I went out to coffee with a bunch of artists the other day… and among the topics we talked about was the need to make things…a feeling I can identify from my earliest years. Today I sat in the back garden avoiding the heat and finishing the red and white quilt while also looking at […]
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Lord & Schryver
Saturday there was a tour of Lord & Schryver gardens and it was the PERFECT day…sunny and warm (but not too warm). We went first to Gaiety Hollow…Lord and Schryver’s home garden…the allee with the 300 year old oak tree was cool and inviting (though in spring it’s a riot of color), the brick paths […]
The Quilt Show in Sisters
So…the last 4th of July firecracker had hardly sounded when the REBELS scooped me up and we were off to Sisters for three days of quilting, quilts and fun. I was signed up for a class with the ladies from Gee’s Bend and had a sack of fabric ready to take… The first night though, […]
Brochures, Salads and Sake…
Yesterday was one of those days of mixed up activities…all fun. I started by going to Waller Hall on Willamette’s campus This building was built about 1864 and has served many uses for the university over the decades (including residence early on). The money for the initial building was raised by A.F. Waller, missionary minister […]
L&S…the Photo Session…and on
Yesterday was a busy one, beginning in the basement of the Hallie Ford Museum where the excellent Frank Miller came to photograph a few of the Lord & Schryver drawings for publicity use. Frank arrived with tons of equipment and quickly set up…ready to shoot: My CO-curator Sharon Rose was on hand, and the first […]
High Brow/Low Brow
The art world, like the middle east, is under going a major, youth-driven, change…though luckily not so violent. Along with the established galleries and the established art scene, the 20-somethings are seeking out other venues…or really ANY venues…to show their work. Point of pride is to be in a coffee shop, a bar, a…hair salon. […]
L&S…the pickup…
Yesterday Sharon and I met at the museum to go with collections curator Jonathan Bucci to the Knight Library in Eugene to pick up the drawings for the show of Lord & Schryver work that Sharon and I are curating (opening at the Hallie Ford Museum on June 22, 2011…more to come)… The helpful librarians […]
Jay Backstrand and Tom Cramer at Laura Russo
Opening last night…a night that really felt like summer almost…
Farewell to Henk…
Henk’s off to Holland soon to do business, to paint, to see family…and here’s his little carry-case for art supplies…(yes, it’s 4 feet tall…) we looked at some drawings and we checked a new still life just underway checked out the real still life and had some lunch. Safe travels, friend.
Marie Watt…revisited…
I was thinking about Marie Watt today, and the fun I had in the fall of 2009 working with people in the Willamette community to help put together a piece that would eventually hang in Ford Hall on campus (she set it up like a “quilting bee” and students, administrators, and “others”…like me…came) that’s Marie […]
On The Way 