Only a few more shopping days left…no better time to make the rounds like I did here and here…don’t forget Bush Barn, Cooke’s Stationery(stocking stuffers!!) The Arbor, Ma Valise, Mary Lou Zeek, The Art Department, Greenbaum’s, Ranch Records, Fitts…
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Don Olsen, Helmet Art…See See Coffee
I drove up the pike again Saturday for Don Dagg’s birthday party (Happy Birthday Don!), followed by a visit to Don Olsen‘s studio sale where we shopped big, and then headed to 1642 Sandy Blvd. to See See Motorcycle company. Just opened by owner Thor Drake, on view right now are twenty one motorcycle helmets […]
The iPad Saga…
Ten days or so ago I dropped my iPad2 and smashed the glass (sob) but luckily the case wasn’t damaged. I began to search for repair options…Apple=$400…nope. The cheapest on-line repair I could find was $189. Then the Mac store in town pointed me to the Reboot Store (384 Center Street NE, 503-363-8221) right in […]
“Treasures From the Trunk”
Eight women met Sylvia Dorney (Greenbaum’s Quilted Forest) late this afternoon at the Willamette Heritage Center to walk through the nice show of heritage quilts curated by quilt historian Mary Bywater Cross…up until December 24th, one in a series of shows focusing on valley women. Most of the quilts were completed AFTER the Oregon trail […]
City Days
We’ve gotten in the Christmas spirit by spending a few days in the city, a trip that began as R attending a meeting, and turned into a three day festival of varied activities that surprised us with how much you can really cram into three days. I could draw it out over several posts but […]
ArtMarket…
Put it on your calendar…December 9th…5:00-8:00 p.m….Bush Barn Gallery…ArtMarket will preview. Featured will be items made by local artists out of materials of “little intrinsic value” meant to be handled and sold very cheap. My particular entry will be 5 small duct (or, as it is now called, “duck”) tape “quilts.” These are mostly about […]
“Leland #1,” Lee Kelly/Bonnie Bronson
As “Capital Taps” pointed out in the comments of the last post, the Izquierdo sculpture sits in the middle of Lawrence Halprin’s fountain corridor in Portland. Beginning at the north is the Forecourt Fountain (or the Ira Keller Fountain) with Pettygrove Park next (location of the Izquierdo sculpture) and then the Lovejoy Fountain. Here is […]
Manuel Izquierdo, “The Dreamer”
This fall Roger has begun to prepare to write a book on sculptor Manuel Izquierdo, and to curate the show of Izquierdo’s work, which opens at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in January of 2013. There will be many trips, conversations, interviews, library hours…ahead this winter and spring as the event and the document […]
Follow-up to the Moving Experience…
Today wasn’t the BEST day for photographing, but here are all those buildings that were moved, as they look today in their “new” locations… Gatke Hall (formerly the Salem post office) has been newly refurbished by Willamette University and looks pretty smashing with the new trim color (…now if they would just replace the striped […]
The Rest of the Weekend
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 […]
On The Way 