January 2025
Kickstart your Spring Semester with FREE access to all University Recreation facilities and fitness classes January 5-12! Don’t miss this amazing opportunity to get active, have fun, and meet new people. We look forward to seeing you there!
Your Collection: Faculty Remix Exhibition
Four WSU dining chefs will compete to craft the most creative and delicious taco using a tortilla, filling, and topping—traditional or not, anything goes! Students will have the opportunity to taste the tacos, vote for their favorite, and help crown the Cougar Chef Throwdown Champion.
Attention Pullman Faculty! Join the Spark team in Nova Studio (Spark 115) for guided, hands-on design activities sure to spark new creative approaches to your teaching. January’s faculty hour will focus on creative ideas for incorporating 3D printing into assignments. Guided, hands-on time will get you familiar with Nova Studio’s 3D printing options, all of which are available to your students for course assignments and projects.
Explore the fascinating world of glass with Dr. Hallie Meredith during a Community Perspectives Tour on Thursday, January 16, 2025, from 4:00–5:00pm.
Join the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU and WSU Department of Art faculty on Thursday, January 16, 2025 from 5:00–7:00pm to celebrate the opening of “Your Collection: Faculty Remix”. For this exhibition, in continuing recognition of our 50th anniversary year, studio art faculty have been invited to collaborate by responding to works from the museum’s permanent collection.
National Day of Racial Healing Opening Panel
On January 21 at 1:45 pm, as part of the National Day of Racial Healing 2025, the museum and WSU’s English Department will host a reading and open mic program in response to the theme of the day, “Keep on Pushing: Building Bridges to Sustainability.” Readers will include WSU Campus Civic Poets & finalists, creative writing students and faculty, and student editors of WSU creative writing publications. All students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to bring a poem to read during the open mic portion. Poems may be original compositions or selected from the work of another author, though they should engage with the themes of the day. Before and after the program, visitors are encouraged to view current museum exhibitions, including “The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation” and “Your Collection: Faculty Remix”.
The Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections at WSU Libraries is holding an opening reception for an exhibit called “Against the Grain: Countercultural Eating on the Palouse, 1916-2024.” The description of the exhibit is as follows: In 1989, Pullman, Washington, was named the Lentil Capital of the World. The reason was simple: the Palouse region produced 98 percent of the lentils grown in the United States. Most were shipped to customers in Europe, Africa, and Asia, where they had been enjoyed for hundreds and even thousands of years. Lentils have deep roots in cultures worldwide, but how did they arrive in the Palouse? To answer that question, one must consider countercultural communities in the United States—vegetarians, vegans, back-to-earthers, environmentalists, activists, and pacifists who chose a diet that lay outside of the norm.
Come to Northside Café for a special event celebrating the staff’s favorite meals! Get to know the friendly faces behind your daily meals as they share their beloved dishes with you. This is your chance to connect with the Northside Café team and discover their top culinary picks.
On Friday, January 31 from 12:00–1:00 PM, join Professor Kevin Haas for a Community Perspectives Tour at the museum with a printmaker’s perspective on select works in the current exhibitions, especially the series of screenprints by artist Ed Ruscha titled News, Mews, Pews, Brews, Stews & Dues. Haas will also offer an overview of printmaking and print publishing, and open discussion among tour participants will be encouraged.