In 2012 I went to Fort Bragg, California, to make art with my friend artist Carolyn Schneider, and to put up a show called “Art Laundry” at the Lost Coast Culture Machine Gallery. We had fun, worked hard, and the show was a success and held over for another month. Carolyn discovered her latent desire […]
Last night was the annual Clay Ball art auction to benefit the Salem Art Association. Money was raised, art changed hands, friends were greeted… But the fun this year was the hats…glamorous or fanciful… some chose to wear “virtual” hats…(including Clay Ball originator Mary Lou Zeek who was thinking about her upcoming pop-up art show […]
Opening tonight of a nice group show at SAA’s A.N.Bush gallery featuring various spins on the theme “Cabinet of Curiosities”…drawings, cabinets of stuff, photos, stuffed animals (taxidermy is very big these days) 9 or 10 artists, nice work, too much to meaningfully photograph. Better go take a look as it’s up until February 22. What […]
A nice way to coast down the slope of old year is to visit a studio…most especially the studio of an industrious worker. I’ve written about Jon Colburn before here and here, but haven’t visited his studio in a while. The studio is deep in the back garden and Arvo was outside to greet me…well […]
Today was the first day of the three studio weeks at Project Space in 2013… and this morning the space at 365 Ferry Street SE was empty…with only master lighting/engineering trouble shooter Phil Krug there… but slowly the artists began to arrive and set up…Ann Kresge (here with technician Mike Nord): Deanna White: ME: Rollie […]
Monday…I went down to Project Space to get set up…open hours begin Tuesday (11-2, Tuesday through Saturday). It was bliss locked in there all by myself…now that Phil has put in the lights… The artists have begun to arrive and set up work spaces…little by little we are “claiming” the space anew… So I set […]
I had a great one and am wishing all my motherly readers did too. Mine began with breakfast on the deck while I contemplated the Tennessee Goodwill shirts…hmmm….hard to image the quilt this will become… flowers were brought from the Dad in question… and when I went to get the mail I noticed a photo […]
Our quilt show “Bits and Pieces” opened Friday night…and it was total fun. As you come up the stairs we see Kay Worthington’s quilt, and then into the gallery with Andrea Balosky’s huge Dahlia Rag at the far end… LeeAnn’s quilts looked smashing, and Local quilter Joanna Price was excited to have a piece in […]
Home after a terrific beach sojourn…and I had to get a coffee immediately…of course… This morning after a lovely breakfast at Nan’s I headed over to Bush Barn to see how the show was coming…yesterday they painted the two walls red, as Kate and I had wanted, and today the quilts were going up… Here’s […]
The Bush House conservatory was built in 1882…the oldest in the Pacific Northwest. It was built by Mr. Bush for his daughters Sally and Eugenia and was built of brick with a concrete veneer. There was no foundation for the original building and it was first heated with a wood stove. In the 1930’s a […]
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