I first knew Kate Speckman as an artist. Some years ago I bought a small black and white clay house she made, and sent it to a friend in Italy. Then I knew Kate as an energetic events manager, a talented and organized volunteer arts administrator, a quilter, a friend. In 2011 we co-curated a […]
The Salem Public Library Foundation has raised the money for improvements to and enlargement of the Children’s Room at the Library (thank you donors!). The project is underway at the library right now, with hopes to have it ready and open this December. As part of the project, the Foundation asked Salem sculptor Kristin Kuhns […]
The lost is found…in this case photos. Saturday, after listening to George speak at Augen Gallery, we went next door to the Froelick Gallery to see Barry Pelzner’s knockout pieces…ball point pen on a good piece of paper: dense, visceral, wonderful…simple and complex together. Katherine Ace uses pattern and texture to great advantage… …and then […]
You have until November 1st to visit the Augen Gallery in the DeSoto Building (716 NW Davis in Portland) to see the pure delight that a painter can take in the act of painting, and powerfully transmit that same delight to the viewer. George Johanson’s big show includes many new paintings from this year as […]
When you get all the way to the west coast, you almost feel like you’ve gone a little bit back east, lots of trees, rivers, prettiness. But you have to go through the REAL west to get to the west coast…and it is an elegant landscape in our state. Friday, the start of a promised […]
There is no doubt about it…it’s fall. Chilly mornings, clear bright sun, a little rain…a good season here in the Northwest…BUT, time to put the garden to bed. We’ve been weeding, pruning, tossing stuff in the garden bin like crazy… …though in one little corner the geraniums and begonias seem blissfully unaware… Today, very early, […]
Sometimes you just have to sit on your hands and let it all roll over you…in a good way. Friday night was the Sponenburgh Lecture for 2014 at Willamette University…this time a favorite son. Adam Stennett graduated from Willamette in 1994 and two weeks later he was in New York City seeking his fortune as […]
As my quilting “practice” takes up more space in my life, things shift and change a little (art is still number one though…new studio coming on line in October!). I find I really like having a “vintage” quilt to work on…off and on…and this weekend I finished up the quilt-top I got in Tennessee a […]
Last weekend we stayed at the wonderful Wave Crest in Cannon Beach, being lovers of the authentic Oregon experience, and it was fun. When owner (Daryl)Hank Johnson was a Portlander (curator at the Washington Park Rose Garden) he often stayed at the Wave Crest, and then just up and bought it from his retiring friends […]
Lots is going on in the person-manipulated natural world today in Salem. First a visit to Gaiety Hollow, the Lord and Schryver home garden, where a crew of volunteers were putting down newspaper mulch in an effort to tame the hideous aegopodium…a nasty weed. on to Martha’s where Big Trees Today (I love them, they […]
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