The first week of January. Snow. In an effort to get the year started right, I’ve been in one studio or another of mine every day. In both cases I entered into long reveries about studios and how lucky we are who have them…alternate realities really. They don’t have to be clean and tidy (though […]
Category: Oregon
Good News!
On the whole this is NOT a season of good news, though at last the debates are finished. The other day we noticed that something super-nice is happening downtown though…from the point of view of preservationists like us. The building which housed the S&H green stamp store in the 70’s and 80’s is being restored! […]
Pacific Northwest Artists Archive
For longer than 40 years Roger Hull has been thinking about and writing about art made here in the Pacific Northwest, most especially in Oregon. Since the inception of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in 1998 he has been curating exhibits of regional work and writing monographs about artists. This has resulted in a […]
The Proofs Arrived!
Roger Hull has been researching, writing, interviewing and thinking about the Portland modernist painter Louis Bunce for 3 years, at least. As usual I’ve had the most interesting time tagging along to lenders, archives, museums and galleries as Roger pulled together the story of Bunce’s life and work…a VERY fascinating story. The book, “Louis Bunce: […]
Off the Grid
I like the Internet, (even as I’ve come to believe the constant and instant sharing of information has not been good for our politics) and I like the easy access to images. Sometimes though it is sensational to leave all the voices behind and return to the world of living in the moment, thinking and […]
Art Laundry and Where Art Comes From
This week of working in the backyard studio with Carolyn Schneider, somebody I’ve known since the 7th grade when we met in an art class, has been fun. Interesting. Poignant. Hilarious. Sad. Our own work, our dead mothers and fathers, our family dynamics, aging, our own work…all this talk whirling around while we have worked […]
The Melange That is July…This Year
What a crazy mixed-up fun month this has been…so far. Possibly there is a limit to how much fun you can actually have in one calendar month, but I haven’t maxed out yet. The fourth of July of course (see below). Then visitors… How and Amy came and we looked at the bridge progress.. […]
The Heart of the Summer
That’s what I always think the 4th of July is, the heart of the summer, the time of blueberries and peaches…even though there are still three more months ahead and only one behind…(too many years on the academic schedule I guess.) And for us the 4th of July means the beach…this year like most of […]
SUMMER!
I actually do have a serious and informative post for later in the week, but I’ve been doing some summer things of late…it began with a seismic upgrade which meant cleaning the basement, this of a house we’ve lived in for 36 years…can you IMAGINE what a momentous photo this is?? …and artist Kathryn Cellerini […]
TIMBERLINE LODGE
Oregon has SO many treasures that one’s summer schedule could be filled with just visiting places right here at home. If you haven’t been to Timberline Lodge up on the slopes of Mt. Hood though, let me suggest you think about going. It’s a beautiful and historic building, filled with important Oregon art, good food […]
On The Way 