Friday was fun. A certain art historian and I went to Portland to see a couple of shows. First the Art Gym at Marylhurst where two shows “Dregs” and “The Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things” were on (on view until Feb 11th). “Dregs” was an artist’s (Brandy Cochrane/Paul Middendorf) use of the material of three […]
Category: Artists
Just Thursday…
Breakfast with a bunch of artists: errands during which I saw this adorable little house and a satisfyingly pretty coffee
Art Quest: Eileen Cotter Howell at Waterstone
Yesterday 7 of us, a merry band of artists, met at Corrie’s studio to begin a little “aventura,” then jumped into Kristin’s van and took off for Portland: We were heading up to see Eileen’s show at Waterstone Gallery, and to hear her talk about her new work left to right Kathy, Paula, Eileen The […]
Corvallis Art Center
Tonight’s the last night for bids on the very fun shrine show at the Corvallis Art Center. 100 artists were given a box and then made “shrines” of various types. This week I ran down to see the show and took shots of a few Salem artists represented. There’s still time to get down there […]
Living the Creative Life: Elizabeth Baumann
Had coffee with Elizabeth and the adorable Alex the other morning. It caused me to remember trying to make art on top of the washing machine, and other adventures of young motherhood. I’ve known Elizabeth since before she was born so we go way back. She is making nice paintings of a small scale and […]
“The Mountain and the Metropolis”
Zoomed up to Tacoma Friday evening and checked in to the lovely Hotel Murano. Because of the proximity to the Glass Museum and being in Chihuly-land, the museum is filled with glass work of varying kinds: We were there for Roger to give a talk in conjunction with a current show at the Tacoma Art […]
Cynthia Herron and Sharon Rose: a collaboration
Ten years ago or so Sharon Rose wrote a book about Minto/Brown Island, our local riverside park of many many acres for bikes, runners, dogs. The bike trails alone are more than nine miles of beautiful riding. Last year she put out a revised edition of the book (with a Carl Hall painting on the […]
Marie Watt and Ford Hall
Today a new classroom building (oops–I didn’t photo the building) was dedicated on the Willamette campus. The building was built with funding from major benefactor Hallie Ford and her portrait (by Portland artist Paul Missal) hangs in the lobby: Today, though, I wasn’t there to attend the ceremony, but rather to join artist Marie Watt’s […]
Art Week, Day Four
Well last night I was too tired to post. We worked cheerfully but soundlessly all day long stopping for a few trips to Cooke’s Stationey for clips and pens and things–not even eating lunch until 3:00. We completed our books, started hanging them up. Today we have to finish all the work and then tidy […]
Art Week, Day Three
We got tired today, after about 3 or 4 hours. The books are coming together but we might be feeling like we need to shift gears here–maybe on day 4 or 5?? We kind of got a bunny thing going And as I started a new series, Carolyn was embossing: Two more days until the […]
On The Way 