“As a public institution acting on behalf of the people of Oregon and the world, we have a special responsibility at OSU not just to present art but to engage audiences,” Betjemann said in a statement released by the university. “The Arts and Education Complex is much more than a new arts building. It’s an architectural and curricular space devoted above all to inclusivity — a place where students, visitors and audiences will find heaps of educational content and boundary-breaking interventions in the old notion that art exists for a privileged few.”
Betjemann will oversee the management of the arts complex staff, programming, curation, fundraising, marketing, public relations, budget, and community and educational outreach.
Betjemann is the author of “Talking Shop: The Language of Craft in an Age of Consumption,” which examines how the rise of arts objects influenced…
