through performances, exhibitions, lectures, festivals, special events, and partnerships with internal and external arts organizations of the university.
FOCUS
The Center is the production wing of the School of Arts & Communication as well as a partner with artists and arts organizations that ascribe to the OCA mission. The unique setting of the Oregon Center for the Arts at SOU serves as a creative catalyst for the mixture of students, educators, artists, and professional arts organizations. This diverse combination will infuse the Oregon arts landscape with the presentation of artistic excellence and entertainment. The OCA serves as the public face for performances, presentations, and exhibitions of the School of Arts & Communication and the university with support from the Center’s patrons and donors.
ARTISTIC COMPONENTS
The Schneider Museum of Art
The Schneider Museum of Art is a vital force that stimulates inspiration and curiosity through engagement with living artists. Serving both an academic community and global audiences, the Museum creates a diverse and accessible environment by curating innovative exhibitions, imaginative programming, a distinguished collection, lively discourse, and learning. The Museum’s programming includes a nascent visiting artist-in-residence program with artists teaching and creating original works on-site (VAST). These are presented in the Museum and provide unique opportunities for student involvement. Strong collaborative programs are developed with all areas of the arts to engage students and present works of innovation and exploration.
Chamber Music Concerts
Chamber Music Concerts (CMC) is a concert presenter dedicated to bringing world-class chamber music to Southern Oregon for the enjoyment, enrichment, and education of the region. In addition to concerts at the SOU Music Recital Hall, CMC presents educational outreach programs, which reach diverse groups throughout the community as well as SOU students, faculty, and the community.
Tutunov Piano Series
The Tutunov Piano Series is a concert presenter dedicated to hosting world-class pianists and on occasion accompanying musicians for the enjoyment, enrichment, and education of the community. The Series contains six to eight visiting artists each year who perform and present master classes for students in piano.
Oregon Fringe Festival
Each spring, the Oregon Fringe Festival presents a multi-day event celebrating bold, innovative, and outrageous creativity in the arts. It is a boundary-breaking platform for free expression of SOU students, faculty, and invited guest artists. It celebrates unconventional art and unconventional space. The festival is student-produced (only one in the world) and is a crossroads for emerging artists and professional practitioners to engage with each other’s creative work. The festival is aligned with the rich history of The Fringe, an international movement exploring our innate creative spirit.
Oregon Arts Medallion
In 2017 the Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University created the Oregon Arts Medallion to recognize and honor Oregon philanthropists who have significantly contributed to and invested in the creative culture in the State of Oregon. The award is presented biennially at a special function in honor of the recipient. The mission of the OCA includes the training, nurturing, and presenting of Oregon artists as well as honoring those individuals who support the arts.
JPR/OCA One World Performance Series
JPR and the Oregon Center for the Arts at SOU have teamed up to present the One World Performance Series - an eclectic mix of both established and emerging musicians touring the West Coast. Featuring some of the top artists touring the West Coast with the goal of bringing people together to share the universal language of music.
ShakespeareAMERICA
ShakespeareAMERICA is an accessible forum for practitioners, scholars, teachers, students, and audiences that explores and documents new and provocative thinking about the world and works of William Shakespeare through the prism of an American perspective and shares its discoveries through multiple 21st-century platforms.
Community Arts Partnerships
Another aspect of the Center is the close working relationships and partnerships that exist between the University and community arts organizations including Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Britt Music and Arts Festivals, Ashland International Film Festival, Rogue Valley Symphony, Southern Oregon Repertory Singers, Ashland Gallery Association, Ashland New Plays Festival, and Rogue Valley Symphonic Band. Community arts organizations provide professional/semi-professional arts experiences for SOU students. There is a long history of collaboration between SOU and the partner organizations that have created for the region and the state a rich cultural environment.
OPERATIONAL SERVICES BY THE OCA
Box Office - provides ticketing services for patrons of performances and special events of the university.
Arts and Event Marketing - provides marketing for SOU performances and SOU-sponsored performances through print, social media, and broadcast media; and develops programs for selected performances.
Venue Rentals - provides and schedules access to SOU’s performance venues and assesses appropriate fees for use.
Performance Management - provides backstage and front-of-house management and operation of SOU performance venues.
Performance Streaming - provides media streaming services for live concerts.
Artist Contracts - negotiates, creates, and develops contracts for select guest artists and groups performing at the Oregon Center for the Arts.
Production Services - provides management of equipment and its operation for performances in SOU performance venues. Manages production budgets for School productions and presentations.
Special Events - provides services for the creation, development, and/or presentation of special events in arts facilities including festivals, ceremonies, receptions, etc.
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