Hogue-Sponenburgh Lecture Series

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. Beginning in 2011, the annual Hogue-Sponenburgh Art Lectureship will be organized in alternate years by the Department of Art and the Department of Art History.

Past Lectures

2019 | Garrard Conley

Author of "Boy Erased"
Faith and Identity in Art, Literature and Cinema

2016 | Professor Alessandro Nova

Director of the Kunsthistorisches Institute im Florenz
‘La dolce morte’: Leonardo’s Anatomical Drawings and the Cognitive Value of Images

2014 | Adam Stennett

Conceptual Artist, Brooklyn, New York
Keep Making Art

2014 | Patricia Berger

Professor of Chinese Art History, University of California, Berkeley
Transplanting China on the Global Stage

2013 | Myra Greene

Associate Professor of Photography, Columbia College Chicago
My White Friends

2011 | George Baker

Associate Professor of Art History, University of California
Paul Thek: Notes from the Underground

2010 | Alexander Nagel

Professor of Fine Arts, New York University
Orientations in Renaissance Art

2008 | Ellen Dissanayake

Affiliate Professor at the School of Music, University of Washington
The Deep Structure of the Arts

2007 | 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

2006 | 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

2005 | Shelby Lee Adams

Documentary Photographer
Appalachian Lives

2003 | Fred Wilson

Conceptual Artist
The Silent Message of the Museum

2002 | A.D. Coleman

Photography critic, media commentator and educator
Potlatch, Auction and the In-Between: Digital Art and Digital Audiences

2002 | 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

2000 | David C. Driskell

Distinguished University Professor of art emeritus, University of Maryland, College Park
The African American Continuum: An Historical Overview

1998 | 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

1997 | H. Alan Shapiro

Professor of classics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
The Art of Democracy in Classical Athens

1997 | Jaroslav Folda

N. Ferebee Taylor Professor of the history of art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
What is Crusader Art?

1996 | Lucy Lippard

Educator, writer and activist
The Lure of the Local

1995 | Gordon Gilkey

Educator, printmaker, print collector, curator and arts advocate in Oregon
The 20th Century Contribution to the History of Art

1994 | Marcia Tucker

Founder and director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art
Art in Extremis

1993 | Alan Trachtenberg

The Neil Gray Jr. Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University
Street Theater: Helen Levitt and American Urban Photography