PHEW. Finished up today and removed the mess and most of the stuff leaving only the following: the former double wedding ring and a detail of same and the collages neatly installed in a book for easy viewing
Category: Art work
PS3 Update…
Tuesday was a work day at PS3 with all five collaborators there at once (for few minutes…). Barbara brought a journal she found at the Goodwill it got me thinking of some small collages Paula found a color range that looked good and started working (you can see her foot and her shadow…) Sadie painted […]
Project Space 3
Today I moved into PS 3 where I’ll work for a month with other artists including Corrie Loomis-Dietz, Paula Booth, Barbara Rowland. I’ll have two projects going which will include the old double wedding ring top: (which looks better in this photo than in real life…) which I plan to cut up and reassemble without […]
Marge Riley
We heard this morning that Marge Riley has died…slipping away quietly after a long and productive life. Marge supported numerous Oregon artists and arts institutions, and in addition was a lively and interesting person. Collector, advocate, friend. A few years ago Marge donated a large part of her art collection to the Hallie Ford Museum […]
Living the Creative Life: Jonathan Bucci
Jonathan’s day job is as collections curator at the HFMA, but in his REAL life he’s an artist. We did a studio visit to see the rest of the oregano series (one currently on view in the Mayor’s Invitational) and see the new work, both two and three dimensional. Jonathan has converted the garage into […]
Project Space 3 Update
Zoomed by Project Space yesterday and LOVED Michael Boonstra’s video water piece…nobody could avoid jumping into the video water:
Quilts: The State of Oregon
Well I finished the State of Oregon quilt top yesterday and put it together today. It looks a bit overwhelming at this point so I’ll just show you some details. Here’s a bit of western Oregon and Crater Lake: Here’s the Willamette Valley and the Coast Range/beach/ocean: It will look better when it’s quilted (I […]
The 4th Mayor’s Invitational
Salem Conference Center hosts this show for a year. Last year it was work from the City of Salem’s collection, and this year it was an invitational. I fell down on my true reporting because of too much schmoozing (…have I said that before?…) but here are the few pictures I took. The main concourse: […]
Quilt Retreat, Day Four
We finished!! though it just about killed us off. The pre-elderly can’t really sew for 9 hours…Kay had to take a rest “cure” this morning and so did Jack… we tidied up and checked progress on the other quilts:
Quilt retreat, Day 3
We really worked, and the method became very interesting. I would work on the quilt awhile, then Kay, then me etc. Our starting place was a Rosie Lee Tompkins quilt Yesterday, day 3, we worked about nine hours and Kay got up early to do the very last bit, which she’s working oneven as I […]
On The Way 