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 […]
Category: Artists
“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 […]
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 […]
George Baker on Paul Thek
Last night was the annual Sponenburgh lecture presented by the Art History Department at Willamette. The speaker this year was writer/critic George Baker from LA who has been writing on the artist Paul Thek (Thek died in 1988) who was recently the subject of a career retrospective at the Whitney Museum. Baker was lively and […]
Astoria and Maya Lin
In Astoria today as a tag-along with R who is a member of the Oregon Arts Commission. Yesterday we had a fascinating visit to the Maya Lin Cape Disappointment piece that is part of 5 created for the Confluence Project commemorating the journey of Lewis and Clark in 1805-6. The site was gorgeous, just over […]
Artweek…2011
Here’s a little story…two girls met in art class in 7th grade. They became friends. They dressed in black (like “beatniks”) and took the El to the Loop to the Art Institute to “hang out”…and many years later they began the annual “artweek” visitations. Sometimes in Carolyn’s studio in California, sometimes in mine in Salem. […]
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. […]
Jay Backstrand and Tom Cramer at Laura Russo
Opening last night…a night that really felt like summer almost…
Archiving…
Today we met at the PNAA (or maybe the PNAAA), Pacific Northwest Artists Archive, at Willamette University. Archivist Mary McKay entered into a dialog with representatives from the Hallie Ford Museum and the Salem Art Association (and one interested citizen–me) about the matter of archiving a life’s work. How to help artists develop such an […]
On The Way 