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
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Making Architecture Great Again
Our golf-resort president calls for a federal design code and disses the designer of Eugene’s courthouse
It’s nice to discover, at long last, that Eugene’s Wayne L. Morse Federal Courthouse is officially un-American. Who hasn’t suspected this all along? When the … Continue reading
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
Photographing Plankton off Oregon
A talk with photographer Sarah Grew
Eugene artist and photographer Sarah Grew recently spent two weeks aboard a research vessel off the Oregon coast creating cyanotypes of plankton. The unusual science/art … 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
Catching Shadows
The UO has one of the best editions of Edward S. Curtis’ photographic masterpiece The North American Indian
The life of photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis might serve as a cautionary tale. After teaching himself the basics of the photography trade, Curtis spent years … Continue reading
Give a Schnitz
New boss at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art talks about his new job, the role of a university museum in the community
John Weber took over this fall as executive director at the University of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Formerly the director of the Institute … 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