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