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. […]
Save the DATE!…and that date is Saturday, April 11, 2015. 10:00 a.m. Artist Kristin Kuhns and the Salem Public Library will be unveiling Kristin’s two pieces for the entrances (one on each floor) to the children’s room at the library. Library staff was intent that when Children enter the library they know EXACTLY where to […]
I published this on my birthday in 2009-13, took a year off last year, but I still think it tells the first part of my story, and I love the old photos of the little me… Today (3-23) is my birthday and I’ve attained a certain age. I have plans, things to do, places to […]
No organized thoughts tonight. No real focus. So many things and events, moments, people, streaking through my brain…images to tell the tale…a visit to the Saward Collection… Henk Pander… William Givler… George Johanson…white paintings… Harry Widman… Ruth Patterson Hart SRH… Barbara Rowland… Bru… RPH… Interlude… Salem Sketchers… the taxes… Reading and thinking… early morning… RPH […]
Well if you blinked this week you’ve almost missed it…Mary Lou Zeek’s current POP-UP gallery show, “BLINK”, which is a nice show…four rooms of painting, sculpture, work on paper…a wide variety of artists represented…a handsome show. I went to the artists’ reception and of course it was too crowded and filled with friends for very […]
We were out and about today and here’s what we saw…we drove by the storefront where Mary Lou Zeek’s new “pop-up” show BLINK opens on February 23 (in between Magoo’s and the OLCC store on SE Commercial Street). The gala is Tuesday, February 24 from 5-7 and should be fun. She has a new idea […]
Drawing is one of my favorite activities, and this weekend in Salem there were some fun opportunities, if you like to draw with a group…and sometimes I do. (My brother How turned me on to the Urban Sketchers blog a few years ago…the tag line is “seeing the world one drawing at a time”.) Saturday […]
There are beauties about living in a small place, partly born out in being able to know the people who do fun things around you. In the last few days I’ve been able to appreciate Salem from various angles. On Saturday we went to the CCTV studio to be the audience for our favorite band […]
Some houses are iconic for a family. Often they are houses that aren’t grand necessarily, but are places where life has been interestingly lived. There is such a house for the Hull family. It’s in Wallace, Idaho, a place totally unlike anyplace I’ve been…a place out of the big box-internet-fast food-stream of modern life. It […]
The annual Wild Women show opened at the River Gallery last night with Sloy’s paintings shining out like beacons… this one is called “opposite dimples” and there’s a nice article about the making of this painting in the current Salem Weekly. One advantage of Sloy’s paintings is they are BIG in a room of small […]
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