Carolyn Schneider and I have just completed the third day of “Art Laundry II”, part of Salem Art Association’s Project Space, 2015. Our proposal was to work in the space daily and build an installation where we examined the threads between “women’s domestic work” and art work. How they might be similar, how they might […]
Category: Art work
Quilts
Though I haven’t been writing about my sewing practice much at all, in my real life I’ve been doing little else but stitching stitching. Stitching. Thursday I delivered eight red and white quilts to the Corvallis Art Center where they will be on view September 1-27, in two small venues at the Art Center called […]
Art Laundry 2
In 2012 I went to Fort Bragg, California, to make art with my friend artist Carolyn Schneider, and to put up a show called “Art Laundry” at the Lost Coast Culture Machine Gallery. We had fun, worked hard, and the show was a success and held over for another month. Carolyn discovered her latent desire […]
The Coolest Thing I Did Today
It was 99 degrees today, with 104 predicted for tomorrow…just now at 8:30 p.m. I’m opening the house for a wisp of breeze. I DO believe in global warming, btw. But here’s the coolest thing I did today…a long lunch and a warm and lovely conversation with my friend Nadia…in from Tunisia. She writes a […]
Beating the Heat
The weather forecast for today was for 100 degrees here in the valley, so we needed a strategy. It was clear the deck was out as it was already blazing by 9:00 a.m…. so we grabbed our stuff… and headed south to Corvallis to pick up a car-load of reupholstered furniture… and then an iced […]
Summer at the Hallie Ford Museum, and Elsewhere…
Friday night was the opening of the two summer shows at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art here in Salem. The BIG summer show is the work of Portland sculptor Mel Katz, with also the very fine show of drawings by artists Christy Wyckoff and Tom Prochaska. Mel Katz was to speak at 5:00 but […]
“Farm Stories”
I once read that the images that are imprinted on an artist’s brain in the first five years are the images that play out through all of their creative lives. I don’t know if this is true, but I can imagine that it is, after finding a book that was my favorite as a young […]
Portland Art Day
Off to Portland today on the Louis Bunce trail…and other artistic endeavors. A beautiful sunny day at the end of spring…we visited a Portland collector to look at his Louis Bunce paintings that R might borrow for the 2017 show of Bunce’s work at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. He has some real beauties […]
Brief Quilt Interlude
Memorial day weekend, the travel quilts are finished, back to work on the show quilts…low blogging energy today…so…here’s the “ugly Fabric Challenge” quilt which I quilted in the car down to and back from Asilomar. Twice as year somebody in the quilt group produces some less-than-ideal fabric, everybody gets a piece and goes away and […]
Road Trip
A busy week here getting ready to head out…some ukulele playing in Monterey, a stop in Sonoma to look at quilts, departure is imminent. I’ll just leave you with a few little Louis Bunce gouaches we ran across. More news from the road…. rescue quilt almost done… Bye bye…
On The Way 