An intrepid band of the general public met today at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art to watch a video made in 2002 about Henk Pander and the painting of his 1982 portrait of Governor Tom McCall, and then to take walk over to the State Capitol Building to look at the painting. We were […]
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HENK PANDER/Opening, Lecture…
Two years of interviews, writing, thinking…and a lifetime of art making….all conjoined into one evening, one wonderful and interesting evening: Tulips everywhere in preparation for Henk’s arrival: But first: …and we’re off and running… …and a little bit of a family occasion for us with our son and his partner and two of my brothers […]
Henk Pander at the Hallie Ford Museum
Just a reminder that the Henk Pander show opens January 28th at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, with a lecture on Pander’s work by Roger Hull at 5:00 that day in the Paulus lecture hall at the Law School (1 block from the museum): the water colors and drawings went on view […]
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 […]
Sweet Miscellany…
At the beach we sort of wander through a day and what happens, well…happens. Today we saw this adorable small building looking like a combo of the old west and Amsterdam (tho destined to be a coffee drive-through I fear), some deers wandering through a neighborhood of homes where nobody lives trimming the wisteria a […]
Graduation Day, at Last:
Okay readers…this is it…the last post on the Roger Hull retirement festival. But what a ride it was. Here’s Roger’s advice to graduating seniors (and now he, too, is a member of the class of 2010…as is Scott Simon…) as published in the student paper (“The Collegian”) this week: And so today I sat in […]
The “Hullabaloo”
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 […]
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 […]
Living the Creative Life: Roger Hull
Roger Hull has conducted a creative academic life at Willamette University for 40 years, arriving from Chicago in 1970. For 34 of those years he’s held forth in the building at the corner of State and Winter streets. This spring he’s closing down shop in the art building, and beginning to shift his thinking to […]
“The Mountain and the Metropolis”
Zoomed up to Tacoma Friday evening and checked in to the lovely Hotel Murano. Because of the proximity to the Glass Museum and being in Chihuly-land, the museum is filled with glass work of varying kinds: We were there for Roger to give a talk in conjunction with a current show at the Tacoma Art […]
On The Way 