We made the rounds yesterday…a little anti-war or post 9-11 show at the Gretchen Shuette Gallery at the community college had some nice pieces from other shows this decade including one of April Water’s big women (Cindy Sheehan in this case) this nice piece done by Rob Bibler and Carol Hausser for an anti-war show […]
Tag: Mary Lou Zeek Gallery
Happy Birthday!!!
Today was R’s birthday and we managed to pack in QUITE a bit. We left the beach early in a downpour and grabbed a quick bite at Starbbucks where we discovered the answer to the question “Where does Santa Claus really live…” Answer: Lincoln City…and he has coffee at Starbucks Zoomed back to Salem to […]
Think Local…Shop Local
Okay friends–the last two years I’ve posted about shopping local, following a local elf in Salem stores. This year, more than other years, our wonderful local merchants need your “custom.” I’m doing creative re-gifting this year so I’m not even shopping, but just want to remind you of The Arbor, Ma Valise, Ranch Records, Mary […]
Mary Lou Zeek Space Two
The new space opened up last night with a show of the work of painter John Vandreal who mentored Willamette Student Rachel Sabin in the art of oil painting. Mary Lou and Alan (mostly Alan on the building front…) have built a new space for special exhibitions and the space was jammed last night and […]
First Wednesday
First Wednesday downtown was “dog week” this month. Since the newspaper carried numerous pictures of dogs and NO pictures of art, I’ll skip right to the art. Artist Kay Worthington was the featured artist at The Arbor on State, showing her wonderful small, imaginative, and sculptural pieces as well as some pretty terrific tables she […]
Living the Creative Life: Laura Mack
Our small group of collaborators for Project Space 2 met this week to create our statement. Corrie, Paula and I descended on Laura’s house and after some buckwheat pancakes we considered our plight. Just before we left Laura gave us the studio tour of her new studio, built last summer by her husband Phil. This […]
100 Artists
Last night was the opening of the annual 100 Artists show at the Mary Lou Zeek Gallery. Every year the gallery sends out something, a box, a piece of cardboard, this year a book–to 100 artists. The artists spend a couple of months making the “item” into art, and all 100 pieces go on view […]
Shop Local This Christmas
It isn’t just NYC that has great places to shop and eat. Today my shopper friend (the lovely Irene) and I started out in Salem and spent 4 hours doing our Christmas shopping without stepping into a “big box” or a chain restaurant. The day was total fun and we filled our shopping bags to […]
On The Way 