Ancient and Medieval Lamps on Display at Hallie Ford Museum of Art

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University will present an exhibition of ancient and medieval lamps March 14 through May 17 in the Study Gallery.

Organized by Willamette Art History Professor Ann Nicgorski and Yale University Art Gallery curator Lisa Brody, From Hestia’s Sacred Fire to Christ’s Eternal Light will feature about 84 oil lamps from the Bogue Collection at the Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University.

Brody will deliver a free lecture, “Illuminating Art: The Study of Ancient Lamps,” March 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Paulus Lecture Hall (Room 201) at the Willamette University College of Law. Her lecture is co-sponsored by the Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. A full-color brochure on the Bogue Collection will also accompany the exhibition.

Oil lamps were essential objects of daily life in ancient and medieval times, and every household would have owned several to illuminate their interior spaces. Like other ceramics, the simplest oil lamps were plain and purely functional, while others contained ornamental and figural relief scenes, often taken from mythological or religious contexts.

The lamps in the exhibition will reflect a diversity of cultures and a wide variety of materials and techniques. The lamps, which range in date from 3,000 BCE to the Medieval/Arab periods, were acquired by Robert Bogue when he worked for the World Health Organization in Egypt. He gave them to the Middle East Studies Center at Portland State in 1962.

The exhibition is supported by grants from the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology at Willamette University, the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information call (503) 370-6855.

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Widman Exhibition Includes Gallery Talks, Teacher Workshop

In conjunction with its exhibition Harry Widman: Image, Myth, and Modernism, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University has planned free gallery talks and a workshop for teachers interested in bringing their classes to the exhibition.

The gallery talks are Tuesdays, Feb. 3 through March 24, from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Talks are presented by museum docents or Elizabeth Garrison, the Cameron Paulin Curator of Education.

Garrison will lead the teacher workshop Feb. 4 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the museum. The workshop helps teachers prepare students for visiting the museum and touring the exhibition, and proposes ideas that reinforce the gallery experience and broaden curriculum concepts back in the classroom. Admission to the workshop is free, but advance registration is required by calling (503) 370-6855.

Garrison has written a teacher guide on Widman that will be available Feb. 4 online at www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

Harry Widman: Image, Myth, and Modernism chronicles the life of this highly regarded Portland painter and teacher who taught for 36 years at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (formerly the Portland Art Museum School). The exhibition runs from Jan. 31 through March 29.

The exhibition is supported in part by grants from the City of Salem Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Mondays. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Museum Features Prominent Portland Painter

An exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Harry Widman, a highly regarded Portland painter and teacher, will be on display Jan. 31 through March 29 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Organized by Willamette art history Professor Roger Hull, Harry Widman: Image, Myth, and Modernism surveys the career of Widman over the past 60 years, from his college days to his most recent work. Widman taught for 36 years at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (formerly the Portland Art Museum School) and served as interim dean during a critical period in the college’s history.

As a special feature, Hull will deliver a free lecture on Widman’s career Jan. 30 from 5 to 6 p.m. in Cone Chapel, on the second floor of Waller Hall. A preview reception will follow from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. In addition, a 30-minute film on Widman, produced by Portland Community College, will be shown March 1 at 2:30 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the museum. The film will be followed by a presentation from producers Mark Andres, Prudence Roberts and Michael Annus about how the project was made and why such documents of Oregon artists are important. Admission is free.

The exhibition will feature 38 paintings and 17 works on paper drawn from public and private collections throughout the region, and will be accompanied by a full-color, 112-page book by Hull that attempts to place Widman and his artwork within the context of his times.

Born in Englewood, N.J., in 1929, Widman received his bachelor of fine arts degree from Syracuse University in 1951, and earned his master of fine arts degree from the University of Oregon in 1956. Responding to the work of artists as diverse as Wassily Kandinsky and Robert Motherwell, Widman forged a mature style that combined an abstract vocabulary and sensibility with social and political commentary.

Harry Widman: Image, Myth, and Modernism is supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Mondays. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Photography Exhibition Portrays Northwest Artists

A small exhibition of portraits by Mary Randlett, a Washington photographer who has documented some of the most prominent artists, writers, poets and thinkers in the Pacific Northwest, will be on display Jan. 10 through March 8 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Organized by Museum Director John Olbrantz, Mary Randlett: Artist Portraits will feature Oregon artists who were active in the early 1970s and were photographed by Randlett in 1971–72. Included in the exhibition are portraits of Carl and Hilda Morris, Louie Bunce, Michele Russo, Sally Haley, Mel Katz, Frank Okada and a host of other legendary painters and sculptors who have enriched the Oregon art scene.

Mary Randlett: Artist Portraits is supported by grants from the city of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Mondays. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Last chance to see The Art of Ceremony in Salem

Only one month remains to see The Art of Ceremony: Regalia of Native Oregon at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. This exhibition of historical and contemporary ceremonial regalia from Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes closes Jan. 18.

“For those who want to see a superb exhibition of ceremonial regalia from both western and eastern Oregon, The Art of Ceremony should not be missed,” museum Director John Olbrantz said.

Organized by Willamette Professor Rebecca Dobkins in partnership with tribal leaders, artists and collectors, the exhibition is designed to introduce nontribal audiences to the history, beauty and function of regalia within tribal life and thought. Hand-crafted dance outfits, jewelry, staffs, headdresses, musical instruments and a 21-foot cedar canoe are among the items on display. The Oregon Arts Commission selected the exhibition as Oregon’s 2008 National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces Project.

Once the exhibition closes in Salem, it travels to the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute in Pendleton, Ore., Feb. 20 through May 28, and the Museum at Warm Springs in central Oregon, June 26 through Sept. 12.

In addition to the American Masterpieces grant, the exhibition is supported by an endowment gift from The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde through the Spirit Mountain Community Fund, who recently awarded an additional $25,000 grant to help finance exhibition costs and educational collaboration with Willamette Academy, Willamette University’s college preparatory program for local underrepresented high school students. Other support includes a Millicent McIntosh Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, a Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution Fund award, and grants from the city of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds, the Oregon Arts Commission and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

NOTE: The Hallie Ford Museum of Art will be closed Dec. 24 through Jan. 5 for winter break.

The museum is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Mondays. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Museum Exhibits Work of Salem Mixed Media Artist

A small exhibition of mixed media constructions and notebooks from D.E. May, a nationally recognized Salem artist who creates mixed media works from cardboard, paper and other found material, is on display now through Dec. 21 in the Print Study Center at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Organized by artist Dan May and Willamette art history student Alisa Alexander, under the guidance and direction of Professor Roger Hull, D.E. May: The Artist as Archivist represents the second time May has shown his work at the Hallie Ford Museum and the first time he has shown in the Print Study Center, his favorite space in the building.

The exhibition features about two dozen works drawn from local and regional collections, including several large ephemera installations. May’s work conjures many rich and varied associations that are at times obvious and at other times elusive and ethereal.

The exhibition is supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Art Scholar Discusses Native American Regalia

Willamette University Anthropology Professor Rebecca Dobkins, curator of the exhibition The Art of Ceremony: Regalia of Native Oregon, will discuss the state’s historical and contemporary ceremonial Native American regalia in a free lecture Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. in the Paulus Lecture Hall at Willamette University College of Law.

The lecture, co-sponsored by the Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, is presented in conjunction with The Art of Ceremony, on display through Jan. 18 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. The exhibition features historical and contemporary ceremonial regalia from all nine of Oregon’s federally recognized tribes, much of which has never been seen by the general public. The exhibition introduces non-tribal audiences to the history, beauty and function of regalia within tribal life and thought.

Dobkins holds a bachelor of arts degree in women’s studies from the University of Massachusetts and a master of arts and PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, where she specialized in Native American art and culture. Dobkins is faculty curator of Native American Art at the museum, and she is the author of numerous articles and books on the topic. Dobkins has curated 13 other Native art exhibitions for the museum, featuring Rick Bartow, Lillian Pitt, James Lavadour and Maori weavings from New Zealand, among others.

The Oregon Arts Commission, with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, selected The Art of Ceremony: Regalia of Native Oregon as the state’s 2008 American Masterpieces project. Additional support has been provided by an endowment gift from The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde through the Spirit Mountain Community Fund, and by grants from the Siletz Tribal Charitable Fund, the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds, the Oregon Arts Commission, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and a Millicent McIntosh Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Mondays. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesdays are admission-free. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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Native American Prints Featured at Hallie Ford Museum of Art

An exhibition of contemporary prints, created by Native American artists at the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts on the Umatilla Reservation in northeastern Oregon, is on display Oct. 11 through Dec. 21 in the Study Gallery at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

As a special feature, artists George Flett and Jeremy Red Star Wolf, both featured in the exhibition, will discuss their work in a free lecture Nov. 8 from 2–3 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the museum. A reception will follow in the lobby.

The Second Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Biennial, organized by faculty curator Rebecca Dobkins and Crow’s Shadow master printer Frank Janzen, features work created in the past few years by a wide variety of artists from throughout the U.S., including Rick Bartow, Phillip John Charette, George Flett, James Lavadour, Larry McNeil and Jeremy Red Star Wolf, among others. A number of printmaking techniques are represented, including lithography, woodcut and monotype.

Founded in 1992 by Native American painter and printmaker James Lavadour, the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts seeks to create educational and professional opportunities for Native American artists to use their art as a vehicle for economic development. Housed in the historic St. Andrew’s Mission schoolhouse, the facility features a state-of-the-art printmaking studio, classroom, computer lab, library and gallery space.

The exhibition is supported by an endowment gift from the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde through the Spirit Mountain Community Fund, and by the Indian Country Conversations Series at Willamette University. Additional support has been provided by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday–Saturday from 10 a.m.–5 p.m., and Sunday from 1–5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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Regalia Exhibition Includes Teacher Workshop and Gallery Talks

In conjunction with its fall exhibition, The Art of Ceremony: Regalia of Native Oregon, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University will host free gallery talks and a workshop for teachers interested in bringing their classes to see the exhibition.

Elizabeth Garrison, the museum’s Cameron Paulin Curator of Education, will teach the workshop Oct. 1 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the museum. The purpose is to help teachers prepare students for a field trip to the museum, develop strategies to tour the exhibition, and propose ideas that reinforce the gallery experience and broaden curriculum concepts back in the classroom. The workshop is free, but advance registration is required by calling (503) 370-6855.

The museum also will host a series of free gallery talks about the exhibition. Garrison or a museum docent will lead talks Tuesdays, Sept. 30 through Jan. 13, from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Willamette University students will present talks Saturdays in October from 1 to 1:30 p.m.

The Art of Ceremony: Regalia of Native Oregon, on display Sept. 28 through Jan. 18, is a major exhibition of historic and contemporary regalia from all nine of Oregon’s federally recognized Native American tribes, much of which is rarely seen by the general public. Organized by Willamette Anthropology Professor Rebecca Dobkins in partnership with the tribes, the exhibition is designed to introduce non-tribal audiences to the history, beauty and function of regalia within tribal life and thought.

The Oregon Arts Commission, with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, selected the exhibition as the state’s 2008 American Masterpieces project. Additional support has been provided by an endowment gift from The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde through the Spirit Mountain Community Fund, and by grants from the Siletz Tribal Charitable Fund, the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds, the Oregon Arts Commission, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and a Millicent McIntosh Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Mondays. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesdays are admission-free. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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American Masterpieces Project Features Rarely Seen Native American Regalia

A groundbreaking exhibition of historic and contemporary ceremonial regalia from all nine of Oregon’s federally recognized Native American tribes, much of which is rarely seen by the general public, will be on display Sept. 27 to Jan. 18 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

The Art of Ceremony: Regalia of Native Oregon, Oregon’s 2008 American Masterpieces project, features what the tribes consider their finest artwork, items they wear and use in private ceremonies and rituals. Hand-crafted dance outfits, jewelry, staffs, headdresses, musical instruments and a 21-foot cedar canoe — many on loan from Native families across the state — are among the items to be displayed. The American Masterpieces grant was awarded by the Oregon Arts Commission with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

“Most people have never really seen Oregon’s traditional regalia,” said Willamette anthropology Professor Rebecca Dobkins, who organized the exhibition in collaboration with Native community curators. “The only time much of this regalia is worn is during private events like funerals, feasts or dance ceremonies. These items are not largely shared outside their community.”

A multitude of free public events will accompany the exhibition, starting with a Procession of Nations through campus at 3 p.m. Sept. 27 that will include members of all Oregon’s tribes. The procession will be followed by an opening ceremony at the museum and a traditional Native American feast on campus. Visitors can watch regalia-makers at work from 1 to 5 p.m. Sept. 28 at the museum. Tours, films, lectures and demonstrations are among the other events scheduled throughout the exhibition.

The Art of Ceremony will showcase the diversity of regalia between tribes, from the western tribes’ use of feathers and abalone shells to the eastern tribes’ beadwork and buckskin. After leaving the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the exhibition will travel to the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute in Pendleton, Ore., and the Museum at Warm Springs in central Oregon.

“A lot of people attend intertribal powwows and mistake what they see there as our traditional dances and regalia,” said Bud Lane, vice chairman of the tribal council for the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians on the central Oregon coast. “We want people to see that each tribe has its individual traditions and cultures that vary from region to region.”

In addition to the American Masterpieces grant, the exhibition is supported by an endowment gift from The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde through the Spirit Mountain Community Fund, a Millicent McIntosh Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, a Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution Fund award, and by grants from the city of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds, the Oregon Arts Commission and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. and Sunday from 1–5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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Museum Presents Pieces from Portland Collector

A small exhibition from the collection of Leo Michelson, a Portland resident and avid collector of contemporary art, will be on display Aug. 2 through Oct. 5 in the Study Gallery at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

The Collector’s Eye: Contemporary Art from the Leo Michelson Collection includes mostly works Michelson donated to the museum during the past 10 years. Artists featured in the exhibition include Rick Bartow, Judy Cooke, Baba Wague Diakite, James Lavadour, D.E. May, Fay Jones and James Thompson, among others. Visitors can meet Michelson in a free reception Saturday, Aug. 30, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the museum.

Born and raised in Texas, Michelson lived in California for many years and worked for ABC Studios in Los Angeles. He left ABC in 1986, traveled for several years and moved to Oregon in the early 1990s. Once settled in Portland, he began to buy contemporary art and has amassed a major collection of regional art, ranging from paintings and drawings to sculptures and prints.

The Collector’s Eye: Contemporary Art from the Leo Michelson Collection has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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Museum Hosts Retrospective by Seattle Painter

A major retrospective exhibition of work by Michael Dailey, a Seattle painter and influential professor emeritus at the University of Washington, opens June 7 and continues through Aug. 31 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Michael Dailey: Color, Light, Time, and Place was organized by museum Director John Olbrantz and features 20 paintings and 24 works on paper spanning a 45-year period. Works have been selected from public and private collections throughout the region.

Dailey and Olbrantz will discuss the artist’s life and work Friday, June 6, from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the museum, followed by a preview reception from 6 to 8 p.m. in the lobby and galleries downstairs. The exhibition will include a full-color, 48-page hardcover monograph, distributed by the University of Washington Press, with an essay by Robin Updike, former art critic for The Seattle Times.

Born and raised in Iowa, Dailey received his bachelor of arts and master of fine arts degrees from the University of Iowa and taught at the University of Washington from 1963 until his retirement in 1998. An abstract painter of tremendous skill and prowess who focuses on landscapes, Dailey has been featured in numerous one-person and group exhibitions during the past five decades.

Dailey’s early landscapes from the 1960s are big, expressionistic compositions of towering mountain peaks, dark forests and chiseled slabs of rock. By the early 1970s, his work became increasingly refined and abstracted as he sought to reduce the landscape to its basic elements of horizon, color, light and atmosphere. “By suggesting rather than defining,” he has written, “much is left for the viewer to imagine.”

His early work is reminiscent of the abstract expressionist painters Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning, but his work of the past 35 years reflects a number of diverse art historical sources: Chinese landscapes; Mark Rothko’s luminous, saturated color; and Piero della Francesca’s glowing light. Color and light are important elements of Dailey’s mature work.

Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the early 1970s, Dailey switched from oil to acrylic and gradually began to reduce the size of his canvases as it became increasingly difficult for him to paint on a large scale. In spite of his physical challenges, he has continued to make lush, sensuous and evocative landscapes that, in his words, “create the mood and presence of the landscape by means of atmospheric color and abstract form.”

The exhibition is supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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Exhibition Features Photos of Western Wilderness

A small exhibition of color photographs by Adam Bacher, a Portland photographer who captures the remote alpine regions and backcountry wilderness of the western U.S., will be on display May 24–July 27 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Adam Bacher: Earth, Water, and Sky will showcase an array of subjects photographed by Bacher, including the Oregon and Washington Cascades, the Sierra Nevada of California, the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho, the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming and the rugged terrain of Glacier National Park in Montana.

In conjunction with his exhibition, Bacher will deliver a free lecture about his work Thursday, June 12, at 7 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the museum. He also will offer a free nature photography workshop for adults Saturday, June 21, from 1–4 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall and at Bush’s Pasture Park. Enrollment in the workshop is limited to 15; pre-registration is required by calling (503) 370-6855.

Bacher was born, raised and educated in Michigan and came west to work on a PhD in international relations at the University of Oregon. He enrolled in a photography class at the university for fun, and it literally transformed his life. He abandoned his graduate study, took additional photography classes and has worked as a professional photographer ever since. Bacher has exhibited at the World Forestry Center and the Seges Art Gallery in Portland, and the governor’s office at the Oregon State Capital in Salem.

The exhibition is been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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Hallie Ford Museum of Art Announces 2008–09 Exhibitions

A wide variety of exhibitions are planned at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art for 2008–09, Museum Director John Olbrantz announced recently.

Major exhibitions scheduled for the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery include:

Michael Dailey: Color, Light, Time, and Place (June 7–Aug. 31). Michael Dailey is a Seattle abstract painter and professor emeritus from the University of Washington. His work focuses on the deconstruction of the landscape to its basic elements of horizon, color, light and atmosphere. The exhibition features 44 paintings and works on paper, spanning a 45-year period, drawn from public and private collections throughout the region.

The Art of Ceremony: Regalia of Native Oregon (Sept. 28, 2008–Jan. 18, 2009). This exhibition features historic and contemporary regalia from native Oregon, offering visitors a rare glimpse at the beauty, history and meaning of regalia in tribal life and thought. Included are objects made of buckskin and beadwork from the Plateau region of eastern Oregon, objects with condor feathers from the Columbia River Gorge, and objects with feather and abalone shell decoration from the Oregon Coast. The exhibition was chosen as Oregon’s 2008 American Masterpieces project and was awarded $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Harry Widman: Image, Myth, and Modernism (Jan. 31–March 29, 2009). Harry Widman is a Portland painter and professor emeritus from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. The exhibition surveys his career over a 60-year period in works that explore the possibility of a “meaningful shape” in abstract painting, the role myth can play in contemporary expression, and the interplay between the physical strength of the athlete and the intellectual delicacy of the poet or philosopher in expressionist modern art.

Senior Art Majors (April 11–May 17, 2009). Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior art and art history majors at Willamette. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, photography and mixed media. In addition, the exhibition features senior theses in art history.

James Thompson: The Vanishing Landscape (April 11–May 17, 2009). This exhibition focuses on a body of work that the artist has been developing for some time exploring the transformation of the rural western U.S. Thompson holds an MFA degree from Washington University in St. Louis and has been on the art faculty at Willamette University since 1986.

Smaller exhibitions scheduled for the Study Gallery include Adam Bacher: Earth, Water, and Sky (May 24–July 27); The Collector’s Eye: Contemporary Art from the Leo Michelson Collection (Aug. 2–Oct. 5); The Second Crow’s Shadow Institute for the Arts Biennial (Oct. 11–Dec. 21); Mary Randlett: Artist Portraits (Jan. 10–March 8, 2009); and From Hestia’s Sacred Fire to Christ’s Eternal Light: Ancient and Medieval Lamps from the Bogue Collection (March 14–May 17, 2009).

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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Exhibition Explores Artist’s Reaction to Apartheid

An exhibition of works by South African painter and sculptor Andries Fourie, the newest member of Willamette University’s art faculty, opens April 12 and will be on display through May 11 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.

Andries Fourie: Recent Work will be held in the Atrium Gallery and will coincide with the senior art majors exhibition in the Melvin-Henderson-Rubio Gallery. Fourie will give a free gallery talk about his work Tuesday, April 15, at 12:30 p.m. at the museum.

“Andries Fourie is doing some of the most exciting and thought-provoking work in the region,” Museum Director John Olbrantz said.

Fourie, of Afrikaner heritage, was born and raised in South Africa and educated in California as a painter and sculptor. He uses his art to address the horrors of war and the tragedy of apartheid. The exhibition will feature a range of work from the past few years, including such powerful recent works as “Asking the Ancestors for Answers” and “Denial’s Antidote.” Fourie joined the Willamette faculty in 2006.

Andries Fouries: Recent Work is supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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Prints Provide Views of 18th-century Rome

A small exhibition of prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, an 18th-century Italian etcher and archaeologist, opens March 22 and continues through May 18 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Organized by Ann Nicgorski, professor of art history at Willamette and faculty curator at the museum, Piranesi: Views of Rome will include a range of prints drawn from regional collections, including the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, Reed College, the Portland Art Museum and a private collector. The exhibition will include Piranesi’s “Arch of Titus” from the collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.

From 1748–74, Piranesi (1720–78) created his famous “Views of Rome,” a series of prints that depicted the eternal city’s majestic ruins and served for generations as the standard representations of Roman grandeur.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Marnie Stark, assistant curator of prints and drawings at the Portland Art Museum, will give a free lecture Thursday, April 3, at 7 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the museum. Stark will discuss Piranesi’s prints within the context of the Greco-Roman controversy in which French and German scholars dismissed Roman architecture and design as derivative and inferior to that of the Greeks.

Piranesi: Views of Rome is supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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Exhibition Explores Africa Through Prints

A small exhibition of African prints and related etching plates from Ashland painter and printmaker Betty LaDuke will be presented Jan. 19 through May 10 in the lobby and Print Study Center of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Betty LaDuke: Prints displays the artist’s longtime interest in the people and cultures of Africa. The daughter of Russian and Polish-Jewish immigrants, LaDuke focuses her work on multicultural issues and the international places she has visited during the past 40 years. Her African work portrays the color, texture and rhythms of African rural life, exploring universal themes such as creation myths, birth and death, food production and the spirit’s journey.

LaDuke traces her interest in other cultures to her work with African-American artists Charles White and Elizabeth Catlett, both of whom she credits as mentors and role models. LaDuke earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from California State University in Los Angeles. In 1964, she accepted a full-time faculty position at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, where she taught for 32 years.

Betty LaDuke: Prints is supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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Teacher Workshop, Gallery Talks Planned for Lavadour Exhibition

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University will host a series of free gallery talks and a workshop for teachers in conjunction with the exhibition James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint, on display Feb. 2 through March 30.

The workshop, for teachers interested in bringing their classes to see the exhibition, will be Feb. 5 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the museum. The workshop will help teachers prepare their students for a field trip to the museum, develop strategies to tour the exhibition and reinforce the gallery experience and broaden curriculum concepts back in the classroom.

Elizabeth Garrison, the museum’s Cameron Paulin Curator of Education, will teach the workshop. She has written a teacher guide that will be available after Feb. 6 at www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art. The workshop is free, although advance registration is required by calling (503) 370-6855.

Free gallery talks about the exhibition, presented by museum docents, will be every Tuesday, Feb. 5 through March 25, from 12:30 to 1 p.m. at the museum.

James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint features a range of recent work by this Native American painter and printmaker. Since 2000, Lavadour has focused intensely on the properties of paint, creating works that he describes as the intersections between his better-known landscapes and his lesser-known architectural structures.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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Museum Features Native American Painter

An exhibition of work by James Lavadour, a Native American painter and printmaker known for his exploration of landscape as both inspiration and subject, will be on display Feb. 2 through March 30 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint, organized by anthropology Professor Rebecca Dobkins, faculty curator of Native American art at the museum, examines the conceptual layers underlying Lavadour’s work of the past eight years. Since 2000, Lavadour has focused intensely on the properties of paint, creating works he describes as the intersections between his better-known landscapes and his lesser-known architectural structures.

The exhibition includes 12 works drawn from regional and national collections and will be accompanied by a full-color brochure. Once the exhibition closes in Salem, it will be displayed at the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute near Pendleton, Ore., from April 10 through June 10, and the Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Ore., from July 10 through Sept. 13.

A free forum and symposium are planned in Salem. The forum, “Art/Culture/Homeland: Voices from the Umatilla Reservation,” is Feb. 1 from 4 to 6 p.m. in Hudson Hall at Willamette and is part of the Indian Country Conversations series. It will introduce the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon, which is the home and inspiration for Lavadour, and address the tribes’ philosophy and strategies for sustainable community development.

Participants include Lavadour, founder of the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts on the reservation; Roberta “Bobbie” Conner, director of the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute; Antone Minthorn, chairman of the board of trustees for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR); and Donald Sampson, executive director of CTUIR. An opening reception at the museum will follow the forum.

The free symposium, “The Properties of Paint,” is March 13 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the museum. The event will bring artists and scientists together to discuss the material and philosophical properties of paint and the interconnections between art, geology, the environment, physics and human creativity. Participants include Lavadour and Willamette faculty members.

James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint is supported by an endowment gift from The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde through the Spirit Mountain Community Fund. Additional support was provided by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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West African Sculpture Featured at Museum

An exhibition of ritual objects found among the Yoruba people of West Africa opens Jan. 19 and is on display until March 16 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Organized by museum Director John Olbrantz, Yoruba Sculpture: Selections from the Mary Johnston Collection features 24 objects on loan from Johnston’s collection in Florence, Ore.

Special events connected to the exhibition include a free lecture and a film showing. Pam McClusky, curator of African and Oceanic art at the Seattle Art Museum, will give a free lecture on Yoruba sculpture Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. in the Paulus Lecture Hall at the College of Law. An evening of free films on Yoruba art and culture is scheduled for Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the museum.

The exhibition includes masks worn in various festivals and rituals, such as the Gelede and Egungun ceremonies; cult figures made of bronze and wood, including Shango wands and Ibeji figures; Dun Dun drums used in different ceremonies; an elaborately carved 8-foot house post; a king’s beaded crown; and an Egungun masquerade costume.

Mary Johnston, who holds degrees from the University of Oregon in anthropology and psychology, inherited the collection from her brother, who acquired it in Berlin, Germany in the early 1970s. She has devoted the past 20 years to studying the pieces.

Yoruba Sculpture: Selections from the Mary Johnston Collection has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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Native American Artist Featured at Museum

An exhibition of work by Don Bailey, a highly regarded painter and art teacher at Chemawa Indian School in Salem, opens Dec. 1 and continues through Jan. 13 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Don Bailey: Spider and the Bureau, The Blanket Series, organized by Professor Rebecca Dobkins, presents a new body of paintings created during the past four years that reframes the complex legacy that formal and informal institutions have had on Native American life. Bailey, a Hupa tribal member, was raised on the Hoopa Valley Reservation in California. For nearly 30 years, he has taught art at Chemawa Indian School, the oldest federal Indian boarding school in the U.S.

Bailey will give a free lecture about his work Friday, Nov. 30, from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the museum. A free reception follows from 6 to 8 p.m. in the lobby and galleries. A free full-color brochure with an essay by the artist and eight color illustrations accompanies the exhibition and will be available at the museum.

Don Bailey: Spider and the Bureau, The Blanket Series is supported through an endowment gift from the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, through the Spirit Mountain Community Fund. Additional support has been provided by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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Museum Showcases Work by Women Printmakers

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University will open a major exhibition of work by women printmakers Oct. 27. Women’s Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation will be on display until Jan. 20.

The exhibition presents a broad range of prints from the past 35 years by some of the foremost women printmakers at work in the U.S., Europe, Africa and Asia. Once the exhibition closes in January, it will travel to the Art Gym at Marylhurst University in spring 2008 and to several other venues in 2008 and 2009.

“This is the third major print exhibition that we have borrowed from Jordan, who continues to be a remarkable and amazing collector and donor,” says Museum Director John Olbrantz, who co-curated the exhibition with Marylhurst Art Gym Director Terri Hopkins.

The exhibition will include a full-color brochure by Robin Reisenfeld, an associate professor at Christie’s Education in New York and a leading authority on modern and contemporary printmaking. She will deliver a free lecture on contemporary women printmakers Friday, Oct. 26, at 5 p.m. in the Paulus Lecture Hall at Willamette’s Collins Legal Center. A free preview reception will follow from 6 to 8 p.m. in the lobby of the museum.

Included in the exhibition will be works by Anni Albers, Louise Nevelson, Louise Bourgeois, Suzanne Caporeal, Fay Jones, Judy Pfaff, Kiki Smith and Kara Walker, among others. A number of themes will be explored, including abstraction, humor and satire, race and gender, politics, and the environment.

Women’s Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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Museum Displays Work of Oregon Artist

A small selection of paintings of houses, farms, boathouses and other structure-like formations by Oregon artist Amanda Snyder will be on display Oct. 13 to Nov. 25 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Amanda Snyder: Structures features the work of Snyder (1894-1980), who is well known for her paintings of birds and clowns but whose works based on architectural structures are less frequently seen. Characterized by a strong sense for geometric form, vigorous brushwork and rich color, the works reflect the emotional intensity of this self-effacing and reclusive artist.

Organized by Willamette Professor Roger Hull and drawn from public and private collections throughout the region, the exhibition will be accompanied by a Hull-penned article on Snyder in the October issue of American Art Review.

Amanda Snyder: Structures has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

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Hallie Ford Museum of Art Exhibition Selected for Oregon American Masterpieces Grant

The Oregon Arts Commission has selected “The Art of Ceremony,” planned by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University in Salem, as Oregon’s 2008 American Masterpieces project. The commission has awarded the project a $50,000 grant using funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

“The Oregon Arts Commission reviewed many strong proposals in this second round of special American Masterpieces grant funding. 'The Art of Ceremony' project was selected because of its potential to show work rarely seen by the public and to examine the concept of a 'masterpiece,'" said Christine D’Arcy, executive director of the commission. “We are very pleased to announce this award.”

Organized by Willamette anthropology associate professor Rebecca Dobkins in collaboration with Native community curators, “The Art of Ceremony” will be a groundbreaking exhibition of and book about historic and contemporary ceremonial regalia from Oregon tribes.

“Ceremonial regalia is perhaps the most highly regarded art form within American Indian groups and thus truly represents an indigenous definition of master work,” Dobkins said. “‘The Art of Ceremony’ promises to contribute profoundly to the national conversation about what constitutes American art and American masterpieces. We are honored to be working in partnership with Oregon tribes on this project.”

Museum staff will work closely with the Siletz, Umatilla, Warm Springs and other Oregon tribes in the development of the exhibit, which will open at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in fall 2008 and then travel to the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute and the Museum at Warm Springs at no cost to those institutions. “We are extremely honored to have the exhibition selected as Oregon’s 2008 American Masterpieces project, excited to be able to work with Native communities on the exhibition’s development and thrilled to be able to share the exhibition with audiences throughout the state,” Museum Director John Olbrantz said.

The collaborative curatorial process will identify the complex aesthetic criteria by which regalia-makers judge their own and others’ work, apply these criteria to the selection of work for the exhibition, and then articulate them within the exhibition itself. In this way, the public will come to understand the multiple meanings of “masterpiece,” “beauty,” “excellence” and “innovation,” as expressed in Native community standards.

Regalia from Oregon is exceptionally diverse, from the Plateau area’s buckskin and beadwork, to the Columbia River region’s use of condor feathers, to the coastal area’s feather work and abalone shell decoration. “A lot of people attend intertribal events such as powwows and mistake what they see there as our traditional dances and regalia,” said Bud Lane, vice chairman of Siletz Tribal Council. “Each tribe has its own regalia and dances that go way back. We want people to see that each tribe has its individual traditions and cultures that vary from region to region.”

In all areas, regalia reflects environmental and cultural transformations and generates spiritual power and social status. The exhibition will include contemporary regalia from the Siletz, Umatilla and Warm Springs communities and borrow historic regalia from major American collections. “It’s extremely rare for the public to see this traditional regalia,” Lane said. “Outside of our dance houses, we don’t do many public appearances.”

A full array of public programming, including artist demonstrations and workshops, is envisioned. The accompanying book will be completed following the exhibit.

In addition to the NEA American Masterpieces grant, the project is supported by a Millicent McIntosh Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation granted to Rebecca Dobkins for 2007–09.

The Oregon Arts Commission provides leadership, funding and arts programs through its grants, special initiatives and services. Nine commissioners, appointed by the governor, determine arts needs and establish policies for public support of the arts. The commission is supported with general funds appropriated by the Oregon legislature and with federal funds from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as funds from the Oregon Cultural Trust. More information about the Oregon Arts Commission is available online at: www.oregonartscommission.org.

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Exhibition of 'Hybrid' Instruments Includes Concert, Sound Workshop

Film reel guitars, cowboy boot violins, axe cellos and Styrofoam packaging pianos are among the “hybrid” musical instruments that will be on display this summer at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. Ken Butler: Hybrid Visions, featuring 56 of the mixed media artist’s inventive and humorous instruments, opens June 9 and continues through Aug. 26.

Butler studied viola as a child and maintained an interest in music while studying art at Colorado College and Portland State University. He has shown and performed at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has been featured on PBS, CNN, MTV and NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno. His music and performances have been described as “Kurt Schwitters meets Rube Goldberg meets Laurie Anderson meets Miles Davis.”

In conjunction with the exhibition, Butler will lead a free sound workshop for youths (grades K–8) June 9 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the museum. He will show how simple instruments can be created from household objects, and participants will discover the relationship between sound, noise and music and hear their voices altered with electronic effects. Enrollment is limited to 25 students plus their parents, and pre-registration is required. To register, call (503) 370-6855.

Also on June 9, Butler will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. at the Historic Elsinore Theatre in Salem. The concert will be an evening of mesmerizing sounds and melodic grooves as Butler performs on an arsenal of amplified hybrid string instruments made from household objects and tools. Neil Strauss of The Village Voice has said of Butler, “It’s not just that Ken Butler knows how to bow stringed instrument parade rifles, play dental dams like trumpets and construct keyboards from aluminum crutches, it’s that he knows how to play them well.”

Admission to the concert is free to Hallie Ford Museum of Art and Historic Elsinore Theatre members, but a ticket is required at the door (tickets may be picked up at the museum or theatre). Tickets for non-members are $10 and may be purchased at the museum or theatre, or online at www.elsinoretheatre.com. The box office and doors open at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or (503) 375-3574.

Ken Butler: Hybrid Visions was organized in collaboration with the Art Gym at Marylhurst University. Local support for the exhibition was provided in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855 or go to www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

Please note that the concert and workshop scheduled for June 9 have been canceled due to health reasons. More Information

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Museum Presents Lecture, Discussion and Documentary Film

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University will present several free educational programs to help contextualize its exhibition When 6 WAS 9: Rock Posters from San Francisco, 1966-71, on display through Aug. 26.

All events are free and will be held in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the museum.

Salem collector Gary Westfjord, whose 56 posters are featured in the exhibition, will present a lecture June 8 from 5 to 6 p.m. on the history of rock posters during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The posters, used to promote concerts at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and Avalon Ballroom, were created by Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse and other major poster artists. They are characterized by their psychedelic colors and powerful imagery.

The documentary film “Monterey Pop” will be shown June 14 at 7 p.m. The film features the Monterey International Pop Festival, held in June 1967, which captured the mood, spirit and tempo of the 1960s and helped launch the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and others.

Bob Schnepf, a 1960s poster artist and longtime Portland resident featured in the exhibition, will participate in a roundtable discussion with Westfjord and Museum Director John Olbrantz on June 23 from 2 to 3 p.m. They will discuss the San Francisco music scene.

In addition to these programs, the Humanities and Communications Department/Film Studies Program at Chemeketa Community College and the Historic Elsinore Theatre in Salem will present “Altered States: The Cinema of the Sixties,” at the Elsinore during the summer months. For more information on films in that series, call (503) 375-3574 or visit www.elsinoretheatre.com.

When 6 WAS 9: Rock Posters from San Francisco, 1966-71 has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Exhibition of Rock Posters Marks Summer of Love Anniversary

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University will mark the 40th anniversary of the “Summer of Love” — when thousands of young people flocked to San Francisco for free love, drugs and rock ’n’ roll — with an exhibition featuring rock posters created in the Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s. When 6 WAS 9: Rock Posters from San Francisco, 1966-71, featuring 56 posters from the collection of Salem resident Gary Westfjord, will be on display May 26 to Aug. 26.

The museum will present a free lecture, roundtable discussion and film in conjunction with the exhibition. On June 8 from 5 to 6 p.m., Westfjord will give a lecture on the history of rock posters. The museum will show the documentary film “Monterey Pop” June 14 at 7 p.m. Poster artist Bob Schnepf, Westfjord and Museum Director John Olbrantz will have a roundtable discussion June 23 from 2 to 3 p.m. about the San Francisco music scene. All events are free and will be held in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the museum.

Included in the exhibition will be posters by major San Francisco poster artists of the period, including Rick Griffin, Alton Kelley, Bonnie Maclean, Stanley Mouse, Victor Moscoso, Bob Schnepf and Wes Wilson. These posters, remarkable for their strong design, psychedelic colors and powerful imagery, promoted concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom by such legendary performers as Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead and others.

Originally tacked on telephone poles and displayed in storefronts, the posters were commissioned by music impresarios Bill Graham and Chet Helms and were often given away at weekly concerts. In recent years their value as works of art has been firmly established as they have been featured in major exhibitions in San Diego, New York and elsewhere.

A companion exhibition, American Music Posters, 1935-2007, will be presented at the Bush Barn Art Center in Salem from July 6 to Aug. 5. The Bush Barn Art Center is located at 600 Mission St., in Bush’s Pasture Park. For more information, call (503) 581-2228.

When 6 WAS 9: Rock Posters from San Francisco, 1966-71 is supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Hallie Ford Museum of Art Announces 2007–08 Exhibitions

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University plans a wide variety of exhibitions for 2007–08, including musical instruments made from found objects, prints from contemporary women artists and works from a South African Willamette professor.

Major exhibitions scheduled for the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery are:

Ken Butler: Hybrid Visions (June 9–Aug. 26) features the work of this mixed media artist who creates inventive and humorous hybrid instruments from found objects, including film-reel guitars, cowboy boot violins, axe cellos and Styrofoam-packaging pianos. Organized in collaboration with The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, the exhibition will feature about 60 works on loan from the artist.

Women’s Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers from the Jordan Schnitzer Collection (Oct. 27–Jan. 20) includes prints by a number of female artists, including Anni Albers, Louise Nevelson, Louise Bourgeois, Suzanne Caporael, Fay Jones and Kara Walker. A wide variety of themes will be explored, including abstraction, humor and satire, politics, race and gender, and the environment.

James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint (Feb. 2–March 30) features the work of this nationally recognized Oregon artist known for his exploration of landscape as both inspiration and subject. Since 2000, Lavadour has focused on the properties of paint, creating works he describes as “intersections” between his better-known landscapes and his lesser-known abstract architectural structures. The exhibition will examine the conceptual layers underlying Lavadour’s work of the past eight years.

Senior Art Majors (April 12–May 11) showcases the work of senior art majors at Willamette. The exhibition includes painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, photography and mixed media. In addition, the exhibition features senior theses in art history.

Andries Fourie: Recent Work (April 12–May 11) will introduce audiences to the work of the newest member of the art faculty at Willamette. Born and raised in South Africa and educated in California as a painter and sculptor, Fourie’s work addresses the horrors of war and the tragedy of apartheid. The exhibition will feature a range of work from the past few years.

Smaller exhibitions scheduled for the Study Gallery include When 6 WAS 9: Rock Posters from San Francisco, 1966–71 (May 26–Aug. 26); Amanda Snyder: Structures (Oct. 13–Nov. 25); Don Bailey: Spider and the Bureau, The Blanket Series (Dec. 1–Jan. 13); Yoruba Sculpture: Selections from the Mary Johnston Collection (Jan. 19–March 16); and Piranesi: Views of Rome (March 22–May 18).

The museum will be closed Aug. 27 to Sept. 30 for renovation and will re-open Oct. 1.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Collector of Ancient Glass to Speak at Museum

Richard Brockway, director of Ancient Art International and one of the foremost collectors of ancient glass in the U.S., will present a lecture and slide show April 12 at 7 p.m. at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Brockway will speak about the history of ancient glass and the development of his collection. The event is free and will be held in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall.

Brockway received his bachelor of arts degree from Willamette University, his bachelor of science and master of science degrees from Stanford University, and did further graduate study at Harvard University. For nearly 30 years he worked as an engineer for GTE telephone company, and during that time he began to assemble his collection of antiquities, which includes ceramics, sculpture, mosaics, coins, glass and lamps from Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, China and Japan. His ancient glass collection is one of the finest private collections of its kind in the country.

Brockway’s lecture is in conjunction with Ancient Glass: Selections from the Richard Brockway Collection, an exhibition on display until May 20 at the museum. Organized by Director John Olbrantz, the exhibition features a range of ancient glass from 1500 BCE to the 6th century CE. Included in the exhibition are drinking vessels, tableware, toiletry vessels and other glass items from Egypt, the Near East, Greece and Rome.

Ancient Glass: Selections from the Richard Brockway Collection has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Museum Hosts Exhibition of Ancient Glass

An exhibition of ancient glass from 1500 BCE to the 6th century CE will be on display March 10 to May 19 in the Study Gallery at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Ancient Glass: Selections from the Richard Brockway Collection, organized by museum director John Olbrantz, features 46 pieces from the Richard Brockway collection, considered one of the finest private collections of ancient glass in the U.S.

Brockway is a 1957 graduate of Willamette University, a retired engineer with GTE telephone company and director of Ancient Art International. Brockway will present a slide show and lecture April 12 from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the museum.

Natural glass has existed since the beginning of time, formed when certain types of rocks melt as a result of volcanic eruptions, lightning strikes or the impact of meteorites, and subsequently cool and solidify. Early man is believed to have used cutting tools made of obsidian (a natural glass) to make primitive tools and weapons. According to the Roman historian Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE), Phoenician merchants were thought to have discovered glass on the Levantine Coast.

The Brockway collection features glass from Egypt, the Near East, Greece and Rome, including drinking vessels, tableware, toiletry vessels and a host of other glass items that demonstrate the ancient glass artists’ skill and mastery of glassmaking techniques. A wide variety of techniques are represented in the collection, including rod forming, core forming, mold casting, free blowing, mold blowing and pate de verre.

Ancient Glass: Selections from the Richard Brockway Collection has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call 503-370-6855.

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Museum Plans Lecture and Discussion on George Johanson

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University will present a lecture and discussion on artist George Johanson, who has been a major force in the Portland art scene for nearly 60 years. Both events are free and are in conjunction with the museum’s current exhibition, George Johanson: Image and Idea.

Prudence Roberts will present a slide show and lecture about Johanson as a printmaker, March 3 from 2 to 3 p.m. in the museum's Roger Hull Lecture Hall. Roberts is an art history instructor at Portland Community College and the author of numerous publications on regional art.

Curator Roger Hull will join Johanson to discuss his art and career, April 1 from 2 to 3 p.m. in the museum's Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery. Hull is a Willamette art history professor, curator of the Johanson exhibition and author of numerous monographs on regional artists, including Johanson, Carl Hall, Jan Zach and Charles Heaney.

George Johanson: Image and Idea chronicles the life and times of this distinguished Portland painter, printmaker and teacher whose work focuses on bathers, swimmers, artists and the streets and vistas of Portland, a place he has called home since the late 1940s. The exhibition is on display through April 1.

The exhibition has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem Transient Occupancy Tax and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Mondays. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information call (503) 370-6855.

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Museum to Host Teacher Workshop and Gallery Talks

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University will host free gallery talks and a workshop for teachers interested in bringing their classes to see the forthcoming exhibition George Johanson: Image and Idea.

Elizabeth Garrison, Cameron Paulin Curator of Education at the museum, will teach the workshop to help teachers prepare students for a field trip to the museum, develop strategies to tour the exhibition, and propose ideas that reinforce the gallery experience and broaden curriculum concepts back in the classroom. The free workshop is Feb. 7 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the museum. Advance registration is required by calling (503) 370-6855.

Garrison has written a teacher guide on Johanson that will be available online after Feb. 7 at the Hallie Ford Museum web site.

The museum also will host an ongoing series of free gallery talks on the exhibition every Tuesday, Feb. 6 to March 27, from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Gallery talks will be presented by Garrison or a museum docent.

George Johanson: Image and Idea chronicles the life and times of this distinguished Portland painter, printmaker and teacher whose work focuses on bathers, swimmers, artists, and the streets and vistas of Portland, a place he has called home since the late 1940s. The exhibition runs Feb. 3 through April 1.

The exhibition has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Mondays. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information call 503-370-6855.

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Museum Opens Exhibition by Portland Painter

A major retrospective of work by George Johanson — a distinguished Portland painter, printmaker and teacher whose work focuses on bathers, swimmers, artists and the streets and vistas of Portland — will open Feb. 3 and continue through April 1 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Organized by Professor Roger Hull, George Johanson: Image and Idea will trace the artist’s career over a 60-year time period and will feature 68 works drawn mostly from regional collections. The exhibition represents the first time Johanson has been honored with a major retrospective.

Several lectures are planned in conjunction with the exhibition. Hull will present a slide show and lecture about Johanson’s career Feb. 2 from 5 to 6 p.m. in Cone Chapel, on the second floor of Waller Hall. A preview reception will follow from 6 to 8 p.m. in the lobby and galleries of the museum. On March 3 from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the museum, Prudence Roberts will discuss Johanson’s work as a printmaker. Hull and Johanson will discuss the artist’s life and career April 1 from 2 to 3 p.m. at the museum.

Born in Seattle in 1928, Johanson attended the Portland Art Museum School in the late 1940s, where he studied with Oregon modernists Louis Bunce, William Givler, Jack McLarty and Michele Russo. Responding to the work of these artists as well as to the New York School and European avant garde, Johanson forged a mature style and range of imagery characterized by its graphic immediacy, intense coloration and exuberant figuration.

A full-color, 128-page book will be published in conjunction with the exhibition. The book will include an extensive essay by Hull and more than 110 color plates and black and white illustrations. In his essay, Hull will discuss the inter-textual nature of Johanson’s work and the significance of his subject matter. As with previous Hallie Ford Museum of Art publications, the Johanson book will be distributed through the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London.

George Johanson: Image and Idea is supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax Funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Mondays. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information call (503) 370-6855.

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John Van Dreal: Still Lifes and Figures

A small exhibition of work by Salem painter John Van Dreal will open Jan. 6 and continue through March 4 in the Study Gallery of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Organized by Director John Olbrantz in collaboration with the artist, John Van Dreal: Still Lifes and Figures will feature 13 works created in 2006 specifically for the exhibition. Van Dreal draws on Old Master techniques to create still lifes, landscapes and figures.

Born in Colorado in 1962 and raised in Southern California, Van Dreal began painting when he was 7 with instruction from his father, an accomplished watercolorist. He received his formal art education at Brigham Young University, where he earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in studio art and a master of education degree in educational psychology. In addition to his art, Van Dreal has worked for the past decade as a school psychologist with the Salem-Keizer School District.

Van Dreal has been featured in dozens of one-person and group exhibitions over the years and his work is a part of numerous public and private collections throughout the region, including the University of Portland, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, the State of Oregon and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, among others. He is a signature member of the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society.

Van Dreal paints from photographs and sketches, choosing to portray subjects such as still lifes, landscapes, and the human figure that have a rich history in Western art. A great admirer of the Dutch masters of the 17th and 18th centuries, he prefers oil paint because of its richness, luminosity and slow drying time, allowing him to work and re-work a piece until he is completely satisfied with it. Van Dreal has said he wants to create imagery that is evocative, intellectual and spiritual, rooted in the past but with a contemporary edge.

John Van Dreal: Still Lifes and Figures has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and, starting Jan. 7, Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Mondays. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information call (503) 370-6855.

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Museum Opens Exhibition of Seattle Painter

A major solo exhibition of work by Seattle narrative and symbolist painter Fay Jones will open Nov. 18 and continue through Jan. 20 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

In conjunction with the exhibition, titled Fay Jones: Painted Fictions, the artist will present a slide show and lecture about her work from 5 to 6 p.m. Nov. 17 in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the museum. A preview reception will follow from 6 to 8 p.m. in the lobby and galleries downstairs.

Organized by director John Olbrantz, the exhibition will include Jones’ work from the past 15 years from Portland and Seattle collections, including the Microsoft Corporation, the Tacoma Art Museum, Harsch Investments and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. Although Jones has shown in Portland since the late 1980s, the exhibition represents the first time a broad survey of her work has been seen in Oregon.

Fay Jones was born in Boston in 1936 and received her bachelor of fine arts degree in 1957 from the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1960, she moved to Seattle with her husband, Robert Jones, who accepted a position on the art faculty at the University of Washington. Although Fay Jones continued to paint in the 1960s and ’70s, her artistic career took off in the early ’80s as curators and collectors began to take a keen interest in figurative narration. Jones deals with a variety of autobiographical issues in her work.

Fay Jones: Painted Fictions is supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax Funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday and will be closed Dec. 23 through Jan. 2 for winter break. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Museum Showcases Contemporary Native American Prints

A selection of contemporary prints created at the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon will be featured in an exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. The Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Biennial opens Oct. 28 and continues through Dec. 22 in the Study Gallery and Print Study Center.

Several events are planned in conjunction with the exhibition, including an artist lecture, a panel discussion and a printmaking workshop.

Founded in 1992 by Native American painter and printmaker James Lavadour, the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts seeks to create educational and professional opportunities for Native Americans to use their art as a vehicle for economic development. The facility, housed in the historic St. Andrew’s Mission schoolhouse, features a state-of-the-art printmaking studio, classroom, computer lab, library and gallery.

The exhibition, organized by faculty curator Rebecca Dobkins, features work created in the past six years by 15 contemporary artists from throughout the U.S., including Rick Bartow, Joe Feddersen, James Lavadour, Edgar Heap of Birds, Truman Lowe, Lillian Pitt, Kay WalkingStick and Marie Watt. A wide variety of printmaking techniques are represented, including lithography, etching, linocut, woodcut and monotype.

On Oct. 27 from 5 to 6 p.m., master printer Frank Janzen will present a slide lecture on the history of the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts. Janzen is a graduate of the University of Victoria and is the Tamarind Master Printer for the Crow’s Shadow Press.

On Oct. 28 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Dobkins will lead a panel discussion with Native American artists about the impact of Crow’s Shadow on contemporary Native American art in general and their own work in particular. Included in the discussion will be Rick Bartow, Phillip John Charette, Joe Feddersen, James Lavadour, Lillian Pitt and Marie Watt.

The lecture and symposium will be held in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall on the second floor of the museum. Admission is free.

On Nov. 11 and 12 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Janzen will return to Salem to offer a two-day workshop on monotype techniques. Students will work off of Plexiglas plates and will employ an etching press, giving them options for a variety of sizes and techniques such as the additive method, subtractive method, stencil work and use of non-traditional materials. No prior experience is necessary.

The workshop will be held at a yet-to-be-determined location in Salem. Cost is $100 per student for the two-day class. Enrollment is limited to 10 students and registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Materials will be provided. Students are encouraged to bring their own lunch. To register, call 503-370-6855.

The Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Biennial is supported by an endowment gift from The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde through their Spirit Mountain Community Fund, and by the Indian Country Conversations Series at Willamette University. Additional support has been provided by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For information, call 503-370-6855.

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Artist Demonstration and Workshop Planned at Museum

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University will host a second free artist demonstration and a jewelry workshop for adults in conjunction with its Recycled Art exhibition, which continues through Nov. 4.

On Oct. 21 from noon to 4 p.m. in the museum lobby, mixed media artist Marita Dingus will demonstrate how she fashions dolls, baskets and wall hangings from found objects. Dingus holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Temple University and master of arts and master of fine arts degrees from San Jose State University. Inspired by African and African-American folk art, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Travel Grant to study and travel in Africa.

Jewelry artist and educator Laurie Hall will lead a jewelry workshop for adults entitled “Found Objects + Narrative” from 1 to 4 p.m. Nov. 4 in Room 301 of the Art Building on campus. Participants can bring their own found objects, saved memory pieces or personal photographs, or select from a wide range of materials on hand to create a unique, meaningful piece to wear in the tradition of found object and narrative jewelry.

Hall holds a bachelor of arts degree from Willamette and a master of arts in teaching degree from the University of Washington, where she studied with legendary jewelry teacher Ramona Solberg. Hall taught at Mercer Island High School and The Bush School in Seattle for many years and is represented by several galleries in the United States.

Admission to the workshop is free, but advance registration is required. Space is limited to 25 students and will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. To register, call (503) 370-6855.

Recycled Art is supported in part by grants from the City of Salem Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Museum Plans Artist Demonstration and Family Activity Workshop

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University has planned an artist demonstration and family activity workshop in conjunction with its Recycled Art exhibition, which is on display until Nov. 4.

On Sept. 23 from noon to 4 p.m., mixed media artist Ross Palmer Beecher will make traditional quilts and flags from aluminum cans and other found objects. Beecher attended the Rhode Island School of Design and has lived and worked in Seattle since the late 1970s. She has been featured in numerous one-person and group exhibitions and was the recipient of the Betty Bowen Award in 2002, which is given by the Seattle Art Museum to visual artists in the Northwest.

Recycling artist and “Dumpster Diving Diva” Diane Kurzyna will lead a family activity workshop entitled “Curious Creatures” from noon to 4 p.m. Oct. 7. Participants will create interesting and unusual beasts from telephone wire, fabric scraps, bottle caps, candy wrappers and other junk. Kurzyna is a graduate of Rutgers University and an artist-in-residence with the Washington State Arts Commission. Learn more about Kurzyna at www.rubyreusable.com.

Both the artist demonstration and family activity workshop will be held in the lobby of the museum. Admission to both is free.

Recycled Art has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, please call (503) 370-6855.

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Museum Plans Teacher Workshop and Gallery Talks

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University has planned a workshop for teachers and a series of gallery talks in conjunction with the current exhibition, Recycled Art.

The exhibition, which runs until Nov. 4, features the work of 36 contemporary artists from Oregon, Washington and Montana who fashion artwork from recycled materials. Included in the exhibition are paintings, sculpture, basketry, clothing, jewelry, furniture, textiles and glass.

Elizabeth Garrison, the Cameron Paulin Curator of Education at the museum, will teach a workshop to help teachers prepare their students for a field trip to the museum, develop strategies to tour the exhibition and propose ideas that reinforce the gallery experience and broaden curriculum concepts once back in the classroom. Garrison has written a teacher packet about recycled art that will be available online at www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art.

The workshop is from 4 to 6 p.m. Sept. 20 in the lobby and the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery at the museum. Admission is free, although advance registration is required. To register, call (503) 370-6855.

In addition to the workshop, an ongoing series of gallery talks about the exhibition will be offered from 12:30 to 1 p.m. every Tuesday, Sept. 5 to Oct. 31. Gallery talks will be presented by Garrison or a museum docent. Admission is free.

Recycled Art has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Museum Showcases Art Made of Recycled Materials

In today’s era of heightened environmental awareness, artists are increasingly turning to junk stores, trash bins and surplus outlets to satisfy their urge to create while still caring for the planet.

An exhibition of recycled art will open Aug. 26 and continue through Nov. 4 in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. Organized by Director John Olbrantz, the exhibition will feature the work of contemporary artists from Oregon, Washington and Montana who fashion artwork from recycled materials.

“The premise of the exhibition is rooted in history,” Olbrantz said. “The tradition of recycling dates back to the 19th century, when American pioneers recycled items instead of discarding them.”

The exhibition will feature 72 works in a variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture, jewelry, furniture, textiles and glass. Thirty-six artists will be featured in the show, including Ross Palmer Beecher, who creates traditional quilts from recycled aluminum cans; Gloria Crouse, who makes fanciful clothing from plastic six-pack rings and rip-stop; Ron Ho, who makes jewelry from found objects; David Gilhooly, who creates miniature tableaus from recycled plastic action figures and old puzzles; Katherine Holzknecht, who makes furniture and lamps from old skis; and Mark Smith, who stuffs vinyl forms with recycled clothing.

In conjunction with the exhibition, artist demonstrations and workshops for youths are planned for September and October. Artist demonstrations are scheduled for Sept. 23 and Oct. 21 from noon to 4 p.m. in the galleries. A family activity workshop led by recycling artist and “Dumpster Diving Diva” Diane Kurzyna, whose work is included in the show, is set for Oct. 7 from noon to 4 p.m. in the lobby. Admission to the workshop is free.

The use of everyday objects in art can be traced to American folk art in the 19th and 20th centuries; to the Dada movement in Zurich, Barcelona and New York in the 1910s and early 1920s; and most recently to the work of Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, John Chamberlain and Louise Nevelson, among others. With increased environmental concerns in recent years, the use of recycled materials in art has gained new credibility, Olbrantz said.

Recycled Art has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax Funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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The James M. Floyd Memorial: An Installation by Nancy Floyd

Contemporary artist Nancy Floyd’s installation dedicated to her brother who was killed in the Vietnam War will be on exhibit Aug. 5 to Oct. 21 in the Study Gallery at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Floyd created the installation, The James M. Floyd Memorial, in honor of her brother Jim, who was killed in 1969. Floyd will give an illustrated slide show lecture about her work of the past 20 years, including The James M. Floyd Memorial, at 5 p.m. Sept. 15 in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the museum. The lecture is free and open to the public. A preview reception will follow from 6 to 8 p.m. in the lobby and galleries downstairs.

The museum also will host a free, four-part film series, Vietnam: On the Frontlines, from 7 to 8 p.m. Sept. 14 and 28 and Oct. 5 and 19 in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall.

The exhibition includes photos and mementos of James Floyd and represents the artist’s recollection of a brother who went off to war and came home in a flag-draped coffin. “I am interested in telling a story different from the ones [found] in history books, or on television, or in the movies,” Floyd has commented. “Many people don’t realize what a family goes through when a loved one is lost. I want the viewer to see the real effect of war.”

Nancy Floyd, the youngest of six children, was born in Monticello, Minn., in 1956 and raised in League City, Texas. She holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin, a master of arts degree from Columbia College Chicago, and a master of fine arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. Since 1996, she has been an associate professor in the School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in Atlanta.

The James M. Floyd Memorial was first shown in 1986 in Los Angeles and League City. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was shown in Washington, D.C., where it was included in War and Memory at the Washington Project for the Arts. It also was included in A Different War, a major traveling exhibition organized by Lucy Lippard and John Olbrantz that examined the impact of the Vietnam War on contemporary American art.

The James M. Floyd Memorial: An Installation by Nancy Floyd has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax Funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Jim Riswold: Göring’s Lunch

A small exhibition of photographs by Jim Riswold, a Portland photographer whose work satirizes some of the most well-known despots of the 20th century, will open May 27 and continue through Aug. 5 in the Print Study Center of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Jim Riswold: Göring’s Lunch will feature the dark humor and parody Riswold uses in his photos, in which he juxtaposes toy models and plastic houses with Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Josef Stalin and Hideki Tojo. The works suggest the bizarre psychology of photographer Cindy Sherman’s staged works, but at the same time recall “Springtime for Hitler,” Mel Brooks’ famous song and dance spoof from The Producers.

Born in Seattle in 1957, Riswold graduated from the University of Washington in 1983 with degrees in philosophy, history and communications. He eventually moved to Portland and secured a position with Wieden + Kennedy, a major advertising firm that handles a number of national accounts, including one for Nike. As creative director, Riswold worked with Michael Jordan, Bo Jackson, Spike Lee and Tiger Woods, among others.

Riswold began taking photos a few years ago after surfing the Internet and discovering a universe of Hitler products, including toys, dolls, books, videos and garden tools. Other searches revealed similar projects related to Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo and a host of Hitler’s henchmen. Riswold was curious that these items could be considered toys, and although he was not trained as a photographer himself, he enlisted the help of friends and colleagues to capture his own ideas with photography.

Riswold has had four solo exhibitions since he took up photography, including three exhibitions at the Augen Gallery in Portland and the current exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. He is represented in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art and several private collections throughout the region.

Jim Riswold: Göring’s Lunch has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax Funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Frank Boyden: Prints and Books

A major exhibition of prints and books by Frank Boyden, an internationally recognized Oregon ceramic artist and printmaker whose work is based on the flora and fauna of the state, will open June 10 and continue through Aug. 5 in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

As a special feature, Boyden will discuss his work June 9 from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. A preview reception in honor of the artist will follow from 6 to 8 p.m. in the lobby and galleries downstairs. The talk is free and open to the public.

Born in Portland in 1942, Boyden received his bachelor of arts degree from Colorado College and his bachelor of fine arts and master of fine arts degrees from Yale University. In 1971, he returned to Oregon and established the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis. After a successful career as a ceramic artist in the 1970s and early 1980s, Boyden returned to printmaking in 1984.

Frank Boyden: Prints and Books will feature more than 20 years of Boyden’s work. A prolific printmaker, Boyden has explored a wide variety of themes in his work, including animals, the landscape and most recently, the human figure. The exhibition will feature more than 90 aquatints, drypoints, etchings and lithographs drawn from the permanent collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, which has one of the largest collections of Boyden prints in the U.S. The exhibition also will include a number of Boyden’s handmade art books.

In conjunction with the exhibition, a full-color, 160-page catalogue has been published. The book includes essays by Portland art writer Prudence Roberts, who attempts to place Boyden’s prints within the context of modern and regional art, and the artist’s son Ian Boyden, who discusses his father as a printmaker and book collaborator. The book also includes more than 160 illustrations and an extensive chronology of the artist.

Frank Boyden: Prints and Books has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax Funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Hallie Ford Museum of Art Announces 2006-07 Exhibitions

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University announces its exhibitions for the 2006-07 season, including works from an Oregon printmaker, art made from recycled materials and a Seattle artist’s autobiographical paintings.

“I’m extremely pleased with the quality, range and diversity of temporary exhibitions planned for next year,” Museum Director John Olbrantz said.

Major exhibitions scheduled for the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery include:

Frank Boyden: Prints and Books (June 10-Aug. 5) will feature the work of this Oregon printmaker and founder of the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis, Ore. A ceramic artist and printmaker, Boyden has explored a wide variety of themes in his prints over the past 20 years, including animals, the landscape and most recently, the human figure. The exhibition will feature more than 90 aquatints, drypoints, etchings and lithographs drawn from the permanent collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, which has one of the largest collections of Boyden prints in the U.S.

Recycled Art (Aug. 26-Nov. 4) will feature the work of a number of contemporary artists from throughout the region who fashion artwork from recycled materials. Included in the exhibition will be artists Ross Palmer Beecher, who creates traditional quilts from recycled aluminum cans; Gloria Crouse, who makes fanciful clothing from Rip-stop and plastic six-pack rings; David Gilhooly, who creates miniature tableaus from recycled plastic action figures and old puzzles; and Ron Ho, who makes exquisite jewelry from found objects.

Fay Jones: Painted Fictions (Nov. 18-Jan. 20, 2007) will feature the work of this Seattle narrative and symbolist painter who deals with a variety of autobiographical issues in her work, from growing up in New England in the 1940s and ’50s to an exploration of a broad range of personal symbols that she has wrestled with for most of her professional life. The exhibition will include work from the past 20 years from Portland and Seattle collections.

George Johanson (Feb. 3-March 31, 2007) will chronicle the life and times of this Portland painter, printmaker and teacher, whose work focuses on bathers, swimmers, artists and the streets and vistas of Portland, a place he has called home since the late 1940s. The exhibition will trace Johanson’s career over a 60-year time period and will feature works drawn from regional collections.

Senior Art Majors (April 14-May 12, 2007) features the work of senior art majors at Willamette. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, photography and mixed media. In addition, the exhibition features senior theses in art history.

Smaller exhibitions scheduled for the Study Gallery include:

• Mel Katz: Recent Donations and Acquisitions (May 27-July 29),
• The James M. Floyd Memorial: An Installation by Nancy Floyd (Aug. 5-Oct. 21),
• The First Crow Shadow Institute Biennial (Oct. 28-Dec. 22),
• John Van Dreal: Still Lifes and Figures (Jan. 6-March 3, 2007), and
• Ancient Glass: Selections from the Richard Brockway Collection (March 10-May 19, 2007).

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the Willamette University campus. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Mel Katz: Recent Donations and Acquisitions

A small exhibition of sculptures by Mel Katz, a Portland sculptor and teacher whose work is rooted in the principles of geometric abstraction, will open May 27 and continue through July 29 in the Study Gallery of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Born in Brooklyn in 1932, Katz graduated in 1953 from the Cooper Union Art School in New York and attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School in 1954 and 1955. He moved to Portland in 1964 to accept a teaching position at the Portland Art Museum School, and in 1966, he accepted a similar position at Portland State University, where he taught for the next 32 years.

Originally trained as a painter, Katz has made sculptures since the early 1970s. Katz is the son of a pattern maker in New York, and his sculpture reflects his father’s work in the garment trade: pattern making, tracing and cutting. The exhibition, which spans a 35-year period, includes work from his Grey Series, Sawtooth Series, Pedestal Series and Reveal Series.

Over the years, Katz has been featured in numerous one-person and group exhibitions throughout the U.S. He was the subject of a major retrospective at the Portland Art Museum in 1988 and was included in the traveling exhibition Still Working in 1994. His work is included in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, the City of Seattle and many national corporations.

In 2004, Katz and his wife Dianne Anderson offered to donate several older pieces to the permanent collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, with the first donation occurring in 2005 and subsequent donations in 2006 and 2007. In return, the museum agreed to purchase a newer work by 2008. The current exhibition is the result of this collaboration and partnership. The exhibition includes the four sculptures, which the museum took possession of last year.

Mel Katz: Recent Donations and Acquisitions has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax Funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State St. (corner of State and Cottage streets) in downtown Salem near the Willamette University campus. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call (503) 370-6855.

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Two New Exhibitions at Hallie Ford Museum

Two new exhibitions that introduce the work of artists from the Willamette University art department will open April 15 and continue through May 13 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. The work of senior art and art history majors and art faculty member Alexandra Opie will be featured.

The Senior Art Majors Exhibition is presented each spring. Characterized by a wide variety of styles and approaches, the exhibition includes work in a variety of media, including painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, ceramics and mixed media. The exhibition also features a section devoted to senior theses in art history.

From Oregon, the exhibition includes senior art and art history majors Benjamin Decherd, Allyson Dutko, Kasia Elerath, Chris Hochendoner, Julia Houha, Alex MacKenzie, Read McFaddin, Scott Randall, Rachael Sanders and Yen Tran. Students from nearby states include Morgan Bagge, Kirsten Erwin, Julie Hansmeier, Kristin Knutson, Ann Mitchell, Nicole Reed, Amber Revoir and Melissa Williams.

Alexandra Opie is a visiting professor at Willamette University. She holds a BA degree from Southern Oregon University and an MFA degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University, in electronic media, installation art and performance. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts and the College of Holy Cross. Her exhibition will feature a new video installation.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The museum is closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information call 503-370-6855.

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Dean Porter: Taos Landscapes

A small exhibition of Dean Porter’s work will run March 18 to May 20 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. Dean Porter is a painter, printmaker, art historian and director emeritus of the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

For the past two decades, Porter has traveled to Taos, N.M., to paint. Guest curated by Associate Professor Ann Nicgorski, the exhibition will feature a range of watercolors and woodcuts created during the past few years.

Porter will also deliver the 2006 Hogue-Sponenburgh Lecture April 6 at Cone Chapel in Waller Hall on the Willamette campus. He will speak about “The Rise and Fall of the Taos Society of Artists.” This event is free and the public is invited.

Dean Porter holds a Ph.D. from the State University of New York, Binghamton, in art history. A historian of medieval art, he took up painting and printmaking in the 1970s and has since participated in numerous one-person and group exhibitions around the country.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information call 503-370-6855.

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Ancient Bronzes Exhibition Lectures and Workshop

In conjunction with its current exhibition, Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University has planned a wide variety of lectures and workshops featuring some of the foremost scholars in the fields of Central Asian archaeology and history.

Thursday, Feb. 23, Sandra Olsen, curator of anthropology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, will deliver a lecture, “Herders, Artisans, Shamans and Warriors of the Ancient Asian Steppe.” She will discuss the horse-riding steppe cultures of Central Asia during the second and first millennia BCE.

Olsen earned her Ph.D. in archaeology from the University of London and has worked at archaeological sites in Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia and China. Her major focus of research is early horse domestication and the lifestyles of the ancient herders of northern Kazakhstan.

Thursday, March 9, Morris Rossabi, professor of history at the City University of New York, will deliver a lecture, “Mongol Khans and the Settled Civilizations.” Rossabi will highlight the rise of the Mongol khans in the 12th and 13th centuries CE and will discuss their impact on religion, art, science and technology throughout Central Asia as a result of their creation of a Pax Mongolica.

Rossabi is considered one of the foremost authorities on Central Asian history in the United States. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Central Asian history, including “China and Inner Asia from 1368 to the Present Day” and “Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times.”

Both lectures will be at 7 p.m. in the Paulus Lecture Hall in the College of Law at Willamette University. Olsen’s lecture is co-sponsored by the Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. Rossabi’s lecture is co-sponsored by the departments of Asian studies, religious studies, and history at Willamette University. Admission is free.

Saturday, March 18, from noon to 4 p.m., a family workshop, “Camels and Leopards and Bears, Oh My!” will be presented in the lobby of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. Children and their parents will create sculpture and wearable art with animal motifs and enjoy colorful animal folktales that transport them back to ancient Mongolia. Admission to the workshop is free and attendees are encouraged to pick up a special family guide and follow the clues.

Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation has been supported by grants from the Oregon Arts Commission and the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For further information call 503-370-6855.

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Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation

A major exhibition of ancient steppe art on loan from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation in New York will run Jan. 21 through April 1 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. The exhibition brings to life the complex cultures that flourished across the Asian grasslands from northern China and Mongolia to Central Asia and Eastern Europe during the late second and first millennia BCE.

Curated by Trudy Kawami, director of research for the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, “Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands” reveals how the ancient, horse-riding cultures of Mongolia and Central Asia used the animal world as a source of symbols to indicate tribe, social rank and connection to the spirit world. The exhibition shows how these complex cultures helped facilitate travel and trade along the Silk Road during the first millennia BCE.

The exhibition features more than 80 masterpieces of steppe art, including bronze belt buckles, plaques, pendants, ornaments and weapons. Animal motifs such as antlered stags, wild boars and birds of prey are a primary theme. The exhibition includes text panels, annotated labels, a map, photomurals, a free color brochure and a full-color, hardcover book by scholar and research consultant Emma Bunker.

As a special feature, Kawami will present an illustrated lecture on the ancient bronzes of the Asian grasslands Friday, Jan. 27, from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Paulus Lecture Hall at Willamette’s College of Law. She will discuss the role of bronzes among the ancient, horse-riding cultures of Mongolia and Central Asia. Admission to her lecture is free.

In addition to Kawami’s lecture, an ongoing series of gallery talks on the exhibition will be offered Tuesday afternoons from 12:30 to 1 p.m. from Jan. 31 through March 24. Gallery talks will be presented by Elizabeth Garrison, the Cameron Paulin Curator of Education, or a Hallie Ford Museum of Art docent. Admission is free.

Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987), a research psychiatrist, medical publisher, connoisseur and art collector, established the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation in 1965 to make his extensive art collections available to a wide audience. The foundation collection has more than 1,100 works of art, including Chinese ritual bronzes and ceramics, Buddhist stone sculpture and the Ch’u Silk Manuscript, the oldest existing Chinese written document.

Kawami received her doctorate from Columbia University in art history and archaeology, where she specialized in the art of ancient Western Asia. She has conducted research in Turkey, Iran and Israel and is the author of “Monumental Art of the Parthian Period in Iran” (Leiden: 1987) and “Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections” (New York: 1992). Kawami is a frequent lecturer and has published numerous articles.

“Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation” has been supported by grants from the Oregon Arts Commission and the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (the corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information call 503-370-6855.

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Teacher Workshop for Ancient Bronzes Exhibition

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University will present a workshop for teachers interested in bringing classes to see the “Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands” exhibition Wednesday, Feb. 1, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the museum. The workshop is free, although advance registration is required so that teacher kits can be produced. To register, please call 503-370-6855.

The workshop, taught by Elizabeth Garrison, the Cameron Paulin Curator of Education at the museum, will help teachers prepare students for a fieldtrip to the exhibition and propose ideas that reinforce the gallery experience and broaden curriculum concepts back in the classroom. Garrison has written a teacher packet on ancient steppe art and culture that will be available to attendees. For those who cannot attend, the teacher packet will be available online.

“Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation” is a major exhibition of ancient steppe art on loan from one of the foremost collections of Asian art in the United States. The exhibition brings to life the complex cultures that flourished across the Asian grasslands from northern China and Mongolia to Central Asia and Eastern Europe during the late second and first millennia BCE. It runs from Jan. 21 through April 1.

“Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands” has been supported by grants from the Oregon Arts Commission and the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (the corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information call 503-370-6855.

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“Tom Foolery: Miniature Environments” at Hallie Ford Museum

Tom Foolery is a highly regarded Montana mixed-media artist who creates miniature tableaux and environments in theater spotlights and vending machines. A small exhibition of his work will run Jan. 7 through March 11 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Born in Wisconsin in 1947 and raised in Livingston, Mont., and Corvallis, Ore., Foolery attended Oregon State University and the University of Washington, where he studied drawing and painting. In 1975, inspired by the New York sculptor and self-taught artist Joseph Cornell, he began to create miniature tableaus and environments. The first took place on the dashboard of his Rambler, while the next appeared in the box of a Brownie camera.

A friend who owned a lighting business in Hollywood introduced the artist to theater spotlights. For Foolery, the interior of each light fixture offered a different sized interior stage on which to tell his stories and dramas. Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, his work poked fun at the contemporary art scene, a scene he understood as an artist and as a professional art handler in San Francisco.

In 1994, after numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Canada, Foolery left California and returned to Montana. After a six-year hiatus during which he designed and built a solar-powered house and studio, he returned to the studio and began to make art. Instead of subjects based on the contemporary art scene, however, he shifted his attention to Western art and replaced the posh galleries and street scenes of San Francisco with the facades, galleries, saloons and brothels of small Western towns.

In addition to a shift in subject matter, Foolery began to work with cigarette, candy and pop machines. For Foolery, the vending machine provided a larger format to tell his stories, and as a vehicle for his dramas, had greater familiarity for the typical viewer than a theater spotlight. The current exhibition includes a range of Foolery’s work from the early 1980s to the present.

“Tom Foolery: Miniature Environments” has been supported by a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, please call 503-370-6855.

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Last Chance to View Unusual Exhibition

“Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread,” a stunning exhibition of traditional and contemporary Maori weaving on loan from New Zealand collections, is scheduled to close on Dec. 22. The exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University features more than 100 woven items and is the first time a major exhibition of Maori weaving has been presented in the United States. Willamette University is one of only three venues in the world chosen for this exhibition tour.

“For those who want to see a really fine exhibition of Maori weaving, ‘Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread’ should not be missed,” said John Olbrantz, director of the museum.

In the 1950s, New Zealand witnessed a major revival of traditional Maori weaving initiated by a new generation of Maori weavers. In addition to several traditional cloaks created over the past 20 years, the exhibition honors a new generation of artists who have created innovative works of art anchored in the concepts, materials and techniques of the past.

Some of the artists in the exhibition explore non-traditional materials. Lonnie Hutchinson uses paper to create “cut-out” cloaks, while Kataraina Hetet weaves with film leader. Diane Prince has created an ethereal semi-transparent cloak of copper wire, while Erenora Puketapu-Hetet has woven two cloaks, one a traditional cloak, the other from wire, feathers and paua. Multi-media artist Lisa Reihana created digital interpretations of weaving in her evocative video “Tauira,” while Moana Nepia’s “paintings with feathers” challenge tradition notions of Maori weaving.

In addition to the exquisite kakahu (high quality woven cloaks) on display, the exhibition features different types of woven items, including whariki (woven floor mats) and kete (finely woven baskets). Text panels introduce visitors to the history, materials and techniques of contemporary Maori weaving, while large photomurals of ancestors wearing cloaks provide compelling evidence of the significance and continuity of the cloak within traditional Maori culture.

After the exhibition closes in Salem, it will travel to the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle, where it will be shown during the winter of 2006.

Organized by the Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture in Porirua City, New Zealand, in partnership with Toi Maori Aotearea-Maori Arts New Zealand, the exhibition is supported by a major grant from Te Waka Toi/Creative New Zealand. Local sponsorship has been provided by grants from The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde through their Spirit Mountain Community Fund, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission and the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the Willamette University campus. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information call 503-370-6855.

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Patecky Abstract Art Slated for Hallie Ford Museum

Albert Patecky was a highly regarded Portland painter who helped introduce regional audiences to non-objective art. Although he was known for his paintings and prints of regional subject matter, Patecky flirted with abstraction during the late 1940s and ’50s. A small exhibition of his experimental abstract work will run Oct. 29 to Dec. 22 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Born in Michigan in 1906, Patecky arrived in Portland in 1928 and worked as a cartoonist and illustrator during the 1930s and early ’40s. An opportunity to study at the Art Students League in New York led him to the Museum of Non-Objective Painting—the forerunner of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum—where he was introduced to the work of Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian-born founder of the German Expressionist movement Der Blaue Reiter.

“Patecky was inspired by Kandinsky’s nonrepresentational work,” said John Olbrantz, museum director, “and created his own non-objective works, which were exhibited in the Museum of Non-Objective Painting for several years.

“Patecky was particularly interested in the clear geometric forms of Kandinsky’s 1930s work and in the analogy Kandinsky drew between painting and music,” Olbrantz said.

Organized by Willamette University Professor Roger Hull, the exhibition focuses on Patecky’s work from the late 1940s to 1966. Works have been selected from a number of regional collections. In conjunction with the exhibition, an article on Patecky will be published in the September-October issue of American Art Review. Limited copies will be available at the museum.

“Albert Patecky: Abstractions” has been supported by a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For further information please call 503-370-6855.

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Student Docents to Show Off Maori Exhibition

In conjunction with its current exhibition “Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread,” the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University will offer student-led exhibition tours through early December. Tours will be offered Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. from Oct. 25 through Dec. 6, and on Saturdays beginning at 1 p.m. from Oct. 29 through Dec. 3, with the exception of the Thanksgiving weekend. Student docents have studied Maori art and culture for several months and worked closely with the Maori weavers when they were in residence at the museum.

“Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread” is a major exhibition of traditional and contemporary Maori weaving on loan from New Zealand collections. Included in the exhibition are superb examples of kakahu (high quality woven cloaks), whariki (woven floor mats), kete (finely woven baskets) and other exquisite woven pieces. The exhibition runs from Sept. 24 through Dec. 22 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art and is the first time a major exhibition of Maori weaving has been presented in the United States.

Organized by the Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture in Porirua City, New Zealand, in partnership with Toi Maori Aotearoa-Maori Arts New Zealand, the exhibition is supported by a major grant from Te Waka Toi/Creative New Zealand. Additional funding was provided by the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde through their Spirit Mountain Community Fund, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission and the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For further information please call 503-370-6855.

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Maori Exhibition to Open at Hallie Ford Museum of Art

A major exhibition of traditional and contemporary Maori weaving will open Sept. 24 and continue through Dec. 22 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. “Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread” features more than 100 woven items from New Zealand collections and is the first time a major exhibition of Maori weaving has been presented in the United States. Willamette University is one of only three venues in the world chosen for this exhibition tour. Maori weavers will be on site, explaining their craft, and will conduct an opening ceremony and procession, wearing visually stunning cloaks woven from native plants and the feathers of kiwi birds.

The exhibition demonstrates the spiritual significance of weaving within Maori culture. Among the Maori, cloaks provide mantles of leadership and spiritual protection, reflecting the status of tribal leaders, and finely woven cloaks ornamented with feathers are worn for important ceremonial occasions.

In the 1950s, New Zealand witnessed a major revival of traditional Maori weaving. The exhibition honors that revival as well as a new generation of artists who have created innovative, contemporary art anchored in the concepts, materials and techniques of the past.

Some artists in the exhibition explore nontraditional materials, including paper “cut-out” cloaks, film leader and wire. Artist Diane Prince has created an ethereal, semi-transparent cloak of copper wire, while multimedia artist Lisa Reihana has created digital interpretations of weaving in her evocative video, “Tauira,” and Moana Nepia’s “paintings with feathers” challenge traditional notions of Maori weaving.

A number of traditional weaving techniques are represented, including whatu, used to weave the cloak’s materials together, and raranga, used to create finely woven baskets and floor mats. Traditionally, looms were not used to create cloaks; instead, the work was suspended between two upright pegs and woven by hand. Cloaks are distinguished by their decoration and have evolved over the years. Those ornamented with feathers are highly prized and considered the most prestigious.

In addition to the exquisite cloaks, text panels will introduce visitors to the history, materials and techniques of Maori weaving, while photomurals of ancestors will portray the significance and continuity of the cloak within Maori culture. Lectures, panel discussions and weaving demonstrations will introduce visitors to the history and beauty of Maori art and culture.

Organized by the Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture in Porirua City, New Zealand, in partnership with Toi Maori Aotearea-Maori Arts New Zealand, the exhibition is supported by a major grant from Te Waka Toi/Creative New Zealand. Local sponsorship has been provided by grants from The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde through their Spirit Mountain Community Fund, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission and the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the Willamette University campus. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information call 503-370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/go/maori.

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Maori Activities Scheduled

Festivities, lectures, panel discussions and weaving demonstrations are planned for the last week of September and the first week of October to celebrate the opening of the “Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread” exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. The activities will introduce visitors to the history and beauty of traditional and contemporary Maori weaving.

On Friday, Sept. 23, the museum and university, in partnership with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and Siletz, will host a Procession of Nations on the Willamette campus. The procession, which will convene at 4 p.m. at Jackson Plaza, will welcome the Maori people of New Zealand to the ancestral homeland of the Willamette Valley tribes and will include representatives of the native nations of Oregon and beyond.

On Saturday, Sept. 24, the museum will present lectures and panel discussions in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall upstairs and weaving demonstrations in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery downstairs.

From 11 a.m. to noon, Darcy Nicholas, director of the Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture in New Zealand, will deliver a slide lecture on contemporary Maori art and culture. A painter and sculptor, Nicholas is one of the organizers of the exhibition.

From noon to 2 p.m., Maori and Native American weavers will participate in two separate panel discussions on indigenous weaving materials, techniques and traditions. Rebecca Dobkins, associate professor of anthropology at Willamette University and faculty curator of Native American art at the museum, will moderate.

From noon to 4 p.m. in the Melvin Henderson-Gallery, Maori weavers will demonstrate traditional and contemporary Maori weaving techniques. They will also hold demonstrations Sept. 27–29 and Oct. 3–6 from noon to 4 p.m.

Organized by the Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture in Porirua City, New Zealand, in partnership with Toi Maori Aotearea-Maori Arts New Zealand, the exhibition is supported by a major grant from Te Waka Toi/Creative New Zealand. Local sponsorship has been provided by grants from The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde through their Spirit Mountain Community Fund, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission and the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds. “Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread” features more than 100 woven items from New Zealand collections and is the first time a major exhibition of Maori weaving has been presented in the United States. Willamette University is one of only three venues in the world chosen for this exhibition tour.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the Willamette University campus. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. In celebration of Willamette’s Homecoming Weekend, admission on Sept. 23–24 will be free. For more information call 503-370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/go/maori.

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K-12 Educators Invited To Maori Workshop

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University will host a workshop for teachers interested in bringing classes to the “Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread” exhibition. Elizabeth Garrison, the Cameron Paulin Curator of Education at the museum, will teach the workshop.

The workshop will help teachers prepare students for a field trip to the museum and will help them develop strategies to tour the exhibition. Teachers will learn how to design gallery activities for students, reinforce the museum experience and broaden curriculum concepts back in the classroom. Garrison has developed a teacher kit on Maori weaving and culture that will be available to participants. For those who cannot attend the workshop, the teacher kit is available online at www.willamette.edu/go/maori.

The workshop will be held Wednesday, Sept. 28, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. Light refreshments will be served. As a special feature, Maori weavers will be available at the beginning of the workshop to meet with teachers and answer questions. Admission to the workshop is free, although advance registration is required. Please call 503-370-6855 by Sept. 26 to register.

“Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread” is a major exhibition of traditional and contemporary Maori weaving on loan from New Zealand collections. The exhibition features exquisite woven cloaks, floor mats, baskets and other pieces. The exhibition runs from Sept. 24 through Dec. 22 and represents the first time that a major exhibition of Maori weaving has been presented in the United States. Willamette University is one of only three venues in the world chosen for this exhibition tour.

Organized by the Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture in Porirua City, New Zealand, in partnership with Toi Maori Aotearea-Maori Arts New Zealand, the exhibition is supported by a major grant from Te Waka Toi/Creative New Zealand. Local sponsorship has been provided by grants from The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde through their Spirit Mountain Community Fund, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission and the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy funds.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the Willamette University campus. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, call 503/370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/go/maori.

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Polynesian Scholar to Speak at Hallie Ford Museum of Art

Patrick Kirch will deliver a free slide lecture on Polynesian prehistory Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7 p.m., in the Paulus Lecture Hall at the Willamette University College of Law.

“Patrick Kirch is one of the foremost Polynesian scholars and archaeologists in the world,” said John Olbrantz, director of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

“Professor Kirch will situate Maori culture within the broader framework of Polynesian cultures and prehistory,” Olbrantz said. “He will discuss the archaeological evidence for Polynesian origins and migrations, and speak to the record of ancient Polynesian art. Maori art is a reflection of thousands of years of artistic tradition that can be traced back in time to the ancestors of the Polynesians.”

Born and raised in Hawaii, Kirch has led archaeological excavations in the Pacific Islands, served as a consultant for documentary films on Polynesian archaeology and navigation, and directed the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle. He currently teaches anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and serves as curator of oceanic archeology at UC Berkeley’s Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

“His landmark book, ‘On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact,’ remains the definitive book in the field,” Olbrantz said.

Kirch’s lecture is presented in conjunction with “Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread,” a major exhibition of traditional and contemporary Maori weaving on loan from New Zealand collections. The exhibition, which features exquisite woven cloaks, floor mats, baskets and other pieces, runs from Sept. 24 through Dec. 22, at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. The university is one of only three venues in the world chosen for this exhibition tour.

Organized by the Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture in Porirua City, New Zealand, in partnership with Toi Maori Aotearea-Maori Arts New Zealand, the exhibition is supported by a major grant from Te Waka Toi/Creative New Zealand. Local sponsorship has been provided by grants from The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde through their Spirit Mountain Community Fund, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission and the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy funds.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. The hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information, please call 503-370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/go/maori.

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Installation Honors Donation to Hallie Ford Museum of Art

A new installation at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University celebrates promised gifts to the museum’s permanent collection. The installation features the work of C.S. Price, Charles Heaney, Amanda Snyder and Harry Wentz. The art has been donated from the collection of Frances Price Cook, a niece of C.S. Price who lives in Portland, Oregon, and Ruth West, of Longview, Washington.

“Price was a legend in Oregon modern art,” said Museum Director John Olbrantz. “He was an inspiration to his younger contemporaries, Heaney and Snyder.”

Born in 1874 in Iowa, C.S. Price worked as a cowhand in Wyoming, where he drew range animals. He attended the St. Louis School of Art for one year, met the legendary Montana artist Charles Russell, and developed skills as a Western illustrator. Some of his early illustrations are represented in the exhibition, including those he drew for the Pacific Monthly magazine.

Price saw modern European painting for the first time at the 1915 exposition in San Francisco and his artistic interests shifted from illustration to expressionism. He settled in Portland in 1929 and was befriended by Snyder, Heaney and other artists interested in European modernism.

“Although Price never entirely abandoned representational form, his later work focused on the texture of paint, the expressive power of color and the arrangement of flat shapes,” said Roger Hull, professor of art history at Willamette University.

The Cook collection features paintings, prints and illustrations from throughout Price’s career, culminating in an untitled mountain abstraction painted two years before his death. In addition to paintings, prints and drawings, visitors can view Price’s carvings of farm animals, including a wooden rocking horse made for his grandnephew.

“Animals were central to Price’s vision as an artist,” Hull said. “They embodied calmness, endurance and connectedness to universal forces.”

“The promised gifts from Frances Price Cook are of enormous significance to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art,” said Olbrantz. “Until recently, the work of C.S. Price has been absent from our collection. This generous donation fills a major gap.”

The exhibition includes paintings and prints by Charles Heaney donated by Ruth West. She and her late husband, Rex West, were friends of Heaney and were avid collectors of his work. The exhibition also includes work by Harry Wentz, an Oregon painter and teacher at the Museum Art School (now the Pacific Northwest College of Art), donated earlier by Dan and Nancy Schneider of Chicago, Illinois, and Bill Rhoades of Madras, Oregon.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the Willamette University campus. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For more information call 503-370-6855 or visit www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art/.

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Kevin Kadar: From the Form to the Sublime

Kevin Kadar is a highly regarded Portland painter who has emerged as one of the most important figurative painters in the region. A small exhibition of Kadar’s work will open June 11 and continue through Aug. 6 in the Roberts Family Print Study Center at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. The exhibition has been guest-curated by David Roberts, an art collector, art patron, and former researcher at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.

Dividing his time between Oregon and France, Kadar infuses his intimate landscapes and figures with a romantic vision of idyllic settings and an Old Master academic treatment of forms. Characterized by a dark, somber palette, frenzied, expressionistic brushstrokes, and a cold, scrutinizing eye for the human figure, Kadar explores a wide variety of themes in his work, from mysticism and religion to spirituality and sexuality.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the University campus. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day.

For further information, please call 503-370-6855.

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The Romantic Vision of Michael Brophy

Michael Brophy is a highly regarded Portland landscape painter equally committed to pictorial tradition and forceful storytelling. Through works that depict the savage beauty of the altered landscapes of Oregon’s rivers, forests, and mountains, Brophy carefully engages the social and political forces reshaping the national dialogues that define environmental preservation and sustainability.

A major exhibition of Brophy’s work, The Romantic Vision of Michael Brophy, will show June 4 through Aug. 27 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. Organized by the Tacoma Art Museum in collaboration with the Hallie Ford Museum, the exhibition traces Brophy’s career over the past dozen years. Included in the exhibition are 24 works drawn from Oregon, Washington and California collections.

Born and educated in Oregon, Brophy has been described as the quintessential regional artist because of his subject matter and painting style. As a landscape painter, Brophy continually asks, "Why does the landscape look the way it does?" His answers are not simple and point to the complex relationship between industry, history, and environmental preservation. His art reminds the viewer that the need for natural resources must be balanced with solutions that provide long-term sustainability.

Brophy will give a slide lecture on his work June 3 from 5 to 6 pm in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall; a preview reception will follow from 6 to 8 pm in the lobby and galleries downstairs.

The Romantic Vision of Michael Brophy has been supported in part by a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day.

For further information, please call 503-370-6855.

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Darius Kinsey: Big Trees at Hallie Ford Museum

Salem, Ore. – Darius Kinsey (1869-1945) was an important turn-of-the-century Washington photographer who, with his wife, Tabitha, chronicled the logging industry in northwest Washington from the 1890s to 1940. A small exhibition of Kinsey's work, Darius Kinsey: Big Trees, will open May 14 and continue through Aug. 13 in the Study Gallery at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Kinsey was born in Missouri in 1869 and at age 20 moved to Snoqualmie, Wash. A photography studio in Snoqualmie drew his curiosity and in 1890 he bought his first camera and embarked on a 50-year career as a professional photographer.

Although his works are in some of the most distinguished photography collections in the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Kinsey's photographs were not intended as works of art but as records of the people, places, and industries of the time. His portraits of loggers and homesteaders are remarkable for their clarity and verisimilitude, while his photographs of mountains, glaciers, rivers, waterfalls and deep forests capture nature at its most pristine.

Among his most popular subjects were scenes from the various phases of the logging industry, from the first cut of a giant cedar tree to the skid roads and lumber mills of rural Washington. Other subjects included transportation, such as the oxen, steam donkeys, sleds, and steam locomotives that were used to move the logs from the deep forests to the lumber mills, and architecture, such as homesteads, hotels, churches, trestles, and other structures made from the giant cedar trees logged in Washington and Oregon.

Photographs have been selected from the vast collection of the Whatcom Museum of History and Art in Bellingham, Wash., which acquired more than 5,000 Kinsey negatives in the early 1980s. Additionally, the exhibition includes one of his cameras, his timer, a stereoscope with several Kinsey stereoscopic views, Kinsey postcards, and a host of related ephemera.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and Tuesday is an admission-free day. For further information, please call 503-370-6855.

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Melville Wire: Oregon Impressionist

Melville Wire (1877-1966) was an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church who served as a pastor in Oregon for more than 60 years. In addition, he was an accomplished landscaper painter and printmaker who captured the diverse landscape of the region, from the lush and fertile valleys of western Oregon to the high desert of eastern Oregon, and from the beaches of the Oregon Coast to the deep forests of the Cascades.

A small exhibition of Wire’s paintings opens March 12 and continues through May 6 in the Study Gallery at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. A companion exhibition of his prints will open March 26 and continue through May 21 in the Roberts Family Print Study Center. Organized by Ginny Allen, an independent curator and writer, and Greg Nelson, an attorney and Wire collector, the exhibitions feature a broad range of works that reflect Wire’s career and travels and the geographic diversity of the state.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Allen and Nelson will give a joint power point presentation on Melville Wire as a painter, printmaker, and pastor Thursday, March 31, at 7 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Hallie Ford Museum. Admission is free.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and Tuesday is an admission-free day.

For further information, please call 503-370-6855.

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Charles E. Heaney: Memory, Imagination, and Place

Charles E. Heaney (1897-1981) was a highly regarded Oregon painter and printmaker who, over a 60-year period, created a powerful body of work that is remarkable for its consistency, enormity, and complex emotional expressiveness.

Born in Oconto Falls, Wis., in 1897, Heaney moved to Portland in 1913 and spent the next 67 years in Oregon, earning a coveted place in the history of Oregon art. A major retrospective of Heaney’s work, Charles E. Heaney: Memory, Imagination and Place, will open Jan. 22 and continue through March 19 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Organized by Roger Hull, professor of art at Willamette University, the exhibition includes Heaney’s urban “demolition” series based on the razing of old buildings in Portland, his renderings of the remote landscape of eastern Oregon and Nevada, and his numerous self-portraits to his icon-like portraits of women. The exhibition also includes a number of Heaney’s woodcut prints of Portland neighborhoods and small Oregon towns and aquatints based on plants, fish, and fossil forms.

In conjunction with the exhibition, a full-color, 128-page exhibition catalogue has been published. The book includes an introduction by Eugene collector Roger Saydack on the relationship between Heaney and C.S. Price, an extensive essay by Hull that places Heaney’s work within the context of his times, endnotes to the essay, a biography of the artist, and more than 80 color and black and white illustrations. The exhibition catalogue will be distributed by the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London.

As a special feature, Hull will present a free illustrated slide lecture of Charles Heaney’s work on Friday, Jan. 28, from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Cone Chapel, Waller Hall, at Willamette University.

Charles E. Heaney: Memory, Imagination and Place has been supported by Willamette University and by contributions from friends, relatives, and collectors of Charles Heaney.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day.

For further information, please call 503-370-6855.

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Marie Watt: Everything Is Drawing

Marie Watt (Seneca), Willamette University ’90, is a highly regarded Portland mixed media artist who teaches at Portland Community College. A small exhibition of Watt's work will open Jan. 8 and continue through March 5 in the Study Gallery at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Organized by Professor Rebecca Dobkins, the exhibition is a continuation of Watt’s blanket project, which explores the complexities of, and the human stories wrapped within, this everyday object. The exhibition includes prints and woven samplers from a solo exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, where Watt was recognized as one of the most talented contemporary artists of her generation.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the University campus. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and Tuesday is an admission-free day.

For further information, please call 503-370-6855.

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Mary Henry: American Constructivist

Mary Henry is a highly regarded Washington painter who creates large scale, abstract works based on geometric shapes and patterns. A major exhibition of Henry's work, created over the past 20 years, opens Nov. 13 and continues through Jan. 8 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University in Salem.

Born in Sonoma, Calif., in 1913, Henry studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts in the 1930s, where she received her BFA degree in 1938. In the 1940s, she studied with Moholy-Nagy at the Illinois Institute of Design. She received her MFA degree in 1946. She returned to California in 1950 to work as a painter.

In 1976, Henry attended a master class with New York artist Jack Tworkov at the Centrum Foundation in Port Townsend, and it was there that she met Seattle artists Joan Ross Bloedel and Lois Graham, who brought her work to the attention of Seattle curators, critics, and dealers. Since the early 1980s, she has lived and worked on the southern tip of Whidbey Island and, at 91, continues to paint every day.

Although her work remains firmly rooted in the fundamental principles of constructivism and geometric abstract art, Henry prefers not to associate with any particular art movement or style. As she has commented, "I do not put labels on my kind of painting...I just paint shapes and colors in relationships that excite and satisfy me. Hopefully, others will feel as I do and get a lift of excitement when they come upon one of my paintings on a wall. I want my work to exude a visual strength and beauty."

As a special feature, artist and curator Greg Bell will give an illustrated slide lecture about Henry's art and life on Friday, Nov. 12, from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall; a preview reception will follow from 6 to 8 p.m.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and Tuesday is an admission free day.

For further information, please call 503-370-6855.

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Between the Wars: American Printmaking of the 1920s and 30s

During the 1920s and 30s, a number of American printmakers explored various aspects of urban and rural life. They rejected European modernism in favor of a realistic style firmly rooted in the work of the American painter Robert Henri.

Although Henri was not a printmaker, it was his approach to subject matter and style that pointed these young American printmakers in a new direction, away from the decorative landscapes and simple genre scenes of the 19th century to works that were imbued with social and political comment.

Between the Wars: American Printmaking of the 1920s and 30s opens Oct. 30 and continue through Dec. 23 in the Study Gallery at the Hallie Ford Museum at Willamette University. The exhibition includes works by John Sloan, George Bellows, Rockwell Kent, Reginald Marsh, Isabel Bishop, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Gordon Gilkey and Constance Fowler. Prints have been selected from public and private collections in Oregon and Washington, including the Portland Art Museum, Reed College, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the Maryhill Museum of Art, Gonzaga University, the Tacoma Art Museum and collector Michael W. Foster.

In conjunction with the exhibition, two segments from the Robert Hughes documentary, “American Visions,” will be shown. “A Wave from the Atlantic” will be presented Tuesday, Nov. 23. This segment chronicles those immigrant artists in the early 20th century who brought their old culture to America with a thirst for the new. On Tuesday, Dec. 7, “Streamlines and Breadlines” will be shown. This segment focuses on those American artists who chronicled the urban and rural landscape of the 1920s and 30s.

Both segments will be shown in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Hallie Ford Museum at 7 pm. Admission is free.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and Tuesdays are always admission free.

For further information, please call 503-370-6855.

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Humor and Satire At Local Museum

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WWII Drawings At Hallie Ford Museum

Carl Hall (1921-1996) was a Salem painter and professor of art at Willamette University for nearly 40 years. As a combat soldier during World War II, Hall saw action on Leyte Island in the Philippines and on Okinawa.

A small exhibition of Hall's drawings will be shown Aug. 21 through Oct. 23 in the Study Gallery of the Hallie Ford Museum at Willamette University. Organized by Professor Roger Hull and drawn from the collection of Phyllis Hall, the artist's widow, the exhibition will feature a number of drawings created between 1944-45 while the artist was stationed overseas. Many of the works have never been exhibited before.

Carl Hall: World War II Drawings is timed to coincide with World Views, the freshman interdisciplinary course that emphasizes critical thinking, comparative analysis and writing. The current focus for World Views is war and peace. Future exhibitions tied to World Views for both 2005 and 2006 will feature glass sculptures by California artist and Vietnam veteran Michael Aschenbrenner and an installation by Georgia artist Nancy Floyd, who lost her brother in Vietnam in 1969.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and Tuesday is an admission-free day.

For further information, please call 503-370-6855.

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Mapping the Pacific Northwest

“Mapping the Pacific Northwest: Mapmaking, Myth-breaking, and Empire-building, 1597-1860,” a new exhibition of historic maps, opens July 3 and continues through Aug. 21 in the Roberts Family Print Study Center at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Co-organized by Page Stockwell, a Portland map collector, and David Roberts, a researcher at the Hallie Ford Museum, the exhibition provides a glimpse of the Pacific Northwest as it was transformed from a land of myth and mystery to a land that was hotly contested by major European and American powers.

Included in the exhibition are a number of rare maps, including Abraham Ortelius' Maris Pacifici from 1603, John Speed's America from 1676, Antonio Zatta's Nuove Scopertede'Russi from 1776, and Robert Wilkinson's America from 1803. As a special feature, the exhibition includes a 1760 edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels with a fanciful map of the Pacific Northwest Coast and a map of the Lewis and Clark journey across the western United States from 1814.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the Willamette campus. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and there is no fee on Tuesdays.

For further information, please call 503-370-6855.

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Charting the World: A History of Cartography, 1475-1860

“Charting the World: A History of Cartography, 1475-1860,” continues through June 26 in the Roberts Family Print Study Center at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Co-organized by Page Stockwell, a Portland map collector, and David Roberts, a researcher at the Hallie Ford Museum, the exhibition traces the history of cartography from the 15th century through the middle of the 19th century.

Included in the exhibition are a number of rare and exquisite maps including a copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle from 1493, which includes a re-creation of Ptolemy's map of the ancient world, to Joannes Blaeu's world atlas of 1662. Other maps of interest include Abraham Ortelius' map of America or the New World from 1592, and Michael Mercator's map of America or New India from 1595.

According to Stockwell and Roberts, the exhibition provides insight into the political, cultural, and philosophical themes of Western civilization as the maps represent the fears, myths, and aspirations of the societies that produced them. In addition, the exhibition provides further insight into the evolution of scientific thought and how a growing understanding of astronomy, physics, and other natural sciences brought the world together.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day.

For further information, please call 503-370-6855.

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Tom Fawkes: Terra Cognita

Tom Fawkes is a highly regarded Portland painter who creates landscapes and wood constructions of the southern Mediterranean countryside. Based on photographs that he takes on his trips to Italy, the south of France and Spain, Fawkes' work captures the light, color, texture, and architecture of the southern Mediterranean landscape.

A major exhibition of the artist's work, “Tom Fawkes: Terra Cognita,” opens June 12 and continue through Aug. 21 in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. Organized by Director John Olbrantz, the exhibition features a range of landscapes and wood constructions created over the past 10 to 15 years, including a number of new works created specifically for the exhibition.

Fawkes received his BFA degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and his MFA degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. From 1972 to 2004, he was on the faculty at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, where he has earned a reputation as a popular and influential teacher. He has been featured in numerous one-person and group exhibitions over the past 30 years and is included in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States.

Since the late 1980s, Fawkes has created landscapes that capture the color, light, texture, and ambience of the Italian garden at a particular moment in time. At the same time, he has created wood constructions that explore the concept of architectural elements that frame or define a larger space. Here, architectural elements such as doors and windows open up onto lush gardens or green vistas beyond. As illusionistic tours de force, these works challenge the viewer to determine what is real and what is not.

Fawkes will present an illustrated slide lecture on his work Friday, June 11, from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall; a preview reception to meet the artist will follow from 6 to 8 p.m. in the lobby downstairs.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and Tuesday is an admission-free day.

For further information, please call 503/370-6855.

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Myra Wiggins: Still Lifes

Myra Wiggins (1869-1956) was a nationally recognized Salem photographer with ties to Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo Secession. In addition to her photography, which encompassed landscapes, genre scenes, and portraits, Wiggins was an accomplished still life painter.

A small exhibition of Wiggins' still lifes will open on May 29 and continue through Aug. 14 in the Study Gallery at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. Organized by Professor Roger Hull, the exhibition will feature a range of still lifes executed over several decades and will be supplemented by a number of props from the artist's studio.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and Tuesday is an admission-free day.

For further information, please call 503-370-6855.

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Lillian Pitt: Spirits Keep Whistling Me Home

Lillian Pitt is a highly regarded Native American artist whose ceramics, mixed media sculptures, and installations celebrate the rich cultural traditions of the Columbia River people. A major exhibition of her work, Lillian Pitt: Spirits Keep Whistling Me Home, will open on Jan. 24 and continue through March 20 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Pitt’s work brings to life the legends and values of the Columbia River people, especially the women who preceded her. Although her chosen medium is ceramics, she finds additional opportunities through printmaking, installations, and mixed media pieces. Included in the exhibition are ceramic masks, totems, bronze sculptures, and mixed media installations that span a 20-year period.

Born in Warm Springs, Or., in 1943, Pitt moved to Portland after high school, where she enjoyed a successful career as a hairdresser. When back problems forced her to change careers in the early 1980s, she enrolled at Mt. Hood Community College, where she took her first ceramics class. Since that time, she has emerged as a major regional artist and arts advocate.

In addition to the works on display, the exhibition features a text panel, artist statement, labels, and a major exhibition catalogue that chronicles the artist's career over the past 20 years. As a special feature, artist and curator Saralyn Hilde will discuss the work of Lillian Pitt on Friday, Jan. 23 from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Museum. Admission is free. A preview reception will follow from 6 to 8 p.m. in the lobby and galleries downstairs.

Lillian Pitt: Spirits Keep Whistling Me Home has been supported by an endowment gift from The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, through their Spirit Mountain Community Fund.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and admission is free on Tuesdays.

For further information, please call John Olbrantz 503/370-6854.

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St. Nicholas Icons at Hallie Ford Museum

From Nov. 1 through Jan. 3, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University will present a small exhibition of icons of St. Nicholas in its Study Gallery. Organized by Dr. Ann Nicgorski, associate professor of art history at Willamette and a faculty curator at the art museum, the exhibition features 24 icons on loan from American collections.

The exhibition is supported by a generous grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra in the fourth century AD, is one of the most revered and beloved Orthodox saints. He is especially celebrated for his piety and many acts of charity, as well as for numerous miracles, which earned him the acronym, the "Wonder Worker."

Over the centuries, St. Nicholas' legendary generosity and special love for children evolved into the custom of gift giving on his feast day, Dec. 6, and to his gradual transformation into Santa Claus.

Included in the exhibition are a number of Greek, Russian and Serbian icons that date from the 15th to the 20th centuries. The earliest icon in the exhibition is Russian and is dated to the early 16th century, while the most recent icon was written by the Portland, Ore., iconographer Heather MacKean in the early 1990s.

Among the various lenders to the exhibition are the Mark O. Hatfield Library at Willamette University, the Maryhill Museum of Art in Washington, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in California, and a number of private and public collections in Oregon, Wisconsin, Michigan and Massachusetts.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Nicgorski will present an illustrated slide lecture on the iconography of St. Nicholas Thursday, Nov. 6, from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the museum. Admission is free.

The museum is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free. There is no admission Tuesday.

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Yard Art Exhibit Offers Free Films and Demonstrations

In conjunction with its forthcoming Yard Art exhibition, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University will offer a wide variety of free films, workshops and demonstrations this fall.

A series of film segments from the Canadian television series, Weird Homes, will be shown Tuesday, Sept. 23, and Tuesday, Oct. 21, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Museum. Each segment focuses on a unique or weird home in the Pacific Northwest including Dick and Jane's Spot in Ellensburg, Wash., Richart’s Ruins in Centralia, Wash., The Funny Farm in Bend and The Little Mansion in Roundup, Mont.

In addition to the two-part film series, two artist demonstrations are scheduled. On Saturday, Sept. 27, from noon to 4 p.m. in the Museum’s downstairs’ lobby, Portland artist Thomas Rude will discuss the origin and development of whirligigs in the United States and will demonstrate various carving techniques. On Saturday, Oct. 25, from noon to 4 p.m., Portland artists David and Patsy Britton will discuss birds and bird ecology in the Pacific Northwest and will assemble several different birdhouses from found objects.

Finally, on Saturday, Oct. 11, from noon to 4 p.m., a yard art workshop for children will be offered also in the lobby downstairs. Graduate students from the Willamette University School of Education will guide children and their parents in the creation of their own yard art pieces for their backyards.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and Tuesday is an admission free day.

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Yard Art to Open in September

Contrary to popular belief, yard art was not born in Southern California in the early 1960s. The Egyptians and Sumerians developed the enclosed domestic gardens, while the Greeks and Romans developed the inner courtyard as a focal point for their homes. Formal gardens continued to be a prominent feature of many palaces and estates, while in 18th century England, many gardens were designed to evoke a wild, natural state.

A major exhibition of yard art will open Sept. 6 and continue through Nov. 1 in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

In the late 19th century, a number of European and American gardens featured hidden paths and surprise elements, such as fountains, gazebos, and birdbaths. Although contemporary homes are often prefabricated, they still routinely include fenced yards. Decorative elements such as birdhouses and whirligigs continue to proliferate, although they are mostly factory produced rather than handmade.

Yard Art has been designed to showcase the work of a number of contemporary artists from Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. Organized by Museum Director John Olbrantz, the exhibition features a wide variety of unique, one-of-a-kind pieces created for the backyard, including sculptures, fence posts, whirligigs, gazebos, fences, birdbaths, yard furniture, birdhouses, and weathervanes. While many of the artists in the exhibition are self-taught, others have formal training in the visual arts but have opted to work in a folk art style.

As a special feature, artists Dick Elliott and Jane Orleman will discuss the evolution of their folk art site, Dick and Jane's Spot, in Ellensburg, Wash., on Friday, Sept. 5, from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. Admission is free. A preview reception will follow from 6 to 8 p.m. in the lobby and galleries downstairs.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and there is no fee on Tuesdays.

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“Jacob Lawrence: The Hiroshima Series”

Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) was one of the foremost African American artists of the 20th century. In 1982, he was commissioned by the Limited Editions Club of New York to illustrate a special edition of John Hersey's book "Hiroshima," a chillingly objective account of the atomic bomb explosion in Japan. An exhibition of Lawrence's gouache paintings based on John Hersey's book will open Aug. 23 and continue through Oct. 25 in the Study Gallery of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

For the "Hiroshima" works, Lawrence chose an uncommon color scheme that included red, yellow, pink and blue. With his unusual color combinations, he captured the horror of the catastrophe. At the same time, he reduced his figures to white skulls and agitated silhouettes that echo, in powerful and graphic terms, the impact and the devastation of the atomic blast.

In conjunction with the exhibition, two films on the life and career of Jacob Lawrence will be shown: "Jacob Lawrence: American Artist" and "Jacob Lawrence: An Intimate Portrait." The two 30-minute films will be shown on Tuesday, Sept.16, at 7 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. Admission is free.

"Jacob Lawrence: The Hiroshima Series" is timed to coincide with World Views, the freshman interdisciplinary course that for the next four years will focus on war and peace. Future exhibitions tied to World Views will focus on Carl Hall's World War II drawings, glass sculptures by California artist and Vietnam vet Michael Aschenbrenner, and an installation by Georgia artist Nancy Floyd, who lost her brother in Vietnam in 1969.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and there is no admission charge on Tuesdays.

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New Exhibit Opens June 14 at Hallie Ford

A major exhibition of work by Gaylen Hansen, a nationally recognized Washington painter who lives and works in the Palouse region of eastern Washington, will open June 14 and continue through Aug. 23 in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. The exhibition features a range of works created over the past 20 years.

Hansen received his MFA degree from the University of Southern California in 1953 and moved to eastern Washington in 1957 to accept a teaching position at Washington State University, a position he held until his retirement in 1982.

Over the years, Hansen explored a wide variety of different styles until the mid-1970s, when he opted to “paint what amused him primarily." Central to his work since that time is a character known as the Kernal, a Western vagabond whose exploits in the wilds of the Palouse region of eastern Washington are filled with animals of gigantic proportions, front porch humor, and wildly improbable twists of fate. Through the character of the Kernal, Hansen, a relentless storyteller and raconteur, melds nature, anecdote, and a variety of art historical sources to create a wonderfully inventive and quirky mythology of place.

Hansen will present an illustrated slide lecture on his work Friday, June 13, from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall. Admission is free.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the Willamette University campus. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and Tuesdays are admission free.

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Local Artist Featured At Hallie Ford Museum

Terry Melton is a Salem painter, printmaker and retired arts executive who, in the early 1990s, created a portfolio suite of 18 serigraphs and 52 poems based on the Greek legend of Leda and the Swan. An exhibition of his portfolio, a recent gift of the artist, will open May 31 and continue through Aug. 13 in the Study Gallery at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

Melton holds a BA degree from Idaho State University and an MFA degree from the University of Oregon. He served as director of the Yellowstone Art Center in Montana, executive director of the Oregon Arts Commission, as a regional representative for the National Endowment for the Arts, and director of the Western States Arts Federation in New Mexico. Over the years, he has been featured in more than 50 solo and group exhibitions and is included in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free and admission is free on Tuesdays.

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Prints and Baskets At Hallie Ford Museum

From March 29 to May 24, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University presents "Joe Feddersen: Prints and Baskets." Organized by faculty curator Rebecca Dobkins and students in her museology class, the exhibition includes a range of Feddersen's prints and baskets from the past decade. The exhibition will be held in the lobby of the Study Gallery and in The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Gallery.

Feddersen is a highly regarded Native American artist and faculty member at Evergreen College in Olympia, Wa. Feddersen, who is Colville from eastern Washington, creates prints and baskets based on traditional Plateau designs. He has been featured in numerous one-person and group exhibitions over the past decade and is included in public and private collections throughout the region.

As a special feature, Feddersen will present an illustrated slide lecture on his work on Thursday, April 10, from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Hallie Ford Museum. Admission is free.

"Joe Feddersen: Prints and Baskets" is supported by an endowment gift from The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Spirit Mountain Community Fund, with additional support provided by the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are free, and Tuesday is a free day.

For further information, please call 503/370-6855.

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“Intersections: The Art of Jan Zach”

Jan Zach (Czech-American, 1914-1986) was a highly regarded Oregon sculptor and professor of art at the University of Oregon. A major retrospective of his work, "Intersections: The Art of Jan Zach," opens Saturday, Feb.1, and continues through March 29, at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. A free lecture series is also offered.

Organized by Professor Roger Hull, the exhibition will explore the range of Zach's work from his early drawings and paintings to his large-scale sculpture in metal and wood.

Born in Slany, Czechoslovakia, in 1914, Zach trained as a painter and decorator in Prague during the 1930s and came to the United States in 1938 to work on the Czech Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. Because of the Nazi invasion in 1939 and the Communist takeover in 1948, he never returned to Czechoslovakia. In 1940, Zach moved to Brazil and spent the next 11 years in Rio de Janeiro and in the nearby Brazilian countryside.

In 1951, he and his wife Judith moved to her hometown of Victoria, British Columbia, and in 1958, at the encouragement of Mark Sponenburgh, he joined the art faculty at the University of Oregon. Over the next 21 years, Zach emerged as an important teacher and mentor and trained several generations of sculptors, many of whom are still active in the region.

In addition to the drawings, paintings, and sculptures on display, many of which are part of the permanent collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the exhibition will be accompanied by text panels, annotated labels, a small companion exhibition of maquettes and small sculptures by the artist, a lecture series that attempts to place Zach's work within the context of his times, and a 96-page exhibition catalogue written by Professor Hull. The exhibition catalogue will retail for $24.95 and will be distributed by the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London.

The free lectures, all held in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Museum at 5 p.m., begin Friday, Jan. 31, with Roger Hull who will present an illustrated slide lecture on the life and art of Jan Zach.

On Thursday, Feb. 20, Dr. Jaroslav Andel, and independent curator and writer in New York, will deliver an illustrated slide lecture on Czech modern art in the early 20th century, with an emphasis on Prague art of the 1930s and the artistic milieu from which Jan Zach emerged.

On Thursday, March 6, Michael Hall, a collector and scholar from Michigan, will present an illustrated slide lecture on Jan Zach and American sculptural developments of the 1950s and 1960s.

"Intersections: The Art of Jan Zach" is supported by contributions from friends, relatives, and former students of Zach, with additional support provided by the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are free and Tuesday is a free day.

For further information, please call 503/370-6855.

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Ancient Vase on Loan To Hallie Ford Museum

“Celebrating Agon” features a single Panathenaic prize amphora on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition opens Aug. 31 and continues through Dec. 21 in the Study Gallery at the Hallie Ford Museum at Willamette University.

Curated by Dr. Ann Nicgorski, associate professor of art history at Willamette and a faculty curator at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the exhibition is timed to coincide with World Views, the freshman interdisciplinary course that emphasizes critical thinking, comparative analysis, and writing and whose focus has been on 5th century Athens for the past four years.

Once filled with precious Attic olive oil from a grove sacred to the goddess Athena, this remarkable vase served as a prize for the games of the Greater Panathenaic Festival held every four years in ancient Athens. Attributed to the Painter of the Warsaw Panathenaic and decorated in the black-figure style, the amphora features a depiction of the chariot race for which it was awarded, a statuesque image of the city goddess Athena, and an inscription that states "a prize from the games at Athens."

“Celebrating Agon” is supported by a generous grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free. Admission is free each Tuesday.

For further information, please call 503/370-6855.

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Lectures Coincide with Egyptian Exhibition

In conjunction with its forthcoming Egyptian exhibition, In the Fullness of Time: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from American Collections, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University has planned a major fall lecture series. Some of the foremost Egyptologists from throughout the United States will lecture on various topics related to the exhibition.

On Friday, Aug. 30, Dr. James Romano, curator of Egyptian, classical, and ancient Middle Eastern art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, will present an illustrated slide lecture on the social, philosophical, and religious basis of ancient Egyptian art, with an
emphasis on the objects in the exhibition.

On Thursday, Sept. 5, Dr. Kent Weeks, professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, will deliver the 2002 Hogue-Sponenburgh Lecture on the future of the Valley of the Kings and his discovery of KV5, the family tomb of Ramesses the Great, considered one of the most significant archaeological discoveries in Egypt in the 20th century.

On Thursday, Sept. 12, Dr. Lanny Bell, professor emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Chicago, will give a slide lecture on ancient Egyptian architecture, with an
emphasis on the social, political, and religious purposes of Egyptian temples and tombs.

On Thursday, Sept. 19, Dr. Cathleen Keller, associate professor of Egyptology at the University of California, Berkeley, will present a slide lecture on Egyptian painting
and wall relief, with an emphasis on the relationship between religious beliefs, writing, and the visual arts.

On Thursday, Sept. 26, Dr. Rita Freed, curator of Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will present a slide lecture on Egyptian sculpture, including the range of subjects explored by the Egyptian sculptor and the social, political, and religious purposes of Egyptian sculpture in the round.

On Thursday, Oct. 10, William Peck, curator of ancient art at the Detroit Institute of Arts, will give a slide lecture on the Egyptian personal arts, including ceramics, furniture, jewelry, clothing, metalwork, and wood, with an emphasis on their role in ancient Egyptian daily life.

On Thursday, Oct. 17, Dr. Diana Craig Patch, research associate of Egyptian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will give a slide lecture on the history of American Egyptology during the 19th and 20th centuries, with an emphasis on a handful of American scholars who would have a profound impact on the field.

The Romano and Weeks lectures will begin at 5 p.m., all others begin at 7:30 p.m. The Weeks lecture is in Cone Chapel in Waller Hall, all others are in the Paulus Lecture Hall in Willamette University's College of Law. Admission is free.

The lecture series is supported by a major grant from the Oregon Council for the Humanities, with additional support provided by the Salem Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America and an anonymous donor.

The Hogue-Sponenburgh Lecture Fund supports the Weeks lecture, with additional support provided by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art and the Salem Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America.

In the Fullness of Time: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from American Collections opens August 31 and continues through January 4, 2003. The exhibition presents a survey of Egyptian art and culture from 4500 BC to the end of the Roman period and features 48 objects on loan from some of the most distinguished Egyptian collections in the United
States, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. One of the underlying purposes of the exhibition is to introduce audiences in the West to important and rarely seen masterpieces of Egyptian art, including superb examples of painting, relief, sculpture, and the personal arts.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free. Admission is free each Tuesday.

For further information, please call 503/370-6855.

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In the Fullness of Time: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from American Collections

From August 31 through January 4, 2003, the Hallie Ford Museum
of Art at Willamette University will present In the Fullness of Time: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from American Collections. Organized by John Olbrantz, director of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, and consultant James F. Romano, curator of Egyptian, classical, and ancient Middle Eastern art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the exhibition presents a survey of Egyptian art and culture from 4500 BC to the end of the Roman period.

Included in the exhibition are 48 objects on loan from some of the most distinguished Egyptian collections in the United States, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Because very few examples of Egyptian art exist in this region, one of the underlying purposes of the exhibition is to introduce audiences in the West to important yet rarely seen masterpieces of Egyptian art, including superb examples of painting, relief, sculpture, and the personal arts.

Of Egypt's many legacies, none speaks more eloquently to modern audiences than her art. The Egyptian facility with color and line, mastery of obdurate stone, and skill in creating harmonious compositions, enthrall and captivate modern audiences. Yet much of what modern viewers believe about Egyptian art is plagued by misconceptions. How often have we read that Egyptian art is conservative, obsessed with death, or awkward and unskilled in its depiction of the human form?

In the Fullness of Time: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from American Collections seeks to dispel these fallacies. One of the exhibitions principle themes--Egyptian art was a dynamic phenomenon that functioned at a deliberate pace--is illustrated throughout the exhibition. By bringing together exquisite examples of Egyptian art that range from the
Predynastic period to Roman times, the exhibition highlights countless subtle but significant changes in Egyptian form, style, and iconography. Other themes explored in the exhibition include the "African-ness" of Egyptian art, the question of portraiture, the depiction of gender in Egyptian art, and the relationship between writing and the visual arts.

In addition to the 48 objects on display, the exhibition features text panels, annotated labels, photo murals, a map, a chronology, and a full-color exhibition catalogue with an introduction on the history of American Egyptology and an essay on the themes of the exhibition. The exhibition catalogue has been published in cooperation with the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London.

In order to broaden the scope of the exhibition, and to place the objects in their proper socio-cultural context, an extensive lecture series has been planned for the months of September and October. Some of the foremost Egyptologists from throughout the United States have been invited to lecture, including James Romano, Kent Weeks, Lanny Bell, and Rita Freed. In addition, a four-part film series has been planned for the months of October and November, and a one-day teacher workshop on Egyptian hieroglyphs has been scheduled for October.

Once the exhibition closes in Salem, it will travel to the Boise Art Museum in Idaho, where it will be shown from March 8-June 29, 2003.

In the Fullness of Time: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from American Collections is supported by a major grant from an anonymous donor, with additional support provided by the Wyss Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the City of Salem (through the City of Salem's Transient Occupancy Tax Funds).

The lecture and film series is supported by a major grant from the Oregon Council for the Humanities, with additional support provided by the Hogue-Sponenburgh Lecture Fund, the Salem Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, and an anonymous donor.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free. Admission is free each Tuesday.

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Art of Egypt Exhibit Includes Film Series and Lecture

In conjunction with its forthcoming exhibition, In the Fullness of Time: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from American Collections, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University will offer a four-part film series on ancient Egyptian culture and a Saturday workshop on Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The four-part series, "Egypt, Beyond the Pyramids," will be shown Oct. 22 and 29, and Nov. 5, and 12 from 7 to 8 p.m. Hosted by Peter Woodward and originally aired on the History Channel, the series explores some of the key elements of ancient Egyptian civilization from 3000 BC to the end of the Roman period.

"Mansions of the Spirits," shown Oct. 22, will explore the role of the temple in ancient Egyptian civilization.

On Oct. 26 from 10 am to 5 p.m., writer and lecturer John Sarr will offer a one-day workshop on Egyptian hieroglyphs. Sarr will introduce participants to the basics of reading ancient Egyptian so that by the end of the day, they will be able to read simple funerary inscriptions and pharaonic names. Sarr is currently president of the Oregon Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt and has taught similar courses at
Portland Community College.

"The Great Pharaoh and His Lost Children," shown Oct. 29, will examine the discovery of KV5 in the Valley of the Kings.

"The Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians," shown Nov. 5, will explore daily life in ancient Egypt, with an emphasis on the port city of Mendes.

"Death and the Journey to Immortality," shown Nov. 12, will examine the latest revelations about Egyptian funerary and burial practices.

The films and the workshop are in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. While the film series is free, the workshop is $55. To register for the workshop, please call 503/370-6855.

In the Fullness of Time: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from American Collections continues through Jan. 4, 2003. The exhibition presents a survey of Egyptian art and culture from 4500 BC to the end of the Roman period and features 48 objects on loan
from some of the most distinguished Egyptian collections in the United States, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
One of the underlying purposes of the exhibition is to introduce audiences in the
West to important, yet rarely seen masterpieces of Egyptian art, including superb examples of painting, relief, sculpture, and the personal arts.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free. Admission is free each Tuesday.

For further information, please call 503/370-6855.

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Art of Egypt Exhibit Includes Teacher Workshop

Area school teachers who want their students to visit the art of Egypt exhibit at Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University are encouraged to attend a teacher's workshop that will help them prepare students for a museum field trip.

The workshop is Monday, Sept.16, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. A reception will follow from 5 to 6 p.m. Teachers will have an opportunity to view the exhibition prior to their field trip. Although advance registration is required, admission to the workshop is free. To register, please call 503/370-6855. Ron Crosier, an education consultant and retired high school art teacher from Portland, researched and wrote the teaching kit for the exhibition.

In conjunction with its forthcoming Egyptian exhibition, In the Fullness of Time: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from American Collections, the workshop will help teachers prepare students for a field trip to the exhibition, develop strategies to tour the exhibition and/or design gallery activities for students, and propose ideas that reinforce the gallery experience and broaden curriculum concepts in the classroom. Although the emphasis of the workshop will be on the objects as art, teachers will be able to use these works to learn about the life and beliefs of this distant and remote culture.

The exhibit opens Aug. 31and continues through Jan. 4, 2003. The exhibition presents a survey of Egyptian art and culture from 4500 BC to the end of the Roman period and features 48 objects on loan from some of the most distinguished Egyptian collections in the United States, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. One of the underlying purposes of the exhibition is to introduce audiences in the West to important, yet rarely seen masterpieces of Egyptian art, including superb examples of painting, relief, sculpture, and the personal arts.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are admitted free. Admission is free each Tuesday.

For further information, please call 503/370-6855.

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Art of Egypt exhibit at Hallie Ford Museum of Art

The Art of Egypt exhibit runs Aug. 31 to Jan. 4 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University in Salem, OR. This is the ONLY west coast showing of these 48 spectacular pieces of art on loan from some of the most prestigious museums in the country. This exhibit may be one of the most important Egyptian art exhibits of 2002-03.

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“Betty LaDuke: Honor the Earth” Exhibit at Willamette

Betty LaDuke is a highly regarded Ashland painter and printmaker whose work focuses on multicultural issues and her travels to Asia, the South Pacific, Central and South America, and Africa over the past forty years. A major exhibition of her African work, "Betty LaDuke: Honor the Earth," focuses on a wide variety of food- related themes. It opens June 8 and continues through August 3 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.

LaDuke was born and raised in New York, the daughter of Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants. She traces her interest in other cultures to a multi-racial summer camp she attended as a youth and where she had an opportunity to work with African-American artists Charles White and Elizabeth Catlett, both of whom she credits as important mentors and role models. LaDuke lived in Mexico for a time, married Native American activist Sun Bear (Vincent LaDuke), and eventually earned her BA and MA degrees from California State University in Los Angeles.

Throughout her adult life, LaDuke has worked as a teacher and lecturer. She taught at the Grand Settlement House in New York in the late 1950s and at Stevenson Junior High School in Los Angeles in the early 1960s. In 1964, she accepted a full-time teaching position at Southern Oregon University in Ashland where she taught drawing, painting, and introduced a number of new courses on women artists and art in the Third World for 32 years.

In 1972, LaDuke went to India and spent a month traveling and sketching. This trip would have a profound impact on her life and would set the course for future journeys to Asia, the South Pacific, Central and South America, and Africa. Over the years, LaDuke has been featured in numerous one person and group exhibitions and is represented in public and private collections throughout the United States. In addition to her artwork, she has published six books and four videos featuring her work and travel.

Since 1986, LaDuke has been keenly interested in the people and cultures of Africa and has sought to portray the color, texture, and rhythms that dominate African rural life. In countries such as Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Togo, and Uganda, she has explored such universal themes as creation myths, birth, death, children, courtship, marriage, food production, markets, sacred sites, and the spirit's journey. With pencil and sketchbook in hand, she has visited a dozen African countries and captured her impressions of the people and how they relate to their environment. A strong subtext of her African work is food-related themes, including farming, harvesting, processing, marketing, food as myth, and food as ritual.

LaDuke will give an illustrated slide lecture on her work Friday, June 7, from 5 to 6 p.m. On Wednesday, June 12, at 7 p.m., two films on LaDuke will be shown: "Betty LaDuke, An Artist's Journey from the Bronx to Timbuktu" and "Africa, Between Myth and Reality." Both the lecture and films will be held in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. Admission is free.

"Betty LaDuke: Honor the Earth" has been supported in part by a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in Salem on the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission to the galleries is $3 for adults, $2 for students, and $2 for seniors. Children under 12 are admitted for free.

For further information, please call 503/370-6855.

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Miniature Paintings at Hallie Ford Museum

Ajay Garg, a deaf and mute artist from Jaipur, India, who creates small, detailed miniature paintings based on Indian mythology, will be featured in a solo exhibition in the Print Study Center at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. Organized by guest curator and research assistant David Roberts, the exhibition will feature approximately a dozen works created over the past few years. The exhibition opens April 25 and continues through August 17. The Augen Gallery in Portland represents Garg locally.

In order to broaden the scope of the exhibition, two special programs have been planned. On Thursday, April 25, from 7 to 8 p.m. also in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Hallie Ford Museum, Dr. Mary C. Lanius, a professor emeritus from the University of Denver and former curator of Asian art at the Denver Art Museum, will deliver an illustrated slide lecture on traditional Indian miniature painting. On Saturday, April 27, from noon to 4 p.m. in the downstairs lobby, artist Ajay Garg will offer a demonstration of his unique painting technique, which employs the use of a single-hair brush and a magnifying glass. Admission to both programs is free.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. HFMA members, Willamette faculty, staff, and students, children under 12, American Association of Museum members, and school groups are admitted free. Admission is free for all guests on Tuesdays.

For further information, call 503-370-6855.

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Hudson River Exhibit Lecture Feb. 6th

As a special addition to an exhibit currently available at Willamette University, collector Dr. Michel Hersen will discuss “The Poetry of the Hudson River School” Wednesday, Feb. 6, at 7 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall, Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center, on the Willamette campus. His presentation is free and open to the public.

Through March 9, the Study Gallery in the Hallie Ford Museum at Willamette will feature 18 American landscapes in the exhibit “The Hudson River School: Selections from the Michel and Victoria Hersen Collection.”

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at the corner of State and Cottage streets in Salem. It is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for senior citizens and students age 13 and older. Admission is free to children under 13.

For more information, call 503-370-6855.

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Exhibition Features Prominent Native American Artist

Willamette University's Hallie Ford Museum of Art will present an exhibit of work by Native American artist Rick Bartow Jan. 19 through March 16, 2002. "Rick Bartow: My Eye," the first major retrospective of his work, features 54 works in a variety of media on loan from public and private collections in Oregon, Washington, California and Arizona. The Bartow exhibit will travel across the country for two years after it leaves the University.

The show includes drawings, paintings, prints, and sculptures from 1986 to the present. Bartow, who is Yurok from northern California, draws on Native American mythology as well as that of Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the South Pacific. The exhibition's aim is to provide audiences with insights into the historical, aesthetic and cultural influences that inform Bartow's art.

An 80-page exhibition catalogue accompanies the exhibition with an introduction by Oregon writer Barry Lopez, a critical essay by exhibit curator Rebecca Dobkins, more than 80 color and black/white illustrations and an extensive biography of the artist. The Bartow book is published in association with the University of Washington Press.

Dr. Gerald McMaster, curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, will present an illustrated slide lecture on Bartow's work Friday, Jan. 18, from 5 to 6 pm in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Hallie Ford Museum. Admission is free.

On Saturday, Jan. 19, McMaster will facilitate a half-day symposium entitled "Sources of Sight: A Symposium in Conjunction with 'Rick Bartow: My Eye'" from 10 a.m. to noon, and again from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Paulus Lecture Hall, Willamette School of Law. Admission is free.

Financial support for the exhibition, publication and lectures is provided by an endowment gift from The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde with additional support from the Oregon Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Oregon Council for the Humanities.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at the corner of State and Cottage streets in Salem on the campus of Willamette University. Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for students and $2 for seniors. Children 12 and under are admitted free. For more information, please call 503-370-6855.

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“Pressure Points” Shows Best of Printmaking

"Pressure Points," an exhibit featuring 54 prints from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and the Jordan & Mina Schnitzer Foundation of Portland, Ore., opens Nov. 10 and continues through Jan. 5, 2002, at the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University, Salem.

The exhibition, which surveys major trends in contemporary printmaking, explores major themes including abstraction, autobiography, pop culture, social commentary, portraits and self-portraits, and words and messages.

"Pressure Points" features work in a variety of printmaking media, including aquatint, drypoint, etching, lithography, mono print, photogravure, woodcut, and screen print. Included in the exhibition are works by such artists as Mark Bennett, Enrique Chagoya, Tony Fitzpatrick, Jeff Koons, Julian Opie, Kiki Smith, and Kara Walker.

In addition to the works on display, text panels, annotated labels and a full-color exhibition catalogue will accompany the exhibition with an essay by Elizabeth Bilyeu, art historian and faculty member at Marylhurst University and Portland Community College. Once the exhibition closes at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, it will travel to Washington, Montana and Oregon in 2002 and 2003.

"Pressure Points" has been made possible by a major grant from The Jordan & Mina Schnitzer Foundation, with additional support provided by the Oregon Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the City of Salem's Transient Occupancy Tax Funds.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at the corner of State and Cottage streets in Salem. It is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for senior citizens and students age 13 and older. Admission is free to children under 13 and for Willamette University faculty, staff and students, as well as Museum members and school groups by appointment. Admission is free on Tuesdays. On Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the run of the exhibition, State of Oregon employees will be admitted for free with proof of ID.

For more information, contact the Museum at 503-370-6855.

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Hallie Ford Museum of Art Presents a Garden’s Majesty With “Botanica”

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art presents an exhibition that captures the beauty and magic of the formal garden with a mixed media installation by Montana artist Clarice Dreyer called "Botanica". This exhibit will open on Saturday, June 9 and continue through Saturday, August 18, 2001, in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery.

Dreyer's sculptures, cast in aluminum and bronze, include gazebos, arbors, birdhouses, carts, birdbaths and columns, often encircled with twigs and vines and cast in exquisite detail. Drawn from a variety of sources, Dreyer's installation incorporates the mysteries of nature with her memories of rural life, to create a metaphor for ordinary life as an aesthetic and spiritual existence.

Dreyer was born, raised and educated in Montana. She holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Montana State University and a master of fine arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been featured in dozens of one-person and group exhibitions over the past 20 years, has been awarded numerous art commissions throughout the West and is the recipient of several fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Montana Arts Council.

As a special feature, Dreyer will discuss her work in an illustrated slide lecture on June 8 from 5-6 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall, located inside the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is open Tuesday–Saturday from 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for students and seniors and free to children 12 and under, Willamette University faculty, staff and students. For more information on the exhibit or related programs, please contact the museum at 503-370-6855.

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Hallie Ford Museum Presents Southwestern Basketry

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art will present an exhibition of Southwestern basketry in the Study Gallery through May 19, 2001.

Organized by Anthropology Professor Rebecca Dobkins, the exhibition will explore the role of baskets in Southwestern myth, legend and life. Included in the exhibition will be rarely seen selections from the permanent collection, including outstanding works of Apache, Hopi, Tohono O'odham (Papago), Akimel O'odham (Pima) and Southern California basketweavers.

In conjunction with the exhibition, a wide variety of lectures and films will be presented. On Wednesday, April 4 at 7 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall, Dobkins will present an illustrated slide lecture on the historical development of Southwest basketry, with an emphasis on indigenous understanding of baskets and the creative adaptations weavers made in response to the expansion of the collector market in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. On Wednesday, April 18 at 7 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall, several films will be shown: "Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World" (color, 30 minutes) and "The Return of the Navajo Boy" (color, 60 minutes). Admission to the lecture and films is complimentary.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street in Salem. The galleries are open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students over 13 years old. Children 12 and under are admitted for free. Tuesday is a free day for all admissions. For further information or directions, call 503-370-6855, or visit the on the web.

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Hallie Ford Museum of Art to Exhibit Works on Oregon Landscape Artist Carl Hall

Willamette University Hallie Ford Museum of Art presents an exhibition on the work of Carl Hall (American, 1921-1996), a highly regarded Salem painter and teacher who captured the light, color and texture of the Willamette Valley and Oregon Coast.

A retrospective exhibition of Hall's work, "Eden Again: The Art of Carl Hall," will open on Jan. 27, 2001, and continue through March 24, in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery.

Carl Hall was born in Washington, D.C., raised in Detroit, Mich., and educated at the Meinzinger School of Art in Detroit. He served in the Philippines and Okinawa during World War II and moved to Oregon in 1946. Hall joined the faculty at Willamette University in 1948, where he taught for nearly 40 years and influenced several generations of artists. For Hall, the Oregon landscape represented a place of astonishing beauty and magic that he sought to capture in paint.

The exhibition, organized by Roger Hull, professor of art history at Willamette University and a friend and former colleague of the artist, will attempt to place Hall's work within the context of his times. The exhibition will include work that spans a 60-year period and will feature a number of early works that have not been seen for nearly six decades, including "Interlochen, Michigan," 1940, from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and "Cradles," 1947, from the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Objects have been drawn from public and private collections in Oregon, Michigan, New York, Indiana and Massachusetts for this exhibition.

This exhibition will be accompanied by an 80-page catalogue written by Hull. This catalogue will feature an extensive essay on the artist, 66 color and black/white illustrations, a selected biography of the artist and an extensive bibliography for further reading. The exhibition catalogue will retail for $19.95 and will be available at the Hallie Ford Museum Store.

A handful of Hall's pieces will also be displayed in the Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center during the run of the major exhibition. To introduce the exhibition, Hull will present an illustrated slide lecture on Carl Hall's work on Jan. 26 from 5-6 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art located at 700 State Street in Salem. The galleries are open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students over 13 years old. Children 12 and under are admitted for free. Tuesday is a free day for all admissions. For further information or directions, call 503-370-6855.

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Hallie Ford Museum of Art to Open New Exhibit, "Best of Both Worlds"

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