Dr. Heidi R. Lewis, Assistant Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College, reviews the exhibition Beyond Mammy, Jezebel, and Sapphire: Reclaiming Images of Black Women, opening Friday, December 2nd at Alexandria Museum of Art in Louisiana, for The Feminist Wire. The exhibit was jointly curated by Alexandria Museum of Art and I.D.E.A. Space at Colorado College from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.

Alexandria, Louisiana — The Alexandria Museum of Art begins its 40th anniversary year with a dynamic exhibition opening on December 2, 2016, that challenges negative stereotypes of African-American women in American popular culture, exemplified by the trio “Mammy," "Jezebel," and "Sapphire."

'The exhibition examines the trope of the “Strong Black Woman”, uncovering the opportunities and dangers that this characterization creates for Black women. From the suffering mama, to the stoic victim, to the sassy broad – the images presented in the exhibition question and overturn entrenched archetypes of Black femininity. Frankly addressing ideas such as frailty, sexualized power, and racially bounded ideals of beauty, the exhibition presents us with compelling and nuanced examinations of multiple Black female identities and experiences. Curated jointly by the Inter Disciplinary Experimental Arts Space at Colorado College and the Alexandria Museum of Art from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, Beyond Mammy, Jezebel, & Sapphire features images of and by Black women. 

The Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) has announced its winners of the annual Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards. Launched in 2008, the Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards are the first annual book award program to be offered by AJS, made possible by funding from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation of Portland, Oregon. These awards recognize and promote outstanding scholarship in the field of Jewish Studies and honor scholars whose work embodies the best in the field:  rigorous research, theoretical sophistication, innovative methodology, and excellent writing. The awards are structured to recognize all areas of Jewish Studies research, paying tribute to both the breadth and depth of AJS members’ scholarship.

Blake Gopnik, Critic-at-Large for Artnet News and regular contributor to The New York Times, will present a lecture on Andy Warhol at the Portland Art Museum on Sunday, November 20th, at 2pm. The lecture, "Through a Screen, Darkly" is part of the programming associated with the current exhibition, Andy Warhol: Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.

Paul Sutinen reviews the current pop art exhibitions at Portland Art Museum, Andy Warhol: Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation and Corita Kent: Spiritual Pop, for Oregon ArtsWatch. "The Portland Art Museum's Andy Warhol exhibition opens the door to Pop Art, but don't miss the Corita Kent show downstairs," Sutinen writes.

Barry Johnson reviews the exhibition Andy Warhol: Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation at Portland Art Museum, the largest Warhol retrospective ever presented, for Artslandia magazine.

Johnson asks exhibition curator Sara Krajewski about Warhol's greatest strength as an artist. “He understood images—including his own,” Krajewski said. “They are still very powerful to us today.” Over 250 of these iconic images are on view in the exhibition; as Johnson writes, "many of them among the most famous of the 20th century."

Forbes reviews Pop for the People: Roy Lichtenstein in LA at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The exhibit, sponsored by Jordan Schnitzer and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation and curated by The Skirball's Bethany Montagano, features some 70 works across four decades of Lichtenstein’s career.

Portland Art Museum's current exhibit Andy Warhol: Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation is featured in the Michelin Guide's Portland Report. The largest Warhol exhibition ever mounted, it comprises over 250 of the artist's iconic prints and spans two floors of the museum.

Renowned artist Nicole Eisenman will be the featured speaker at the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation Artist Lecture at the IFPDA Print Fair on Saturday, November 5th. She will be joined will be joined in conversation by art critic and former Art in America editor Faye Hirsch.

In a recent Art in America review, the magazine praised Eisenman as "among the most important New York painters working today." While known best as a painter, Eisenman is also a prolific printmaker across multiple mediums including etching, lithography, monotype, and woodcut. In August 2011 she began a year-long endeavor where she focused solely on works on paper and print-making.