Oregon Bach Festival’s first season under the directorship of Matthew Halls promises to be as diverse and widespread as the conductor’s own musical passions.

The latest "A couple minutes with…" video interview is with Lonnie Ekstrom, who started working at the UO Department of Public Safety in 2004 – first as a patrol sergeant and then as a dispatcher. He’d already had a nearly 30-year career as a police officer in Idaho. But he didn’t just bring decades of experience as a cop; he’s also an artist, with an illustrious career sketching composites of police suspects.

In celebration of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art’s 80th anniversary, the museum is raising donations to acquire Chinese artist Xiaoze Xie’s “Order (The Red Guards)” for its permanent collection. The work would enhance the JSMA’s historic Chinese collection, build cross-cultural connections with international contemporary art and support the teaching and training of UO students, the museum said.

Eugene photographer Michael Thompson’s fascination with the intersection of the natural and built landscapes will be featured in an upcoming exhibit in the UO School of Law. "Rhythm and Geometry in the Landscape," including 30 color photographs by Thompson, are on display from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at the law school's second floor Mezzanine Gallery, through Dec. 27. A public reception with light refreshments will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 3.

”Korda and the Revolutionary Image,” a new exhibition at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, features photographs of such historical figures as Fidel Castro, Raúl Corrales and Che Guevara, taken by Cuban photographer Alberto Korda. The exhibition is on view in the JSMA’s Focus Gallery through Jan. 26.