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 […]
Last night was the annual Clay Ball art auction to benefit the Salem Art Association. Money was raised, art changed hands, friends were greeted… But the fun this year was the hats…glamorous or fanciful… some chose to wear “virtual” hats…(including Clay Ball originator Mary Lou Zeek who was thinking about her upcoming pop-up art show […]
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 […]
Love from near, love from far, a sunny day…all good! XXOO
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 […]
I’ve used the headline “Art All Day” before, and it seems to refer to a day like Thursday…a day filled up from morning to night with a wide variety of art work to consider, which for people like us is about the best possible day. We headed to Portland early and the first stop was […]
In the late fall my long-time friend Nan moved to Portland and took her studio with her. Today I took a nap-time break on Sidney Day (Monday, the day when R & I routinely care for our adorable grandson) and dropped in to her new Portland studio. Her business is called Souvenir Suitcase… …and here’s […]
On The Way 