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Hallie FordHallie strokes Art Jan.–June, 2008, Vol. 10., No. 1 1/2/08 11:18:14 AM From the Director Yoruba Sculpture: Selections from the Mary January 30 James Lavadour: The Properties Michael Dailey: Color, Light, Time, of Paint closes

CALENDAR OF EVENTS OF CALENDAR 13 Don Bailey: Spider and the Bureau, Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery Hallie Ford (1905-2007) was a remarkable woman who left a significant legacy The Blanket Series closes and Place Johnston Collection Study Gallery April to Willamette University through her generosity and support. For more than 25 19 Yoruba Sculpture: Selections from the 3 Lecture ichael Dailey is a years, she provided close to $14 million for building projects, endowed positions, oruba Sculpture: Selections from the Mary Johnston Collection will fea- Mary Johnston Collection opens Piranesi: Views of Rome student scholarships, and the like. Her support of the Hallie Ford Museum of ture a range of ritual objects found among the Yoruba people of West Study Gallery Marnie Stark, Assistant Curator, Prints highly regarded and Drawings, Portland Art Museum Art for the past 10 years, in particular, was instrumental in our early growth Africa. Organized by Director John Olbrantz, the exhibition will open 20 Women’s Work: Contemporary Women Seattle painter and Jan.Y 19 and continue through March 16, 2008, in the Study Gallery and will Printmakers from the Collections of 7 p.m., Roger Hull Lecture Hall Mprofessor emeritus at the and development. feature 25 objects on loan from the Mary Johnston collection of Florence, Ore. Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family 11 Receptions University of Washington. A Included in the exhibition will be masks worn in various rituals, cult figures in foundation closes Senior Art Majors In 1996, for example, Hallie provided a $2 million gift to purchase a mid-1960s Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery 5–8 p.m., Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery major retrospective of Dailey’s bronze and wood and an elaborately carved 8' tall house post. Andries Fourie: Recent Work office building on the corner of State and Cottage streets in downtown Salem 31 Lecture work, Michael Dailey: Color, 5–8 p.m., Atrium Gallery and turn it into a “state-of-the-art” museum of art to serve the university, city and region. In recognition Yoruba Sculpture As a special feature Pam McClusky, curator of African and Oceanic Art at the Piranesi: Views of Rome Light, Time, and Place, will of her significant contribution, the Willamette University board of trustees voted to name the fledgling Seattle Art Museum, will give an illustrated lecture on Yoruba sculpture on Pam McClusky, Curator, African and Oceanic Art, Seattle Art Museum 5–8 p.m., Study Gallery open on June 7 and continue institution the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in her honor. Thursday, Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. in the Paulus Lecture Hall. In addition, an evening 7 p.m., Paulus Lecture Hall, College of Law 12 Senior Art Majors opens through Aug. 3, 2008, in the of films on Yoruba art and culture will be shown on Thursday, Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery February Melvin-Henderson Rubio Several years after we opened, Hallie and I were having coffee at her home in West Salem and she asked in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall. Admission to both the lecture and films is free. Andries Fourie: Recent Work opens Gelede Mask with Snake, 1 Forum Atrium Gallery Gallery and Print Study Center. me about the cost of exhibitions. I told her that they varied from exhibition to exhibition, and when Art/Culture/Homeland: Voices from the Michael Dailey, Beach Drawing 90:4, 1990 Bird, and Moon, she asked me what I thought we could do with $100,000, I nearly dropped my coffee cup. In my 30 Yoruba, Nigeria Umatilla Reservation 15 Tuesday Gallery Talk Andries Fourie Michael Dailey was born and years in the field, no one had ever asked me that question. Roberta ‘Bobbie’ Connor, James Lavadour, Antone Minthorn, Donald Sampson 12:30 p.m., Hallie Ford Museum of Art raised in Iowa. He received his BA and MFA degrees from the University of Iowa and taught at Rebecca Dobkins, Moderator 22– the University of Washington from 1963 until his retirement in 1998. An abstract painter of I responded to her question (or was it a challenge?) with our 2002 exhibition, In the Fullness of Time: James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint 4–6 p.m., Hudson Hall, Rogers Performing May 6 Tuesday Gallery Talks Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from American Collections. Organized by the late Jim Romano and myself, Art Center Senior Art Majors tremendous skill and prowess, Dailey has been featured in numerous one person and group 12:30 p.m., Hallie Ford Museum of Art the exhibition presented a survey of Egyptian art and culture from 4,500 BCE to the end of the ames Lavadour is a nationally recognized Native American painter Reception exhibitions over the past 45 years and is included in public and private collections throughout and printmaker well known for his exploration of landscape as Roman period and drew record crowds during the four months it was on view. James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint May the region. 6–8 p.m., Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery J both inspiration and subject. Since 2000, Lavadour has focused 11 Commencement Open House intensely on the properties of paint, creating works that he describes Yoruba Sculpture: Selections from the Noon–1:45 p.m., Hallie Ford Museum of Art Based on the stunning success of the Egyptian art exhibition and our lack of financial resources to Mary Johnston Collection For the past five decades, Michael Dailey has focused on the landscape. His early landscapes from mount major art historical exhibitions on a regular basis, Hallie stepped up to the plate in 2004 and as “intersections” between his better-known landscapes and his 6–8 p.m., Study Gallery Senior Art Majors closes the 1960s are big, expressionistic compositions of towering mountain peaks, dark forests lesser-known architectural structures. Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery provided a $1 million endowment gift that, over time, will generate enough funds to organize or borrow 2 James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint Andries Fourie: Recent Work closes and chiseled slabs of rock. By the early 1970s, however, his work became increasingly refined a major exhibition of historical art every two years. Our first Hallie Ford-endowed exhibition will be opens Atrium Gallery and abstracted as he strove to reduce the landscape to its basic elements of horizon, color, light From Feb. 2–March 30, 2008, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art will Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery presented in 2011 or 2012. present James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint in the Melvin 18 International Museum Day and atmosphere. 5– Free admission Henderson-Rubio Gallery. Organized by Rebecca Dobkins, faculty March 25 Tuesday Gallery Talks Hallie Ford was indeed a remarkable woman. Tough, ethical, intelligent and shrewd, she demanded the James Lavadour, Organized by Director John Olbrantz, the exhibition will feature 40–50 paintings and works Scaffold, 2002 curator of Native American Art at the Hallie Ford Museum of James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint Piranesi: Views of Rome closes highest standards in everything she supported. She lived a long and accomplished life, and though she Art and professor of anthropology at Willamette University, the Staff and docents Study Gallery on paper that span a 45-year period and will be accompanied by a full color monograph 12:30 p.m., Hallie Ford Museum of Art has passed from our midst, her legacy lives on in the museum of art she helped found and in the major art exhibition will examine the conceptual layers underlying Lavadour’s work of the past eight years. 24 Adam Bacher: Earth, Water, and Sky opens written by Robin Updike, former art critic for the Seattle Times. As a special feature Michael Study Gallery historical exhibitions and education programs that we can offer because of her vision and generosity. 5 Teacher Workshop Dailey and John Olbrantz will discuss the artist’s life and work on Friday, June 6 from 5–6 James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint June The exhibition will include 12 works drawn from regional and national collections and will be accompanied Elizabeth Garrison p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall; a preview reception will follow from 6–8 p.m. in the Thank you, Hallie, for your commitment and support! You will be missed. by a full-color brochure. In addition, a number of education programs have been planned, including a forum The Cameron Paulin Curator of Education 6 Dialogue A Conversation with Michael Dailey lobby and galleries downstairs. on Friday, Feb. 1 from 4–6 p.m. in Hudson Hall in the Rogers Performing Art Center and a symposium on 4–5:30 p.m., Hallie Ford Museum of Art John Olbrantz Michael Dailey, John Olbrantz Thursday, March 13 from 6:30–8:30 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall. Admission to both the forum and 7 Films 5–6 p.m., Roger Hull Lecture Hall The Maribeth Collins Director The World Began at Ile-Ife (color, 20 min.) symposium is free. Yoruba Ritual (color, 30 min.) Receptions 7 p.m., Roger Hull Lecture Hall Michael Dailey: Color, Light, Time, and Place 6–8 p.m., Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery March and Print Study Center 13 Symposium Adam Bacher: Earth, Water, and Sky Inside This Issue Collection Update The Properties of Paint 6–8 p.m., Study Gallery Adam Bacher: Earth, Water, and Sky James Lavadour, Willamette University 7 Michael Dailey: Color, Light, Time, and Place 8 faculty (TBA) opens Yoruba Sculpture: Selections from the Mary Johnston Collection Since the last issue of Brushstrokes, the Hallie Ford Recent donations include a major collection of regional Rebecca Dobkins, Moderator dam Bacher is a Portland photographer who captures the remote alpine regions and backcountry Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery and wilderness of the western United States, including the Oregon and Washington Cascades, the Museum of Art has acquired a number of significant art from Marge Riley, including works by C.S. Price, 6:30–8:30 p.m., Roger Hull Lecture Hall Print Study Center 8 works through purchase and donation. Recent purchases Charles Heaney and others; two Klickitat-style baskets Sierra Nevada of California, the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho, the Wind River Mountains of James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint 16 Yoruba Sculpture: Selections from the 12 Lecture include a mixed media piece by D.E. May; a painting and a corn husk bag from Bill Rhoades; dozens of prints Mary Johnston Collection closes Wyoming,A and the rugged terrain of Glacier National Park in Montana. A small exhibition of Bacher’s Earth, Water, and Sky 8 Piranesi: Views of Rome by Bonnie Hull; a painting by George Johanson; a from artist Joe Feddersen; several contemporary works Study Gallery Adam Bacher color photographs will open on May 24 and continue through July 27, 2008, in the Study Gallery. painting by Fay Jones; a hybrid instrument by Ken on paper from Kae Eyre; three hybrid instruments 17 Hallie Ford’s Birthday 7 p.m., Roger Hull Lecture Hall 8 Michael Dailey: Color, Light, Time, and Place Butler; a painting by Marie Craig; two drawings and from Ken Butler; six Fred Littman maquettes and Free admission 21 Workshop In conjunction with the exhibition, Bacher will deliver an illustrated lecture about his work on Thursday, June 12 at 7 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall. In addition, he will offer a nature photography workshop two paintings by Ruth Patterson Hart; a collage on paper a 17th century Sienese corpus from Bill and Beverly 22 Piranesi: Views of Rome opens Nature Photography 8 Calendar of Events by Eunice Parsons; two baskets by Joey Lavadour; and Galen; and a print by Jacques Callot from the Willamette Study Gallery Adam Bacher for adults on Saturday, June 21 from 1–4 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall and Bush’s Pasture Park. 1–4 p.m., Roger Hull Lecture Hall and Admission to both the lecture and workshop is free, although enrollment is limited to 15 students for a print by Phillip Charette, among others. University board of trustees in honor of Robert Packard. Bush’s Pasture Park the workshop and pre-registration is required.

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