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OREGON ART PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCENES

October 31, 2023 by

Art people live in every state, every country. This map shows state size based on population. Oregon looks pretty small compared to New Jersey. What follows are Oregon art people.

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GEORGIA O’KEEFFE REINVENTED

October 11, 2023 by

  Georgia O’Keeffe reinvented how we look at clouds. You probably thought Joni Michell did it first? Nope, I’m making the call.

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REINVENTING ARTISTS AND ART IN TIGARD

May 22, 2023 by

Reinventing artists is one way of saying, “Wow.” You read about photographers and writers, see their work, and buy something they made. It’s different when you meet them in a setting outside a museum, gallery, or library. They are real people, which is easy to forget when you hold their work.

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PICTURE GREATER WITH CHARLIE SANDBO AT TIGARD ART WEEKEND 2023

May 21, 2023 by

Picture Greater challenges us with: How did you get that picture. I’ve always wondered how skilled photographers did it. Now I know. They do it with patience and vision. The end result is falling in love with an image. Charlie Sandbo is matchmaker between you and a print you need, but didn’t know. Now you […]

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SANDWICH GENERATION GRANDY MAKES THE RIGHT CALL

June 13, 2018 by

I am in a storage space in my house throwing away rings of gauze and squirt bottles of skin care and wound cleaner. It’s a throwback moment with Grandy, my mother in law who passed two years ago. If I had PTSD I would have been thrown back. Instead it was a sweet memory. But […]

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WILLIE VLAUTIN SAVES LIVES

November 7, 2015 by

Richmond Fontaine is the name of Willie Vlautin’s band. Like Creedence Clearwater Rivival was the name of John Fogerty’s band, and Foo Fighters is Dave Grohl’s band, Willie is a musician comfortable without his name in lights. There’s no me, me, me with some guys and it’s a relief. They let their work speak for […]

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ART WALK OF SE PORTLAND, AESTHETICS AND SWEAT

March 3, 2015 by

It’s The Art Walk Of Portland, Not Breaking And Entering. Art As Beauty. My art guru suggested a Saturday art walk. I had a week to think about it, but said yes right away. Art and walk both sound like a good time. Art Walk? Twice the fun. Ceramics, paintings, and all inside houses you’d […]

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