It rained today. As my friend Ellen put it, about waking up to a recent rainy Vermont day “…it seemed an invitation to a Reading Day. I accepted.” Ahhh… I think my life to be pretty full and fun…making things, seeing things, good work to do, interesting people, lots of art, a supportive family, beautiful […]
We picked up Willamette University Archivist Mary McRobinson this morning and headed up to Portland to visit Mardy Widman. The Widman family has donated Portland painter Harry Widman’s archival papers and materials to the Pacific Northwest Artists Archive (PNAA) at Willamette. Today we were going up with Mary to see Harry’s studio, the breadth of […]
The busy summer of writing and sewing has kept us out of the Portland galleries. We were up in the city Saturday though and took in a few. We missed Jack Portland’s talk Saturday at Laura Russo but R particularly wanted to see this painting…”Thanks Louis, I’m just starting to get it.” and I liked […]
Change of season, switching gears, sigh…start over…shut the studio door…but first…tomorrow (Wednesday 9-9-15) talk about the red and white quilts now on view at the Corvallis Art Center, noon, 700 Madison, Corvallis… But I don’t like speaking in public very much, so naturally Thursday I’ll be giving a demonstration of hand-quilting at the Studios-at-the-Mill, hands-on […]
We’re still ironing, still drawing, doing a bit of mending…talking a lot about housework, sewing, raising families as artistic expression…a great deal of reexamination of the lives of mothers by almost all our visitors…more about that when we sum up. Sunday will be a day of rest and relaxation…Monday we’ll be back on duty representing […]
Carolyn Schneider and I have just completed the third day of “Art Laundry II”, part of Salem Art Association’s Project Space, 2015. Our proposal was to work in the space daily and build an installation where we examined the threads between “women’s domestic work” and art work. How they might be similar, how they might […]
Though I haven’t been writing about my sewing practice much at all, in my real life I’ve been doing little else but stitching stitching. Stitching. Thursday I delivered eight red and white quilts to the Corvallis Art Center where they will be on view September 1-27, in two small venues at the Art Center called […]
Time for the Wallace High School all-class reunion again. We packed all the important stuff and headed east/northeast… We stopped in Mosier in the Gorge…Louis Bunce spent a few summers in Mosier back in the 1930’s with the Givlers and others…R wanted to get a feel for it. We headed across Washington and by now […]
It was 99 degrees today, with 104 predicted for tomorrow…just now at 8:30 p.m. I’m opening the house for a wisp of breeze. I DO believe in global warming, btw. But here’s the coolest thing I did today…a long lunch and a warm and lovely conversation with my friend Nadia…in from Tunisia. She writes a […]
We had to leave the beach today… but when we got to the highway it was (as Doug would say) “a parking lot.” As we inched north we decided to take the “secret” shortcut…(I trust you not to tell anyone), (YAY…it was raining!) and head up Schooner Creek… When we got the beach house years […]
On The Way 