Finding Mother
Lidoña Wagner’s Seed of Imagination: It’s about the journey
Upon meeting Lidoña Wagner I am presented with a guide to her book Seed of Imagination: An Ancestral Creative Journey. The guide is one printed … Continue reading
Ester Barkai
Author: Ester Barkai
Mystery is Beautiful
Claire Burbridge looks deep into nature in enormous drawings at JSMA
Claire Burbridge is moved by small things. Her drawings in Claire Burbridge: Pathways to the Invisible at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art are of … Continue reading
Vegan Taxidermy: It’s Art!
Conversations: Reflections of 14 Women Artists is at Maude Kerns Art Center through Feb. 7
When Marjorie Taylor made her first piece of vegan taxidermy she wasn’t sure what she’d done. “I didn’t know if I was making art or … Continue reading
Art and Contribution
The passions of New Zone’s Dianne Story Cunningham
Members of the art collective the New Zone Gallery get a guaranteed “Featured Artist” show once a year and a “Spotlight” show afterward. The relatively … Continue reading
Tiny Pricks
Artists across the U.S. are stitching some of the dumbest — and offensive — things Trump has ever said
This month President Donald Trump broke records — his own records — for tweeting. He tweeted and re-tweeted more than a hundred times in one … Continue reading
Dreams Before Extinction
Naeemeh Naeemaei’s paintings use fantasy in search of a greater truth
About a 100 years ago in Mazandaran Province in Iran, a young girl named Mina and a Persian leopard became friends. When Mina was older, … Continue reading
Eugene’s Racist Past
A New Exhibit at the UO Seeks to Provoke Dialogue and Action
When Charles Dalton came to Eugene about 50 years ago as a spokesperson for the NAACP, he went downtown to get to know the area. … Continue reading
‘Can You Tell That’s Me?’
The very special effects of Eugene’s Todd Bokich: Masks, boobs and sex toys
Visiting Todd Bokich’s studio in Eugene, I get a feeling I’m on a journey to the heart of darkness. In one of the rooms the … Continue reading
The Grateful Dead
Checking out Día de los Muertos at Maude Kerns Art Center
If the dead come back it’s usually not to picnic. But that’s how Melissa Sikes represents skeletons back from the dead in one of her … Continue reading
Antique Roadshow
Sean O’Reilly and Eugene Printmakers connect youth to the history of the press
It’s not many people I can bond with over memories of cutting ruby or amberlith screens, the artifacts of now-dead printing processes. “I loved cutting … Continue reading