Roger Hull has conducted a creative academic life at Willamette University for 40 years, arriving from Chicago in 1970. For 34 of those years he’s held forth in the building at the corner of State and Winter streets. This spring he’s closing down shop in the art building, and beginning to shift his thinking to […]
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Pretty Coffee: Poured vs. composed…
At Karen’s suggestion I tried the newest Salem cafe “Alcyone” (315 High ST SE, Pringle Park Plaza) for a pretty coffee and saw we had a little tutorial between a “composed” design and a “poured” design: and the gluten-free poppy seed bread was good too!!!
Gwen Marston at The Stitchin’ Post
Last Sunday four Seattle-ites swooped into town and we all took off east over the mountains for a two day workshop with famous quilter Gwen Marston. She was teaching the workshop in the back room at the WONDERFUL Sisters’ fabric shop called The Stitchin’ Post. After a bit of a lecture and “show and tell” […]
City Moment…
Just into the city for overnight but long enough to visit the home of great coffee…the original Stumptown on Division Even at 7:00 a.m. and in a paper cup they make a beautiful coffee and then I saw a quonset remodel of note. These pictures are both out of focus due to the low lght, […]
Friday Report from the Annex…
The Annex studio is in the middle of a terrific park. Part of my time there involves letting the setting infiltrate my thinking. This week, after some warm weather, everything is just POPPING! Here’s the scene right outside my patio door: and a closer view reveals bleeding heart: these cool little bamboo things: One of […]
First Thursday…
Up to Portland for a street car ride from the south waterfront to the Pearl, dinner at Silk and then over to Blackfish Gallery for the Paul Missal/Nancy Lindburg/Bill Owen show. It has now been officially confirmed…if I’m schmoozing I can’t take good pictures. But, here you go. The show was mostly Paul and featured […]
Various…
Last night the Carl Hall Gallery at the Hallie Ford Museum reopened after being closed some months for a remodel of the space and a rehanging of the collection. Too much schmoozing on my part got in the way of photos, but if you are out and about, take a look. It’s very elegant and […]
Orecchiette (“little ears”) on a Sunday…
Roger was grading all day Sunday so before heading off to the studio I decided to make orecchiette for our dinner. I saw it a while back on Francesca’s blog and Sunday was the day. Of course Francesca is Italian and I’m not but…I gave it a whirl. Francesca used her grandmother’s recipe, but I […]
Clay Ball!!
Last night was the big fund-raising “Clay Ball” for Salem Art Association. In these hard times for non-profits it was more important than ever for this community to come out to support the arts…and the place was packed. We arrived a little late to the silent auction area just in time to see the end […]
Friday report from the Annex…
The other day I found the plug for this string of lights which adds a jaunty air to the annex studio After a month the studio is beginning to feel like my own, especially Friday when Deb and her volunteers arrived to get the art work for the big fund-raising auction THE CLAY BALL. Everything […]
On The Way 