Slavic Immigrant Artists in the Northwest (SIAN)

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Welcome

Slavic Immigrant Artists in the Northwest (SIAN) is an internship program that was launched in January 2023 by Heghine Hakobyan and Jenifer Presto at the University of Oregon. SIAN is funded by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Lindholm Faculty Fund, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the School of Global Studies and Languages. The program is devoted to the study of contemporary Northwest artists from Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

If you are a UO student, you can earn credit for participation in this internship. No knowledge of a Slavic language or prior coursework is required, just an interest in the arts. Undergraduates register for RUSS 404 and graduate students for RUSS 604. For registration approval, please contact Jenifer at presto@uoregon.edu. We look forward to working with you and expanding our gallery of featured artists.

Land Acknowledgment

The University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people. Following treaties between 1851 and 1855, Kalapuya people were dispossessed of their indigenous homeland by the United States government and forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation in Western Oregon. Today, descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon, and continue to make important contributions in their communities, at UO, and across the land we now refer to as Oregon.