Artist Marie Watt will be featured in a mid-career retrospective show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, opening February 4, 2012. As she is not able to come out west for the installation process, I volunteered, with Sharon Rose, to help get colorful bindings sewn on some 150 blankets for one of the pieces […]
Category: Art work
Christmas Week…Monday and Tuesday
A busy week for most of us…Monday for me started with assisting Nancy Lindburg who is overseeing the re-arrangement of the art collection at the Salem Public Library. Jonathan Bucci, Collections’ Curator at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, designed the rehanging and he and museum colleague David Anderson were installing things in new locations […]
Christmas is coming…
Karen came for coffee Sunday and when she stepped in, and wanted to take off her shoes, she noticed something unusual… …one Rocksport, one Mephisto…oops. Well it was dark when she put her shoes on she said. We had a coffee and a chat and then she unveiled the beautiful beautiful old quilt squares she’d […]
Don Olsen, Helmet Art…See See Coffee
I drove up the pike again Saturday for Don Dagg’s birthday party (Happy Birthday Don!), followed by a visit to Don Olsen‘s studio sale where we shopped big, and then headed to 1642 Sandy Blvd. to See See Motorcycle company. Just opened by owner Thor Drake, on view right now are twenty one motorcycle helmets […]
City Days
We’ve gotten in the Christmas spirit by spending a few days in the city, a trip that began as R attending a meeting, and turned into a three day festival of varied activities that surprised us with how much you can really cram into three days. I could draw it out over several posts but […]
ArtMarket…
Put it on your calendar…December 9th…5:00-8:00 p.m….Bush Barn Gallery…ArtMarket will preview. Featured will be items made by local artists out of materials of “little intrinsic value” meant to be handled and sold very cheap. My particular entry will be 5 small duct (or, as it is now called, “duck”) tape “quilts.” These are mostly about […]
“Leland #1,” Lee Kelly/Bonnie Bronson
As “Capital Taps” pointed out in the comments of the last post, the Izquierdo sculpture sits in the middle of Lawrence Halprin’s fountain corridor in Portland. Beginning at the north is the Forecourt Fountain (or the Ira Keller Fountain) with Pettygrove Park next (location of the Izquierdo sculpture) and then the Lovejoy Fountain. Here is […]
Manuel Izquierdo, “The Dreamer”
This fall Roger has begun to prepare to write a book on sculptor Manuel Izquierdo, and to curate the show of Izquierdo’s work, which opens at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in January of 2013. There will be many trips, conversations, interviews, library hours…ahead this winter and spring as the event and the document […]
The Rest of the Weekend
The Seattle weekend didn’t ONLY have quilts in it…it had art and fun too. We arrived in time Friday to go to the Design Center for the screening of the new video and reception for the COMMUNITY ARTISTS PROGRAM, brainchild of Anne Lancaster. In this terrific program she matches display venues with artists work and […]
November Shows…
We made the rounds yesterday…a little anti-war or post 9-11 show at the Gretchen Shuette Gallery at the community college had some nice pieces from other shows this decade including one of April Water’s big women (Cindy Sheehan in this case) this nice piece done by Rob Bibler and Carol Hausser for an anti-war show […]
On The Way 