Last week in Washington DC we visited three of the many wonderful national museums there, all available to citizens and visitors from other countries (and there were MANY such visitors last week) FREE of charge. We were in DC at the Smithsonian Archive of American Art (more about that soon) researching Portland painter Louis Bunce. […]
So after the Umbrian idyll and saying good bye to loved ones we headed… yep…back to Florence for two lovely days. We found the restaurant Garga right near our hotel…I’d taken a cooking class from Sharon back in 2001 when the restaurant Garga was on Via del Moro…and we had a fabulous dinner… ending with […]
Right after our AMAZING group left, we began another lively and fun week. R’s sister, husband and daughter arrived and after a Florence tour (George was with us in Florence in the 1990’s, Fanny with us in 2011…all new to Jennifer) the five of us took the train to Terantola, where we picked up our […]
Our 2014 Italian adventure is complete, and what a trip it was. Though I started posting from “the road,” it became clear there was only enough time and energy to “live in the moment.” There WAS enough time and energy to take a ton of photos though…phew. The first half of the trip was with […]
I leave Friday for California, for a 10 day sojourn in Fort Bragg. Carolyn Schneider and I will be doing an installation at the Lost Coast Culture Machine…”Hull and Schneider met in a seventh grade art class in the Chicago suburbs, where Lake Michigan is the ocean.” We’ll be examining the iconography of a mid-west […]
One of the most fun parts of the Alaska cruise for me (a former restaurant owner) was the “Galley tour” where we got to see the kitchens on the cruise ship Infinity. The ship carries a staff of 950 of which 150 or so are kitchen personnel. Everything is made on board, including all pastries […]
Howard and Amy took a trip on the ship Infinity early in the spring through the Panama Canal, and they told me there was a David Hockney on board someplace. When we boarded I asked at the desk for a list of the art on board and I was told “That does not exist, Madam”. […]
Wow…that was an adventure! We went on an 8 day cruise to Alaska last week leaving Seattle and going as far north as Skaguay with a stop in Ketchikan and a stop in Juneau, and a very brief stop in Victoria, plus a few days totally at sea. This was our first cruise and really, […]
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 […]
I promise this is the last chapter of our Italian adventure…for this year anyway! Well after our fabulous “groupo” took off, we had a brief but lovely four days in Florence (here a view from the roof garden atop the Hotel Grand Baglioni), with our beautiful niece Fanny wherein Roger toured her through streets and […]
On The Way 