If you’re down Corvallis way you still have 2 more weeks to see the nice drawing show “Making a Mark: Drawing in Oregon” at the Corvallis Art Center (700 SW Madison Ave)…up until May 18th. Of course I WOULD say it’s a nice show because I have some drawings in it, but actually…it really is […]
Category: Art World
Manuel Izquierdo: Farewell
Only three more days to get down to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art to see the Manuel Izquierdo Show. To celebrate the end of the show curator Roger Hull will moderate a panel of four regional sculptors at the museum on Sunday March 24th at 2:00 p.m., talking about Manuel and his work. As […]
A Quiet Day, A little Drawing…
This morning I just took myself out for coffee with the newspapers and my little current drawing book called “Map of the Table”… and I STARTED to draw, but there was a “lady” having one of those HORRIBLE loud cell phone conversations that overtakes a huge area and everyone in it….eek…do you know those people […]
13 Hats at 12 X 16
It was a beautiful day for looking at art today (…and what day WOULDN”T be a beautiful day for looking at art???) so we jumped into the car and headed to the artist’s reception at 12 x 16 Gallery. The show there this month is by a collaborative group called “13 Hats”(…but really there are […]
Saturday Catch-up…
Wow… a busy three days have zoomed by over here in the far west. In chronological order (I’m influenced by an art historian here…) it looked like this…celebrate Jim’s birthday (and it was a major one…) have breakfast with artists…good talk, good breakfast… go get LAST (5th) cast removed, into “the boot”, and actually SEE […]
Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Friday is Member Appreciation Day at the Hallie Ford Museum of art. There will be tours and chats and food…it will be fun. This little museum takes the art of Oregon and our region very seriously, producing many wonderful shows every year of work in and out of our region…and if you aren’t already a […]
Carwash Fun…
The other day Kate told me that if I paid for the most EXPENSIVE wash I could get some colored soap…so we checked it out. It started like the usual car wash… with my favorite elements… and THEN…woohoo… Dorothy (our GPS) was speechless… then the rinse… and we were shoved out the back…FUN!!!! So VISUALLY […]
A museum weekend…
It was a museum weekend for our house…I’m sure you’ve seen the new banner installed on the west side of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art… and Saturday our family came down to see the show…Bruce and LeeAnn from Seattle, Doug, Marie, Emma and Finley from Portland, and Z & A. …and then home for […]
BUSY WEEK…
We zoomed to Portland this past week for a sleep-over…the weather was mostly like that pictured in this Michael Brophy painting… but spirits were high anyway. We visited Sara, checked in to our hotel of choice and headed over to Henk’s opening at Laura Russo. The paintings are gorgeous, big, full of drama. (As it […]
On The Way 