AAWLS: 2026 Dr MLK Jr Day Event

AAWLS: 2026 Dr MLK Jr Day Event

Jan 22, 2026 |

A major aspect of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s work and vision for America focused on the right of every American citizen to belong and take their rightful place in contributing to the greatness of our country and world. Belonging requires institutions, communities, and people to make space. It also requires individuals to courageously live out their values, beliefs, and experiences in ways that build the common good.

On January 22, The University of Oregon will celebrate eight outstanding individuals and organizations who received the 2026 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Awards in the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom. This year’s theme is “The Courage to Belong.” Belonging requires courage to be agents of change and drum majors for justice, despite obstacles or adversity.

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: : Meg Onli- Critical Conversations, Critics and Curators Tour Lecture: “Some Notes on Curating”

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: : Meg Onli- Critical Conversations, Critics and Curators Tour Lecture: “Some Notes on Curating”

Oct 21, 2025 | , ,

University of Oregon 2025-26 Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research

Thursday, October 9: Meg Onli- Critical Conversations, Critics and Curators Tour Lecture: “Some Notes on Curating”

Thursday, October 9, 4:00 p.m.
Lawrence Hall, Room 115, 1190 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, OR
Lectures videos are archived on YouTube.

Meg Onli is the Nancy and Fred Poses Curator at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Onli has worked as the Andrea B. Laporte Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, most recently as Director and Curator of The Underground Museum, Los Angeles. She has curated such exhibitions Speech/Acts (2017), Colored People Time: Mundane Features, Quotidian Pasts, Banal Presents (2019), and Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation (2021) with Erin Christovale. She was appointed to curate the 2024 Whitney Biennial alongside Chrissie Iles.

This lecture is made possible by the Critical Conversations program, a partnership between the Ford Family Foundation and the University of Oregon Department of Art’s Center for Art Research (CFAR), to bring prominent curators and critics to Oregon to engage with artists statewide. This element of the program is a rotating collaboration with art organizations across the state to connect prominent national and international curators, critics, and writers with Oregon-based artists for in-depth studio visits.

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