Phew…it was a race this week, but we managed. Martha and I blasted to Portland on an errand yesterday and got to PDX just as Ryan Wilson Paulsen was in the gallery and gave us some chat about his current show with his wife Anna Gray (up at PDX until November 30th). I’ve admired their […]
Tag: Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Checking In-Checking Out
Busy week here with the usual wide variety of things to think about. We headed to White Salmon Wednesday for a night in the Mt. Hood room and a George Domijan dinner…plus a huckleberry G&T… Then all four of us took off for Madras for my opening. We ran into an amazing storm combination…thunder, rain […]
Summer at the Hallie Ford Museum…
We went to the museum this morning to see the new show of Jacob Lawrence’s illustrations of Aesop’s Fables which opened August 3rd and runs through October 27th. The drawings were done in the late 1960’s for a book of the fables, the originals now part of the Paul G. Allen Family Collection. They are […]
The Week in Review …
(leaving out all politics…). After a stormy beach weekend we returned Monday to the chaos of home renovation…the week brought a new floor, paint, and the shower tile going in…here are the visuals: Friday I took a break and headed over to pick up Jon and Irene and head out for lunch to the MIG […]
Week’s Worth
Not a momentous week, but like most of our weeks, filled with the lovely variety of things that make our lives…here’s what I’ve been up to: Check this out people…every Tuesday in May conservationist Tom Fuller will be working on the Hallie Ford Museum of Art’s native basket collection in the lobby so you can […]
Manuel Izquierdo: Farewell
Only three more days to get down to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art to see the Manuel Izquierdo Show. To celebrate the end of the show curator Roger Hull will moderate a panel of four regional sculptors at the museum on Sunday March 24th at 2:00 p.m., talking about Manuel and his work. As […]
Saturday Catch-up…
Wow… a busy three days have zoomed by over here in the far west. In chronological order (I’m influenced by an art historian here…) it looked like this…celebrate Jim’s birthday (and it was a major one…) have breakfast with artists…good talk, good breakfast… go get LAST (5th) cast removed, into “the boot”, and actually SEE […]
Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Friday is Member Appreciation Day at the Hallie Ford Museum of art. There will be tours and chats and food…it will be fun. This little museum takes the art of Oregon and our region very seriously, producing many wonderful shows every year of work in and out of our region…and if you aren’t already a […]
A museum weekend…
It was a museum weekend for our house…I’m sure you’ve seen the new banner installed on the west side of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art… and Saturday our family came down to see the show…Bruce and LeeAnn from Seattle, Doug, Marie, Emma and Finley from Portland, and Z & A. …and then home for […]
Curatorial Notes: Izquierdo
Got out of jail again today….off to the museum where Roger Hull had to sign copies of the book…one for each donor to the publication fund… It went like this… and then we got to go take a peek at the show…everything is there but not in final position…it’s a forest of sculpture and quite […]