Marie Watt’s show “Lodge” is starting to take shape over at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art today…I dropped by to check on the piece “Dwelling” that a bunch of us worked on this month. I thought you might like to see it coming together… Today there were stacks of blankets as yet unwrapped, and […]
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“Dwelling”..Day 3
Here is a group of intrepid women… L to R: Sharon Rose, Irene Mylan, Martha Curry, Cindy Pentony, Maya Close and Melinda Woodward. (Not pictured were Sara Swanborn, Irene Longaker, Cynthia Wilcox, Bonnie Schulte, and Penny Unverzagt.) These women helped sew and deliver 164 blankets (in three days!!) to the Hallie Ford Museum… with new […]
“Dwelling”…Day 2
We were back at it today…our intrepid little band of volunteers… (Irene on the left, Cyndy in the center, Sharon on the right, Martha stepped out for a phone call…Melinda was pinning out front)…trying to add more blankets to Marie Watt’s stash for the piece “Dwelling” to be in her upcoming show… Interesting facts we […]
“Dwelling”
Artist Marie Watt will be featured in a mid-career retrospective show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, opening February 4, 2012. As she is not able to come out west for the installation process, I volunteered, with Sharon Rose, to help get colorful bindings sewn on some 150 blankets for one of the pieces […]
Patterns: Quilts and Gardens
My curatorial career is coming to it’s apex this week while both shows I have recently curated are on view (“Lord and Schryver” at the Hallie Ford Museum…closing September 18th… and “Bits and Pieces” at Salem Art Association’s AN Bush Gallery, up until mid October). Roger suggested this morning that there are certain similarities between […]
Marie Watt…revisited…
I was thinking about Marie Watt today, and the fun I had in the fall of 2009 working with people in the Willamette community to help put together a piece that would eventually hang in Ford Hall on campus (she set it up like a “quilting bee” and students, administrators, and “others”…like me…came) that’s Marie […]
Marie Watt and Ford Hall
Today a new classroom building (oops–I didn’t photo the building) was dedicated on the Willamette campus. The building was built with funding from major benefactor Hallie Ford and her portrait (by Portland artist Paul Missal) hangs in the lobby: Today, though, I wasn’t there to attend the ceremony, but rather to join artist Marie Watt’s […]
FANNY BLACK HULL/MARIE WATT
Last winter Portland artist Marie Watt put out a call to men of her acquaintance to send her pictures of their mothers, or of a woman they thought needed to be remembered, for a piece she was working on. Roger forwarded a photo of his mother holding him in a long ago train station. Saturday […]
