Critical Conversations is a nexus between artists and those who reflect upon, contextualize and present their work. Our critical writing initiative brings together Oregon’s arts writers and cultural producers to engage pressing currents in society, our region, and the field of art. Commissioned contributions emerge from a range of perspectives and creative practices, taking forms that include speculative essays, art reviews, interviews, photo essays, annotated bibliographies, ekphrastic poems, and editioned multiples.

The Ford Family Foundation and the University of Oregon are located on the traditional homelands of Indigenous people whose communities have stewarded these lands since time immemorial. Following the arrival of European explorers, the Indigenous communities across Oregon experienced repeated displacement and dispossession through settler colonialism, including the United States government policies that forcibly removed Indigenous populations from their ancestral lands to reservations within and beyond Oregon. Today, the descendants of Oregon’s first people continue to make important contributions to communities, institutions, the state of Oregon, the United States, and the world. We commit to ongoing efforts to center Indigenous presence and knowledge, creativity, resilience, and resistance within the work we do.

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