For four decades, Photography at Oregon has brought photography exhibitions and lectures to the University of Oregon Museum of Art and other locations in Eugene and Lane County, Oregon.

Professor Bernie Freemesser and his students established the Photography at Oregon Gallery in 1966. PaOG was the first photography gallery at a public institution on the West Coast.

Bernie Freemesser in 1974

Photographer/attorney Gerald Robinson of Portland donated lighting and construction materials to transform a large broom closet on the museum's ground floor into an intimate gallery space. Shows were chosen and hung by a committee of students, faculty, and alumni.

PaOG's monthly exhibits built a devoted following for a quarter of a century. Though the museum eliminated the gallery space in favor of a gift shop in 1992, PaO has persevered and continued to promote fine-art photography.

With the opening of the newly remodeled, enlarged, and renamed Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon in January, 2005, PaO once again has a dedicated display space.

UO alumna and Lane Community College photography instructor Susie Morrill has chaired the PaO committee for more than a decade.

Susie Morrill in 2005

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