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A Contemporary Bestiary If You Like What We Visit Our Museum Store AID Are Doing, Become Visit our museum store for a wide 52 a Member variety of art books and related merchandise. Remember, art Membership revenue helps support mit No.1 books and art-related gift items Salem, OR collections, exhibitions, education Per US Postage P make wonderful gifts for birthdays, NONPROFIT ORG and outreach, so if you like what we graduations and other special are doing, become a Hallie Ford occasions, and as a family or dual- Museum of Art member. level member, you receive a 10 As a member, you will enjoy the percent discount. many benefits we have to offer, Right: including unlimited free admission; Facility Rentals Robert invitations to previews and special McCauley, Located in the heart of downtown Edge of members’ receptions; discounts on Salem, the Hallie Ford Museum Town II art books and related merchandise; (detail), of Art is an elegant and unique annual subscriptions to Brush- 2012 setting for your next special strokes and Willamette University’s event, from cocktail receptions Below: magazine, The Scene; invitations to Deborah and dinners to business special lectures, films, concerts and Butterfield, meetings and presentations. For Red Forest tours; and more. further information on capacity, (detail), And, if you are already a member, availability, rental rates and 2013 consider giving a gift membership restrictions, call Carolyn Harcourt A Contemporary Bestiary features work by artists from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, to a friend or relative. Memberships at 503-370-6856 or visit Montana, and British Columbia who incorporate animal imagery in their artwork as make wonderful gifts for birthdays, willamette.edu/go/rent_hfma. a means to address a wide variety of issues. Organized by Director John Olbrantz, the graduations or other special occa- eet exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, ceramics, and photography sions. For further information, call d Museum of Art Free Days by artists Rick Bartow, Rachel Denny, Alfredo Arreguin, Mark Calderon, Fay Jones, Andrea Foust at 503-370-6867 or July–Dec., 2014 In addition to free admission every Robert McCauley, Sherry Markovitz, and Robert Davidson, among others. The n Service Requested visit willamette.edu/go/join_hfma. Tuesday throughout the year, the exhibition opens Sept. 13 and continues through Dec. 21, 2014, in the Maribeth Brush strokes Vol. 16, No. 2 Hallie Ford Museum of Art will Collins Lobby and Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery. Hallie For 900 State Str Salem, OR 97301 Retur Best Membership Value offer free admission Aug. 21–24 The exhibition features 56 objects on loan from public and private collections If you want to upgrade your for Opening Days, Sept. 12–14 throughout the region, including a number of objects from the permanent collection current Hallie Ford Museum of Art for Reunion Weekend, Oct. 3 in of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. A wide variety of animals are represented, including membership to the $100 level or celebration of our anniversary, and Frank Boyden birds, David Gilhooly frogs, Gaylen Hansen fish and dogs, Ed above, you will automatically be Oct. 10-12 for Family Weekend. Wicklander cats, Ted Wadell cattle, and Deborah Butterfield horses. In addition to the ible enrolled in the North American objects on display, the exhibition features a text panel, quotes from the artists, object Reciprocal Museums (NARM) Giving Opportunities labels, and quotes from James Lipton’s book An Exaltation of Larks. Program, which gives you free A wide variety of giving admission and discounts to more In conjunction with the exhibition, a dance performance and family activity opportunities are available at the than 690 museums in the United day have been planned. On Saturday, Oct. 4 beginning at 7:30 p.m. Hallie Ford Museum of Art, from States, Canada and Mexico. For in Hudson Concert Hall in the Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center, willamette.edu tools and equipment to exhibition @ further information on this exciting brothers Robert and Reg Davidson, two of Canada’s foremost sponsorship and beyond. For membership benefit, contact Haida artists, will bring their dance troupe, The Rainbow Creek further information, contact John Andrea Foust at 503-370-6867. Dancers, to campus for a special evening of traditional Haida Olbrantz at 503-370-6854. stories, dances, and songs. The following Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. in the Maribeth Collins Lobby and Melvin Henderson- Rubio Gallery, a family activity day will be offered that includes animal-related art projects and storytelling. Email: museum-art • is a biannual publication of the Hallie Admission to both the dance performance and family activity day is complimentary, although tickets are required for the dance performance and may be picked up at the front desk of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art on a first-come, first-serve basis Ford and students (0–17); Hallie Children beginning Sept. 1. GENERAL INFORMATION GENERAL INFORMATION Brushstrokes Museum of Art at Willamette University in Ford Salem, Oregon. LOCATION Museum of Art, Willamette University Hallie Ford Salem, OR 97301 700 State Street, address: Street Salem, OR 97301 900 State Street, Mailing address: 503-370-6855 willamette.edu/arts/hfma Website: HOURS 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sunday: 1–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday: Monday: Closed ADMISSION General $6; Seniors (55+) $4; Students (18+ with ID) $3. $4/person. School (8+ by reservation): Adult groups (with reservation) free groups: Free: Museum of Art members;University Willamette of Alliance and students; American staff faculty, day. is a free Museums members; Tuesday ACCESSIBILITY Museum of Art is wheelchair access The Hallie Ford of the building.on both floors via an elevator at the front A wheelchair is available for visitor use. of the building to A loading zone is available in front and pick up visitors. off drop For any special access needs, such as interpreters, please call. Museum of Art at Willamette University The Hallie Ford is a member of the American Alliance Museums. JULY 16 Evening for Educators OLLECTIONS REPRESENT THE HEART AND SOUL of the Hallie John James Audubon: The Birds of America Capital Projects A Contemporary Bestiary 18–19 Visit our booth at the Salem Art Ford Museum of Art, and thanks to a generous and timely endowment Recent Grants Elizabeth Garrison Fair and Festival gift from Portland philanthropist and art patron Maribeth Collins, we The Cameron Paulin Curator The Hallie Ford Museum of Bush’s Pasture Park Cwill be able to continue to purchase works of art for our permanent collection John James Audubon (1785-1851) of Education Thanks to a generous gift from Maribeth 10 a.m.–7 p.m. was a French-American painter, Art has recently received a 4:30–6:30 p.m., Maribeth Collins for years to come. Collins, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art has ornithologist, and naturalist. His major number of significant grants. 20 Visit our booth at the Salem Art Lobby and Melvin Henderson–Rubio been able to complete a number of significant From its beginnings in the 19th century, Willamette University has amassed a work, The Birds of America, is considered These include general operating Fair and Festival Gallery sizeable collection of historic and contemporary art, and in 1998, opened the support grants from the City of capital projects this past year. These include From the one of the finest ornithological books Bush’s Pasture Park 23 Film installing new porcelain tiles at the front 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Hallie Ford Museum of Art to house its diverse and growing collection. Among ever published; in it, he identified 25 Salem’s Transient Occupancy John James Audubon: Drawn from entrance to our building; adding hallway shelves Director the earliest objects to enter the collection was a “wallet” basket with a row of new species of birds. Organized by Tax funds and the Oregon Richard C. Elliott: Works on Paper Nature (Color, 54 minutes) in the basement; retrofitting our floor-to- birds, given to the Reverend J.L. Parish, one of Willamette’s founders, by the Director John Olbrantz, the exhibition Arts Commission; grants from closes 7:30 p.m., Roger Hull Lecture Hall ceiling display cases in the Mark and Janeth Clatsop Indian tribe in the late 1840s. A large collection of Native American features 30 prints from Audubon’s Creative Media, Inc. in New Study Gallery and Print Study Center Sponenburgh Gallery; and installing automatic OCTOBER baskets was given by Veda Cross Bird in 1940 and supplemented in the 1950s Royal Octavo Edition on loan from the York and artist Keith Achepohl Keith Achepohl: door openers in the men’s restrooms on the first AUGUST with gifts from other collectors. Western Oregon University Archives in support of 4 Member’s Appreciation Evening If It Please You Lord and second floors. In the mid-1950s the Rev. G. Bromley Oxnam, former president of DePauw in Monmouth. The exhibition opens ; a grant 2 John James Audubon: The Birds Wine and hors d’oeuvres University in Greencastle, Indiana, donated a collection of 19th century French Aug. 2 and continues through Oct. 26, from Caroline Rubio, mother of Other capital projects scheduled to be completed of America opens 5–7 p.m., Hallie Ford Museum of Art Members only landscape paintings to Willamette in honor of President G. Herbert Smith, 2014, in the Study Gallery and Print Melvin Henderson-Rubio ’74, this upcoming year include adding new furniture Study Gallery and Print Study Center in support of Richard C. Elliott: who had worked with Oxnam in the 1930s at DePauw as Dean of Freshmen. Study Center. and fixtures to our recently expanded museum 24 Richard C. Elliott: Primal Op closes Dance Performance Primal Op; and a grant from store; retrofitting our display cases to match our Maribeth Collins Lobby and Melvin The gift included works by some of the leading Barbizon painters of the day, In conjunction with the exhibition, The Rainbow Creek Dancers the Ford Family Foundation new display case and pedestal profile; adding new Henderson–Rubio Gallery Traditional Haida stories, dances, including Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny.