What a weekend. The Roger Hull retirement festival (known here at home as the “Hullabaloo”) provided pure fun, reunions with friends and family, a tear or two, a nice goodbye. Well not goodbye really…his curatorial career continues…but goodbye to the classroom. As I stood in the back of the packed room I did reflect […]
Tag: George Johanson
Roger and George
George Johanson has been painting Roger’s portrait. The painting will be unveiled on May 7th here in Salem at the “Hullabaloo” celebrating Roger’s 40 years of teaching. Yesterday we went up to Portland to check progress on the painting. Since I’m sworn to secrecy, I had to, well—OBSCURE– some aspects of the painting. Like all […]
George Johanson at OCAC
Went up to the Hoffman Gallery at the Oregon College of Arts and Crafts today to see a show of George’s tiled pieces. They are elegantly composed and filled with great details telling us the loveliness of living on the rivers in Portland: the “figure” (Roger) is there so you can see the size of […]
Living the Creative Life: George Johanson at PAM
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the PNCA (Pacific NW College of Art–formerly the Museum School) George Johanson did a demonstration yesterday in the Museum. There was jazz (a bass and a guitar) and George drawing for two hours. Very mellow, very fun. Here’s how it looked: George explains the excercise. the crowd pays […]
Harry Widman: The Gala
Friday night was the opening of the Harry Widman retrospective, “Harry Widman: Image, Myth, and Modernism,” at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem. The show is wonderful and will be up until March 29, 2009–go take a look. The Hallie Ford Museum is located at 700 State Street in Salem, easy find at […]
Lunch at the Johanson’s
After breakfast we jumped into the car and zoomed to Portland for lunch with George and Phyllis. Sitting at the kitchen table eating soup and talking about cave art, inaugurations, snow storms, etc. I had to remark anew on the “valentines” that line the window sill (all made by George): After our wonderful cabbage soup […]
On The Way 