Wow…busy week around here…but kind of a miscellaneous week to make a narrative out of… It WAS a week with ART in it though…Elizabeth, Alex and I spent two days in Corrie’s summer studio (a generous offer on Corrie’s part)…she the first artist in residence whereby the CCC gallery is turned into a big studio […]
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Living the Creative Life: Claudia Cave, Ella Rhoades, Cynthia Spencer
On Monday the “Salem Tribe” (Heidi Preuss Grew, Kristin Kuhns, Corrie Loomis Dietz and me) went to the Corvallis Arts Center to see the drawing show “Making a Mark” which comes down May 18th. Though I have some drawings in the show and wanted feedback, really I was thinking they might all really like this […]
Living the Creative Life: Corrie Loomis-Dietz
Corrie lives in this nice Italianate house on the right… and her husband Curt is just putting the finishing touches on the workshop/garage (ground floor) and Corrie’s new studio space on the top floor…(the local Historic Landmarks Advisory Commission required them to make the windows smaller and offset the porch so the new building wouldn’t […]
“Tales From the Back Porch”
That’s the title of the Corrie Loomis-Dietz/Paula Portinga Booth show now on at George Fox University until October 21 in the Minthorne Gallery in the Hoover Academic Building on campus. Well worth a trip up to see it. Kay and I drove up today to hear Corrie and Paula talk about their work. The placed […]
PS3 Update…
Tuesday was a work day at PS3 with all five collaborators there at once (for few minutes…). Barbara brought a journal she found at the Goodwill it got me thinking of some small collages Paula found a color range that looked good and started working (you can see her foot and her shadow…) Sadie painted […]
Seminar at Corrie’s
This morning I went to Corrie Loomis-Dietz’s studio for some help with transfer printing for my new set of work. Corrie is the local rep for the excellent Golden Paint co.–the brand of acrylic I use. Corrie is always most willing to share her knowledge about materials and techniques, and her time, which I appreciate. […]
Living the Creative Life: Corrie Loomis-Dietz
Corrie was a photographer first, then a painter. She makes huge photo-transfers and then paints them. She lives in an old house they have almost finished restoring: Today Corrie hosted a few artists for a brunch to welcome the fall. The food was good, the talk lively. Of course the highlight was seeing Corrie’s studio. […]
On The Way 