My last birthday celebration was today, for this year anyway…a delicious lunch, a beautiful pavlova, and a present that matched my outfit… and after laughing a lot and giving my heartfelt thanks, we whisked away to Portland. David Savinar of the Rain Agency and President of the Maryhill Museum board, along with trustees Anne […]
Tag: Sculpture
William Park, Kristin Kuhns, Cynthia Spencer
I went to Linn Benton Community College in Albany the other day to the opening of their annual invitational show. Each faculty member invites the artist of their choice to participate. Kristin Kuhns (Salem), William Park (Portland), and Cynthia Spencer (Corvallis) were all going to be there talking about their work…and I really like to […]
Marie Watt/Project Space/Tour of Homes
This seems to be the week for odd splices on this blog…bear with me (as Mark Siegel used to say…). Brooklyn artist/sculptor Marie Watt is doing a specific blanket piece for the Hallie Ford Museum of Art here in Salem. To that end I’m donating a family blanket to the project. Each blanket will have […]
Happy Birthday Harry!
We started Sunday at the beach… but quickly jumped in the car, and headed home to get ready for Harry’s 84th birthday party. LUCKILY I can sew in the car (…and no, I wasn’t driving…) I’m still working on the spring quilt…trying to finish before summer gets here! The sky was so beautiful today…. We […]
Manuel Izquierdo: Farewell
Only three more days to get down to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art to see the Manuel Izquierdo Show. To celebrate the end of the show curator Roger Hull will moderate a panel of four regional sculptors at the museum on Sunday March 24th at 2:00 p.m., talking about Manuel and his work. As […]
Curatorial Notes: Izquierdo
Got out of jail again today….off to the museum where Roger Hull had to sign copies of the book…one for each donor to the publication fund… It went like this… and then we got to go take a peek at the show…everything is there but not in final position…it’s a forest of sculpture and quite […]
Manuel Izquierdo: Almost Ready
Meanwhile, over at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the Manuel Izquierdo sculpture show (“Myth, Nature and Renewal”) that R has been working on for most of 2 years, is coming together at a rapid pace, and is going to be stunning…here are a few “behind the scene photos… …and then today…TA DA…the book has […]
Manuel Izquierdo at the Hallie Ford Museum, Part 1
Part one of the Manuel Izquierdo show is up at the Hallie Ford Museum of art in the study gallery and the print study room upstairs. It will be up until mid-February, so you’ll have plenty of time to see the work. On January 18th the big main floor galleries will open with a retrospective […]
Public Art: ODOT
The Oregon Department of Transportation Building (originally built about 1950) underwent a renovation all year at Capitol and Center Streets, and we went by the other day to check it out. 1% of the cost of building or renovating a state building is spent on art for that building, which has resulted in a rich […]
Rick Bartow…The Poles
Rick Bartow spoke Friday at the Hallie Ford Museum of art about his recently installed commission at the Museum of the American Indian (part of the Smithsonian) on the Mall in Washington, D.C. I got some bad pictures of the slide show, but the talk was fascinating featuring Rick, his technical assistant John Bayner (?) […]
On The Way 