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strokes Hallie university Ar Ford Vol. Jan.– t 1 3, No. June, 1/14/11 10:49AM 1 2 0 1 1 January 31 Lecture From the Director Lalibala: From Dynastic Center to Henk Pander: Memory and Modern Life 8 Henk Pander: Works on Paper opens Pilgrimage Site Ross Palmer Beecher: Americana Study Gallery and Print Study Center Over the past 12 years, one of the biggest challenges that the Hallie Ford Marilyn Heldman From Jan. 29 through March 16 Francis Celentano: Form and Color closes Visiting Scholar and Research Associate, Ross Palmer Beecher is a Seattle mixed media artist who has Museum of Art has faced is how to increase our membership and attendance, 27, 2011, the Hallie Ford Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of developed a highly personal iconography based on but thanks to a generous and timely three-year gift from Maribeth Collins, we Museum of Art will present a 28 Lecture African Art, Washington, D.C. American history, folk tales, colonial American art, and will finally be able to hire a full-time membership and public relations major retrospective exhibition Henk Pander: Memory and Modern Life 7:30 p.m., Roger Hull Lecture Hall aspects of contemporary American popular culture. A coordinator within the next six months to address these challenges. Indeed, Roger Hull April for the Dutch-born Portland Professor Emeritus, Art History and Senior mid-career retrospective of her work will open on June 4 Maribeth’s gift is extremely important and critical as we seek to broaden and painter Henk Pander. Organized Faculty Curator, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 8 Receptions and continue through July 31, 2011, in the Melvin increase our revenue sources in the current economic climate. Willamette University Senior Art Majors by Roger Hull, professor emeritus 6–8 p.m., Lobby and Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery. of art history at Willamette 5–6 p.m., Paulus Lecture Hall, Since we opened our doors in the fall of 1998, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art Willamette University College of Law Henderson-Rubio Gallery University and senior faculty Alexandra Opie: Mirrored Landscape Born in Greenwich, Conn. in 1957, Beecher studied at the has maintained a membership base of approximately 300 members, ranging Receptions curator at the Hallie Ford 6–8 p.m., Lobby and Atrium Gallery Rhode Island School of Design. After several years at RISD, from individual members at $25 per year to a handful of benefactor and patron members at $500 or Henk Pander: Memory and Modern Life Glory of Kings: Ethiopian Christian Art from Museum of Art, the exhibition 6–8 p.m., Lobby and Melvin Henderson-Rubio she decided to leave the East Coast and moved to $1,000 per year. Unfortunately, our membership base has not really grown in the past 12 years, in spite Oregon Collections will include works from the Gallery 6–8 p.m., Lobby, Study Gallery and Print Study Seattle in 1979. Many of her early sculptural works were of a growing permanent collection, a dynamic array of temporary exhibitions, and a host of education Henk Pander: Works on Paper past 50 years drawn from Center inspired by her native New England, especially colonial programs intended to inform, educate and delight. 6–8 p.m., Lobby, Study Gallery and Print public and private collections Study Center 9 Senior Art Majors opens American folk art, but as her career progressed throughout Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery the 1980s, she added found objects to her carved and Most membership consultants will tell you that a museum of art like the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Oregon, Washington and 29 Henk Pander: Memory and Modern Life opens Alexandra Opie: Mirrored Landscape opens Lobby and Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery painted surfaces. ought to be able to attract a membership base of more than 300 members. In a city the size of Salem Pennsylvania. Atrium Gallery February with a population of approximately 150,000 residents, for example, we should be able to attract and 12 Tuesday Gallery Talk Born and raised in Holland, Alexandra Opie Over the past 25 years, Beecher has created wall sculptures retain at least 1,500 to 3,000 members (1 to 2 percent of the population), but we need a permanent, 1 An Evening for Educators Pander immigrated to the Henk Pander: Memory and Modern Life 12:30 p.m., Atrium Gallery of flags, quilts and famous Americans made from aluminum full-time staff person to work on membership development. Salem itself requires this level of Henk Pander, The Burning of the New Carissa, 2000 United States in the 1960s and Elizabeth Garrison 19– cans and other found objects. Her flags are a tribute to attention. The Cameron Paulin Curator of Education May 3 Tuesday Gallery Talks Pop artist Jasper Johns, while her quilts are based on has lived in Portland ever since. 4–5:30 p.m., Lobby and Melvin Henderson- Senior Art Majors traditional quilt designs, such as Log Cabin and Feathered Similarly, we need a person dedicated to promoting and marketing the Hallie Ford Museum of Art on Over the years, he has maintained what Hull calls a cultural double vision: he documents and interprets Rubio Gallery 12:30 p.m., Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery Star, among others. Her portraits range from Harriet an ongoing basis, working closely and collegially with the print and electronic media to raise our American technology, materialism, topography and disaster in paintings, watercolors and drawings that 1–March 22 May Tubman and Ulysses S. Grant to Jackie Onassis and Dwight visibility and increase our attendance. For the past eight years, our attendance has ranged from 24,000– recall the grand tradition of Dutch art. Tuesday Gallery Talks 15 Commencement Open House Henk Pander: Memory and Modern Life Noon–2 p.m., Hallie Ford Museum of Art D. Eisenhower. 30,000 visitors per year but should be significantly higher based on the quality and diversity of our Staff and docents The exhibition will feature paintings in the lobby and Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery, watercolors in the Senior Art Majors closes collections, exhibitions and programs. 12:30 p.m., Lobby and Melvin Organized by Director John Olbrantz, the exhibition will Study Gallery and drawings, prints, posters and sketchbooks in the Print Study Center. In addition to Henderson-Rubio Gallery Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery Ross Palmer Beecher, George Alexandra Opie: Mirrored Landscape closes feature a wide range of mixed media works drawn from With the addition of a full-time membership and public relations coordinator this year, we look forward the works on display, the exhibition will be accompanied by a full color, 136-page monograph on the artist 3 Lecture Washington, 2000 Atrium Gallery public and private collections throughout the region. As to increasing our membership base, raising our visibility on a local, regional and national basis, and written by Hull. The book will be distributed by the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London. Crisis, Judgment and Salvation: A Case Study of Reform and Crusading Ideology in the 18 Film a special feature, Beecher will discuss her life and career in an illustrated lecture on Friday, June 3, 2011 lifting the Hallie Ford Museum of Art to new levels of personal involvement and professional recog- Riches, Rivals and Radicals: 100 Years of In order to broaden the scope of the exhibition, a wide variety of lectures and films will be presented. Romanesque Sculptures of Sovana, Italy beginning at 5 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall; a preview reception will follow from 6–8 p.m. in the nition as we seek to become one of the best small college museums of art in the country. Jill Greenwood Museums in America These include an illustrated lecture by Roger Hull on Pander’s life and career; a documentary film about Visiting Assistant Professor, Art History, (Color, 56 minutes) lobby and galleries downstairs. The following day, Beecher will make flags and quilts from aluminum cans Thank you, as always, for your commitment and support! the artist as seen through the eyes and camera of his filmmaker son; a documentary film about Pander’s Willamette University 7:30 p.m., Roger Hull Lecture Hall and found objects from noon to 4 p.m. in the lobby. Admission to her lecture and demonstration is free. creation of a portrait of Governor Tom McCall followed by a walking tour to the State Capitol to view the 7:30 p.m., Roger Hull Lecture Hall June John Olbrantz portrait; and a conversation between Hull and the artist on the last day of the exhibition. Admission to 13 Film 3 Lecture Painted Life: An Immigrant Artist’s Journey The Maribeth Collins Director the lectures and films is free. Ross Palmer Beecher: Americana (Color, 115 minutes) Ross Palmer Beecher 2 p.m., Roger Hull Lecture Hall For further information, see Calendar of Events. 5–6 p.m., Roger Hull Lecture Hall Lord and Schryver: March Reception 3 Film/Walking Tour Ross Palmer Beecher: Americana Shaping our Cultural Landscape Henk Pander and Tom McCall 6–8 p.m., Lobby and Melvin (Color, 49 minutes) Henderson-Rubio Gallery From June 22 through Sept. 18, 2011 in the Study Gallery and Print Study 11:30 a.m., Roger Hull Lecture Hall and State 4 Ross Palmer Beecher: Americana opens Center, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art will present an exhibition on the Capitol Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery gardens of Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver, two prominent Salem Inside This Issue Collection Update 13 Henk Pander: Works on Paper closes Artist Demonstration landscape architects who designed dozens of gardens throughout the Pacific Study Gallery and Print Study Center Ross Palmer Beecher 19 Glory of Kings: Ethiopian Christian Art from Noon–4 p.m., Lobby and Melvin Northwest, including numerous private gardens, parks and schools in Salem. • Henk Pander: Memory and Modern Life Since the last issue of Brushstrokes, the Hallie Ford Recent donations include two prints by Alfredo Oregon Collections opens Henderson-Rubio Gallery Organized by Professor Sharon Rose and historic Museum of Art has acquired a number of significant Arreguin from the artist; a major glass installation Study Gallery and Print Study Center 12 Glory of Kings: Ethiopian Christian Art from preservationist and artist Bonnie Hull, the exhibition will feature drawings, • Glory of Kings: Ethiopian Christian Art from Oregon Collections works through purchase and donation. Recent by California artist and Vietnam veteran Michael 27 Conversation Oregon Collections closes watercolors, photographs and related ephemera drawn from public and purchases include a painting by Seattle artist Alfredo Aschenbrenner from the artist; 18 photographs of A Conversation with Henk Pander Study Gallery and Print Study Center Roger Hull and Henk Pander private collections throughout the United States. • Arreguin; a painting by Salem artist John Coburn; Oregon by Michel Hersen from the artist; a painting 21 Reception Ross Palmer Beecher: Americana 2 p.m., Lobby and Melvin Henderson-Rubio Lord and Schryver: Shaping our Cultural a painting by Portland painter Marlene Bauer; a by Harry Widman from the artist; several pieces Gallery Landscape In addition to the objects on display, the exhibition will be accompanied by • Lord and Schryver: Shaping our Cultural Landscape drawing by Salem artist Rob Bibler; a painting by of West African sculpture from Eric Nickelson, Henk Pander: Memory and Modern Life 6–8 p.m., Jarman Garden, Salem, Oregon text panels, annotated labels, photo murals, a full color poster, and a full Portland painter Henk Pander; and a painting by including an Igbo mask and two Ibeji twin figures closes 22 Lord and Schryver: Shaping our Cultural color brochure that will document the architects and the exhibition. As Lobby and Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery • Calendar of Events Seattle painter Francis Celentano. from Nigeria; and several pieces of Chinese and Landscape opens a special feature, a wide variety of lectures and garden tours have been Study Gallery and Print Study Center Japanese ceramics from James McIntyre. Elizabeth Lord (left) and planned during the summer that will highlight the remarkable careers of Edith Schryver (right), these two pioneering women landscape architects. Admission to the lectures 1929, Salem, Oregon will be free; admission to the garden tours will be nominal.

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