Actually we probably don’t have Fall Trip #2 planned, but it WAS the first sunny and bright week of Fall, so we took off for a short adventure with Jon and Irene to Astoria. We made a few stops along the way including the Jacobsen Salt works on Netarts Bay… where we did a little […]
August already??? What about all the summer stuff I was going to do and all the posts I was going to write… In deciding I write about Portland artists too much, we went (in July) to see DE May’s show at PDX Gallery and across the street to see Natalie Laswell’s piece at Blackfish Gallery…both […]
My friend Rex (who prefers to remain AnonyMOuS) told me he was trying to lower his blood pressure by writing a poem with his opposing hand (in his case his right) while taking his BP on his left. Rex often does things like this…he’s a trickster of sorts. Anyway I got thinking about drawing with […]
Francis John Newton was a curator at the Portland Art Museum from 1953 to 1960. In 1960 he became Director of the museum until he retired in 1975. He was very involved in the Portland art community, and well remembered. We came to Oregon in 1970 and as “new kids from a different neighborhood (Salem)” […]
Friday was a day of looking at other people’s art…at last. It started early with a visit to the studios of the six senior art majors at Willamette University who are midway in the process of preparing their senior show, opening in April 2016. All six seemed motivated, excited about their work and certain about […]
What a week…I narrowly survived the festivities! It’s been foggy…R got this amazing picture the other day…down by the river… I got a tour of the new Children’s Room remodel at the Salem Public Library… was on a panel for city club talking about interesting places in Salem, places of community…(with stellar panelists Sarah Evans, […]
You still have 4 days to get over to 12X16 Gallery to see the work of Rex Amos, showing with Eunice Parsons. His elegant chine colles, assemblages and meticulously cut collages are wonderful…and the play between Rex’s work and Eunice’s work is fascinating and fun. Rex showed last year at the Hallie Ford in a […]
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 […]
A pretty varied week in these parts with two delicious sunny days as a surprise between rain storms…the Minto bike ride is delightful zooming through the falling leaves… and, of course, there has to be coffee… but this week there was also a surprise from the past. When we visited the site of the old […]
Yesterday was “Bloomsday” when all over the world (but most especially in Dublin) devotees of James Joyce celebrate the master. Salem probably was never one of the hot beds of celebration historically, but when combined with the opening of Rex Amos’ show of collage, chine colle and ephemera at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, […]
On The Way 