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Checking in with Jon Colburn
I’ve written a lot about Jon Colburn and visited his studio many times, since his partner is my long-time friend and garden mentor Irene Longaker. The other day R and I were in the PNAA (Pacific...
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George Rodriguez and John Stahl
Two exhibits open this weekend at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. We got to preview the fantastic George Rodriguez show during installation the other day and really…this shouldn’t be missed. The scale...
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Celebrating the Local
As Covid-19 surges once again, cutting us off from ease of viewing and motion, we are particularly grateful for three exhibits in Salem of the work of three very different but talented artists from...
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Quiltopia!
This Friday and Saturday (November 5th and 6th) the Willamette Heritage Center (1313 SE Mill St SE) will be hosting Quiltopia, 2021. Like everything else, the popular annual exhibit was cancelled in...
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Keeping in Touch
A few years ago I bought some cards from MOMA. I ordered a box of cards by the artist Louise Bourgeois called “What is the Shape of this Problem?” But when the cards arrived, there were two boxes of...
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SHOWING UP
Well a lot has happened since I addressed this blog. I’m out of the habit of musing (except internally). In early October The funny, thoughtful, handsome and gifted Roger Hull left this world after a...
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Bird Book
My friend Christine is an artist, a long-time teacher, a good listener. A friend. We’ve been drawing together for years, over lunch at hers or mine. We know a lot of each other’s stories, the same...
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Notes to Myself
Yesterday I found this box in the studio…while searching for something else. I’d forgotten about this series of collages I made sometime in the last decade…using old photos and other bits and bobs. I...
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“The Snail Blog – Keeping in Touch”
Last night was the opening for an exhibition/installation at the Salem Art Association’s Focus Gallery, a long time in the making…16 years to be exact. It is some of the 5000+ postcards I’ve received...
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The “Before Stories”
In April my long time friend Carolyn drove from California north to Playa retreat in Summerlake, Oregon. I drove south to same from Salem and we spent five wonderful days, talking, laughing, working...
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