In the paper this morning was the announcement that the very nice Professor of Politics at Willamette University, Sammy Basu, has been awarded the Carnegie/CASE award for teaching, as Oregon’s Professor of the year. Facebook lit up with pictures of a series of banners the University has put up honoring all 11 WU faculty members […]
Category: Modern Life
“Threading the Needle,” Rick Bartow, Dave (Nic) Nichols
I like it…looking at disparate stuff. In random order. The best. Elizabeth and I raced through the pouring rain to Portland yesterday for “research”…a fiber-oriented show at the Helzer Gallery at PCC Rock Creek Campus. Though the gallery was small…only enough room for one or two pieces from each artist, each piece had something to […]
A Basket Full of Stuff
My friend George writes a nice blog and the other day he wrote in an email that his recent post was a bit miscellaneous…sort of a “basket full of stuff.” THIS, I thought, exactly describes my current predicament…weirdly unrelated, all sort of interesting, some nice images…okay let’s go. The weather has been beautiful here, after […]
Sunday Fun….
A varied sort of day today…art/babies/friends/family…picked up my Madras show work from Coralee and got to see the piece she bought, installed…”Tron”…looking good… Downtown to catch Sue-Del McCulloch and Katy McFadden talk about their work on view at Waterstone Gallery… but I couldn’t get past Katy’s beautiful and expressive hands… Or Alexander’s cautious flirtation… A […]
Oregon Capitol Has a Birthday!
On April 25, 1935, our stately old Capitol building burned, alas. To the ground. A new building was built, a cornerstone was installed in a big ceremony… and a statue of a golden pioneer was placed atop the building… 75 years ago…and this is birthday week. We heard the capitol building was decorated like a […]
Eunice Parsons Thinking Archivally
Eunice Parsons is considering giving her “papers” (and here I mean correspondence, etc., NOT all the paper that is the raw material for collage…!) to the Pacific Northwest Artists Archive at Willamette University. The University library and the University Archivist are committed to building this collection, housing the papers of artists who have worked in […]
Kenosha, WI
A couple of weeks ago we visited my cousin Don who lives in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and his mom, my Auntie Pat. I couldn’t remember visiting Kenosha as a kid, though we often drove from the Chicago suburbs to Wisconsin on one of my Dad’s “drive-abouts”. Well during our visit this month, the history of Kenosha […]
The Coil Lamp, DIY
Well last week we nipped into the AIC’s new modern-wing store because I wanted a catalog for the Zarina show we saw in the museum…when we saw this lamp… It was made by coiling an extension cord around a clear plastic frame, but cost way too much… And then I saw that right NEXT to […]
Chicago Visit
We were gone last week and spent most of the week in Kenosha, Wisconsin…and more about that next time. The last day of the trip though, we headed into Chicago in order to see the new modern wing on the Art Institute, designed by Renzo Piano and built since our last trip…and a timely trip […]
Checking In-Checking Out
Busy week here with the usual wide variety of things to think about. We headed to White Salmon Wednesday for a night in the Mt. Hood room and a George Domijan dinner…plus a huckleberry G&T… Then all four of us took off for Madras for my opening. We ran into an amazing storm combination…thunder, rain […]
On The Way 