Current Exhibitions | Past Exhibitions

Senior Art Majors
April 11-May 17, 2009
Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior art majors at Willamette. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, photography, and mixed media. In addition, the exhibition features senior theses in art history.

James B. Thompson: The Vanishing Landscape
April 11-May 17, 2009
James B. Thompson: The Vanishing Landscape focuses on an important body of work that the artist has been developing for some time that explores the transformation of the rural western United States. Thompson holds an MFA degree from Washington University in St. Louis and has been on the art faculty at Willamette University since 1986.

From Hestia’s Sacred Fire to Christ’s Eternal Light: Ancient and Medieval Lamps from the Bogue Collection
March 14-May 17, 2009
Oil lamps were essential objects of daily life in ancient and medieval times, and every household would have owned several. Like other ceramics, the simplest oil lamps were plain and purely functional, while others contained ornamental and/or figural relief scenes, often taken from mythological or religious contexts. The exhibition features between 30-50 oil lamps from the Bogue collection at Portland State University.

Harry Widman: Image, Myth, and Modernism
January 31-March 29, 2009
Harry Widman is a Portland painter and professor emeritus from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. The exhibition surveys Widman’s career over a 60-year period in works that explore the possibility of a “meaningful shape” in abstract painting, the role that myth can play in contemporary expression, and the interplay between the physical strength of the athlete and the intellectual delicacy of the poet or philosopher in expressionist modern art.

Mary Randlett: Artist Portraits
January 10-March 8, 2009
Mary Randlett is a Washington photographer who has photographed and documented some of the most prominent artists, writers, poets and thinkers in Washington and Oregon. Since the late 1940s, she has been a frontline witness to the cultural evolution of the region. The exhibition features a range of Randlett’s best portraits of Oregon artists, including Carl Morris, Hilda Morris, Louie Bunce, and Frank Okada, among others.

The Art of Ceremony: Regalia of Native Oregon
September 28, 2008-January 18, 2009
The Art of Ceremony features historic and contemporary regalia from native Oregon, offering visitors a rare glimpse at the beauty, history, and meaning of regalia in tribal life and thought. Included in the exhibition are objects made of buckskin and beadwork from the Plateau region of eastern Oregon, objects with condor feathers from the Columbia River Gorge, and objects with feather and abalone shell decoration from the Oregon Coast.

The Second Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Biennial
October 11-December 21, 2008
The Second Crow’s Shadow Institute Biennial features contemporary prints created by Native American artists at the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts on the Umatilla Reservation in northeastern Oregon. Founded by Native American painter and printmaker James Lavadour (Walla Walla) in 1992, the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts seeks to create educational and professional opportunities for Native American artists to utilize their art as a vehicle for economic development.

D. E. May: The Artist as Archivist
November 8 - December 21, 2008
D.E. May is a contemporary Salem artist who works in a variety of media. A critically important Pacific Northwest artist, his work is nationally appreciated and is included in private collections across the country and in such public collections as the Portland Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York. The range of the work of D.E May is broad: refined abstractions, intimate sketchbooks, templates, architectural models, to name a few genres. His work, in general, defies classification. May’s art tells a story of obsession—obsession with materials and time. While the materials he uses allude to different past eras his artistic process reinvigorates them so that they cease to be relics and become contemporary objects, relevant to today.

Ruth Patterson Hart: Works on Paper
September 20 - November 2, 2008
As a young women in the late 1920s and 1930s, Ruth Patterson Hart studied at the Arts Student League in New York, spent a year studying etching in Florence, Italy, received her BFA degree from Mills College where she studied with Roi Partridge and with European modernists Hans Hoffman, Alexander Archipenko, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and earned her MFA degree from Colorado College. Back in Portland, she worked as a graphic designer and taught art classes at the Portland Art Museum School until she married attorney Allan Hart in 1941. The exhibition features approximately 40 works on paper on loan from Ruth Patterson Hart’s children: drawings, watercolors, and prints. Many of the works have not been seen since the 1930s, stored away in closets and under beds and yet bearing eloquent witness to a remarkable talent underestimated until recently.

The Collector’s Eye: Contemporary Art from the Leo Michelson Collection
August 2-October 5, 2008
Leo Michelson is a Portland resident and avid collector of contemporary art. Beginning in the late 1990s, Michelson donated a large portion of his collection to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, including works by Rick Bartow, Judy Cooke, Baba Wague Diakite, James Lavadour, D.E. May, and James Thompson, among others. The exhibition presents a range of artists and themes found in the Michelson collection.

Michael Dailey: Color, Light, Time, and Place
June 7-August 31, 2008
Michael Dailey is a Seattle painter and professor emeritus from the University of Washington. An abstract painter of tremendous skill and prowess whose work focuses on the deconstruction of the landscape to its basic elements of horizon, color, light, and atmosphere, the exhibition features 44 paintings and works on paper drawn from public and private collections throughout the region that span a 45-year period.

Adam Bacher: Earth, Water, and Sky
May 24-July 27, 2008
Adam Bacher is a Portland photographer who captures the remote alpine regions and backcountry wilderness of the western United States, including the Oregon and Washington Cascades, the Sierra Nevada of California, the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho, the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, and the rugged terrain of Glacier National Park in Montana.

Piranesi: Views of Rome
March 22-May 18, 2008
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) was an Italian etcher and archaeologist who, from 1748 to 1774, created his famous Views of Rome, a series of prints that depicted the eternal city's majestic ruins and that served for generations as the standard representations of Roman grandeur. The exhibition will include a range of prints drawn from regional collections, including Piranesi's Arch of Titus in the collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.

Senior Art Majors
April 12-May 11, 2008
Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior art majors at Willamette. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, photography, and mixed media. In addition, the exhibition features senior theses in art history.

Andries Fourie: Recent Work
April 12-May 11, 2008
Andries Fourie is the newest member of the art faculty at Willamette University. Born and raised in South Africa and educated in California as a painter and sculptor, Fourie's work addresses the horrors of war and the tragedy of apartheid. The exhibition will feature a range of work from the past few years.

James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint
February 2-March 30, 2008
Jim Lavadour (Walla Walla) is a nationally recognized Oregon artist who is well known for his exploration of landscape as both inspiration and subject. Since 2000, Lavadour has focused intensely on the properties of paint, creating works that he describes as "intersections" between his better-known landscapes and his lesser-known abstract architectural structures. The exhibition examines the conceptual layers underlying Lavadour's work of the past 8 years.

Yoruba Sculpture: Selections from the Mary Johnston Collection
January 19-March 16, 2008
Yoruba Sculpture: Selections from the Mary Johnston Collection features a range of ritual objects found among the Yoruba people of West Africa, including masks worn in various rituals, cult figures in bronze and wood, drums used in different ceremonies, beaded objects and garments, and house posts and architectural elements designed to bring favor on the household.

Women's Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and
his family foundation
October 27, 2007-January 20, 2008
Women's Work featured the work of contemporary women printmakers from the collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation. Included in the exhibition were prints by a number of contemporary women artists, including Anni Albers, Louise Nevelson, Louise Bourgeois, Suzanne Caporael, Fay Jones, and Kara Walker, among others. A wide variety of themes were explored, including abstraction, humor and satire, politics, race and gender, and the environment.

Don Bailey: Spider and the Bureau, The Blanket Series
December 1, 2007-January 13, 2008Don Bailey (Hupa) is a highly regarded painter and much beloved art teacher at the Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon. The exhibition presents a series of new work that reframes the complex legacy that formal and informal institutions have had on Native American life

Amanda Snyder: Structures
October 13-November 25, 2007
The Oregon artist Amanda Snyder (1894-1980) is well known for her paintings and prints of birds and clowns, but her renderings of architectural structures are less frequently seen. The exhibition presents a selection of Snyder's paintings of houses, farms, boathouses, and other structure-like formations, such as her still life study of C.S. Price's paint cans in the collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.

Ken Butler: Hybrid Visions
June 9-September 30, 2007
Ken Butler is a highly regarded mixed media artist who creates inventive and humorous hybrid instruments from found objects, including film-reel guitars, cowboy boot violins, axe cellos, Styrofoam-packaging pianos, and related artworks. Organized in collaboration with The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, the exhibition features approximately 60 works on loan from the artist, who was raised in Portland but has lived in New York for the past 25 years.

When 6 Was 9: Rock Posters from San Francisco, 1966-71
May 26-September 16, 2007
When 6 WAS 9: Rock Posters from San Francisco, 1966-71 will feature a wide range of posters from the collection of Gary Westfjord of Salem, Oregon. Used to promote rock concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium and Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco during the late 1960s and early 70s, these posters are remarkable for their strong design, psychedelic colors, and powerful imagery.

Ancient Glass: Selections from the Richard Brockway Collection
March 10-May 19, 2007
Ancient Glass: Selections from the Richard Brockway Collection will feature a range of ancient glass from 1,500 BCE to the sixth century CE. Included in the exhibition will be drinking vessels, tableware, toiletry vessels, and a host of other glass items from Egypt, the Near East, Greece, and Rome that demonstrate the ancient glass artist's skill and mastery of glassblowing techniques.

Senior Art Majors
April 14-May 12, 2007
Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior art majors at Willamette. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, photography, and mixed media. In addition, the exhibition features senior theses in art history.

George Johanson: Image and Idea
February 3-April 1, 2007
George Johanson: Image and Idea chronicles the life and times of this distinguished Portland painter, printmaker, and teacher, whose work focuses on bathers, swimmers, artists, and the streets and vistas of Portland, Oregon, a place he has called home since the late 1940s. The exhibition traces Johanson's career over a 60-year time period and features works drawn from regional collections.

John Van Dreal: Still Lifes and Figures
January 6-March 3, 2007
John Van Dreal: Still Lifes and Figures features recent work by this highly regarded Salem painter, who draws on Old Master techniques to create still lifes, landscapes, and figures that are reminiscent of Dutch painters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but with a contemporary feel. The exhibition includes work created in 2005 and 2006.

Fay Jones: Painted Fictions
November 18, 2006-January 20, 2007
Fay Jones: Painted Fictions features the work of this highly regarded Seattle narrative and symbolist painter who deals with a variety of autobiographical issues in her work, from growing up in New England in the 1940s and 50s to an exploration of a broad range of personal symbols that she has wrestled with for most of her professional life. The exhibition includes work from the past twenty years from Portland and Seattle collections.

The First Crow's Shadow Institute Biennial
October 28-December 22, 2006
The First Crow's Shadow Institute Biennial features a juried selection of contemporary prints created by Native American artists at the Crow's Shadow Institute on the Umatilla Reservation in northeastern Oregon. Founded by Native American painter and printmaker James Lavadour (Walla Walla) in 1992, the Crow's Shadow Institute seeks to create educational and professional opportunities for Native American artists to utilize their art as a vehicle for economic development.

Recycled Art
August 26-November 4, 2006
Recycled Art will feature the work of a number of regional artists from Oregon, Washington, and Idaho who fashion artwork from recycled materials. Included in the exhibition will be artists such as Ross Palmer Beecher, who creates traditional quilts from recycled aluminum cans; Gloria Crouse, who makes fanciful clothing from Glad bags; David Gilhooly, who creates miniature tableaus from recycled plastic action figures and old puzzles; and Ron Ho, who makes exquisite jewelry from found objects.

The James M. Floyd Memorial: An Installation by Nancy Floyd
August 5-October 21, 2006
James M. Floyd Memorial: An Installation by Nancy Floyd is a mixed media installation by Georgia artist Nancy Floyd, whose brother was killed in Vietnam in 1969. Through his letters, medals, peace symbol, snapshots of Vietnam, and letters from government officials, we get a glimpse at the very ordinariness of his life, the tragedy of his death, and it's impact on the artist and her family.

Frank Boyden: Prints and Books
June 10 - August 5, 2006
Frank Boyden: Prints and Books will feature the work of this highly regarded Oregon printmaker and founder of the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis, Oregon. A ceramic artist and printmaker, Boyden has explored a wide variety of themes in his prints over the past twenty years, including animals, the landscape, and most recently, the human figure. The exhibition will feature over 90 aquatints, drypoints, etchings, and lithographs drawn from the permanent collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, which has one of the largest collections of Boyden prints in the United States.

Jim Riswold: Göring's Lunch
May 27-August 5, 2006
Jim Riswold is an emerging Portland photographer whose work is edgy, provocative, and full of dark humor. His arrangement of toy models and plastic houses juxtaposed with Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and Tojo allows him to parody some of the most evil despots of the twentieth century.

Mel Katz: Recent Donations and Acquisitions
May 27-July 29, 2006Mel Katz: Recent Donations and Acquisitions features a number of recent donations and purchases by this important Portland sculptor and teacher, whose work is firmly rooted in the principles of geometric abstraction. The exhibition will include work from his Grey Series, Sawtooth Series, Pedestal Series, and Reveal Series.

Dean Porter: Taos Landscapes
March 18-May 20, 2006
Dean Porter is a painter, printmaker, art historian, and director emeritus of the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. For the past two decades, he has traveled to Taos, New Mexico to paint. The exhibition will feature a range of watercolors and woodcuts created over the past few years. Porter will deliver the 2006 Hogue-Sponenburgh Lecture on April 6 on "The Rise and Fall of the Taos Society of Artists."

Senior Art Majors
April 15-May 13, 2006
Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior art majors at Willamette. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, photography and mixed media.

Alexandra Opie: Recent Work
April 15-May 13, 2006
Alexandra Opie is currently on the art faculty at Willamette University, where she teaches photography and video. The exhibition features a range of work from the past few years.

Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands from the
Arthur M. Sackler Foundation
January 21-April 1, 2006
Organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation in New York, the exhibition features over 80 works that bring to life the complex cultures that flourished across the Asian grasslands from northern China and Mongolia to Central Asia and Eastern Europe during the late second and first millennia BCE. Included in the exhibition are bronze belt buckles, plaques, weapons, and other masterpieces of steppe art.

Tom Foolery: Miniature Environments
January 7-March 11, 2006
Tom Foolery is a Montana mixed media artist who creates miniature environments constructed inside theater spotlights that satirize the contemporary art scene. With an eye for wicked detail and insider jokes, Foolery creates miniature tableaus that feature pretentious art collectors, struggling artists, voluptuous art models, slick art dealers, and the like.

Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread
September 23-December 22, 2005
Organized by the Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures in Porirua City, New Zealand in partnership with Toi Maori Aotearoa - Maori Arts New Zealand, the exhibition includes superb examples of traditional as well as contemporary Maori weaving. Included in the exhibition are kakahu (high quality woven cloaks), whariki (woven floor mats), kete (finely woven baskets), and other exquisite woven pieces.
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Albert Patecky: Abstractions
October 29-December 22, 2005
Albert Patecky (1906-94) arrived in Portland in 1928 and worked as a cartoonist and illustrator during the 1930s and early 40s. An opportunity to study at the Art Students League in New York in 1945 introduced him to cubism and abstraction, and during the decade of the 1950s, he gained an international reputation as a non-objective painter. The exhibition will focus on his experimental, abstract works.

Michael Aschenbrenner: Damaged Bones
August 20-October 22, 2005
Michael Aschenbrenner is a California glass artist, a retired high school art teacher, and a Vietnam veteran who creates exquisite glass bone sculptures that serve as metaphors for the beauty and fragility of human life, of the artist's experiences in Vietnam, and of his coming to grips with the Vietnam War and its aftermath.

The Romantic Vision of Michael Brophy
June 4-August 27, 2005
Michael Brophy is a highly regarded Portland landscape painter equally committed to pictorial tradition and forceful storytelling. Through works that depict the savage beauty of the altered landscapes of Oregon's rivers, forests, and mountains, he carefully engages the social and political forces reshaping the national dialogues that define environmental preservation and sustainability.

Darius Kinsey: Big Trees
May 14-August 13, 2005
Darius Kinsey (1869-1945) was an important turn of the century Washington photographer who, with his wife Tabitha, chronicled the logging industry in Washington and Oregon. Drawn from the collection of the Whatcom Museum of History and Art in Bellingham, Washington, the exhibition includes a wide range of subjects, from giant cedars and skid roads to lumber mills and shipping ports.

Senior Art Majors
April 2-May 14, 2005
Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior art majors at Willamette. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, photography and mixed media.

Heidi Preuss Grew: Porcelain and Other Stories
April 2-May 14, 2005
Heidi Preuss Grew is on the art faculty at Willamette University, where she teaches ceramics and drawing. The exhibition will feature a range of work from the past four years.

Melville Wire: Oregon Impressionist
March 12-May 7, 2005
Melville Wire (1877-1966) was a minister in the United Methodist Church who served as a pastor in Oregon for over sixty years. In addition, he was an accomplished landscape painter and printmaker who captured the diverse landscape of the region. The exhibition features a range of works from throughout the artist's lifetime.

Charles E. Heaney: Memory, Imagination, and Place
January 22-March 19, 2005
Charles Heaney (1897-1981) was an important Oregon painter and printmaker who created a powerful body of work over a sixty-year period that is remarkable for its consistency, enormity, and complex emotional expressiveness. The exhibition features works that include his urban "demolition" series based on the razing of old buildings in Portland as the city modernized, his renderings of the remote landscape of eastern Oregon and Nevada, and his "portraits" of individuals, usually women, placed icon-like in the center of the picture.

Marie Watt: Everything is Drawing
January 8-March 5, 2005
Marie Watt (Seneca) is a highly regarded Portland mixed media artist and Willamette University alumna (CLA '90). The exhibition is a continuation of her blanket project, which explores the complexities of, and the human stories wrapped up within, this everyday object. It includes work from a solo exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, where Watt was recognized as one of the most talented contemporary artists of her generation.

Mary Henry: American Constructivist
November 13, 2004-January 8, 2005
Mary Henry is a highly regarded Washington painter who creates large scale, abstract works based on geometric shapes and patterns. A student of Moholy-Nagy at the Illinois Institute of Design in the 1940s, Henry has maintained a consistent vision firmly rooted in geometric abstraction and constructivism for over sixty years. The exhibition will feature a range of paintings and drawings created over the past two decades.

Between the Wars: American Printmaking in the 1920s and 30s
October 30-December 23, 2004
During the 1920s and 30s, a number of American printmakers explored various aspects of urban and rural life, rejecting the tenets of European modernism in favor of a realistic style firmly rooted in the work of the American painter Robert Henri. Included in the exhibition will be works by artists such as John Sloan, Rockwell Kent, Thomas Hart Benton, Gordon Gilkey, Raphael Soyer, and Isabel Bishop, among others.

Carl Hall: World War II Drawings
August 21-October 23, 2004
Carl Hall (1921-1996) was a Salem painter and professor of art at Willamette University for nearly forty years. As a combat soldier during World War II, Hall saw action on Leyte Island in the Philippines and on Okinawa. The exhibition will feature a number of drawings created between 1944-45 while the artist was stationed overseas.

Keys to the Koop: Humor and Satire in Contemporary Printmaking
September 4-October 30, 2004
Keys to the Koop features the work of 16 printmakers who find humor and satire in contemporary art, fashion, food, and popular culture. Included in the exhibition are works by Mark Bennett, Enrique Chagoya, Roy DeForest, Tony Fitzpatrick, Ellen Gallagher, David Gilhooly, Red Grooms, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Gene McMahon, Claes Oldenburg, Tad Savinar, Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker, and Willam Wegman. Works are drawn from the extensive collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation.

Mapping the Pacific Northwest: Mapmaking, Mythmaking, and Empire Building
July 3-August 28, 2004
A new exhibition of historic maps co-organized by Page Stockwell, a Portland map collector, and David Roberts, a researcher at
the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. The exhibition provides a fascinating
glimpse of the Pacific Northwest as it was transformed from a land of myth and mystery to a land that was hotly contested by major European and American powers.

Tom Fawkes: Terra Cognita
June 12-August 21, 2004
Tom Fawkes is a highly regarded Portland painter and teacher who creates meticulous landscapes and wood constructions of the Italian countryside. Based on rolls of photographs that he has taken on numerous trips to Italy, Fawkes' work captures the light, color, texture, and architecture of the Italian countryside. The exhibition will feature a range of works from the past decade, including a number of new works created specifically for the exhibition.

Myra Wiggins: Still Lifes
May 29-August 14, 2004
Myra Wiggins (1869-1956) was a nationally recognized Salem photographer with ties to Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo Secession. In addition to her photography, Wiggins was an accomplished still life painter. The exhibition will feature a range of still lifes executed over several decades.

Senior Art Majors
April 3-May 15, 2004
Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior art majors at Willamette. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, photography and mixed media.

Robert Hess: Recent Work
April 3-May 15, 2004
Robert Hess is on the art faculty at Willamette University, where he teaches sculpture and drawing. The exhibition features a range of work from the past four years.

Ancient Mexico: Meso-American Art from the
Caroline Tarbell Tupper Collection
March 20-May 22, 2004
Ancient Mexico features a range of Meso-American objects from the permanent collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, a recent gift of Caroline Tarbell Tupper. The collection, comprised of over 625 objects, spans over 4,500 years of Meso-American history and culture and includes objects from West Mexico, the Central Highlands of Mexico, and South Mexico.

Lillian Pitt: Spirits Keep Whistling Me Home
January 24-March 20, 2004
Lillian Pitt is a highly regarded Native American artist whose ceramics, mixed media sculptures, and installations celebrate the rich cultural traditions of the Columbia River people. Her works bring to life the legends and values of the Columbia River people, especially the women who have preceded her.

Helen Gilkey: Botanical Illustrations
January 10-March 13, 2004
Helen Gilkey (1886-1972) was a nationally recognized mycologist and botanical illustrator. During her long career as curator and director of the herbarium at Oregon State University, she published many books and articles on fungi and flowering plants. The exhibition will feature a wide range of her exquisite botanical illustrations, many of which have never been shown before.

In Search of the Real St. Nicholas: Orthodox Icons from American Collections
November 1, 2003 - January 3, 2004
St. Nicholas was the Bishop of Myra in the fourth century AD. Over the centuries, St. Nicholas's legendary generosity and special affection for children evolved into a custom of gift-giving on his feast day of December 6 and to his gradual transformation into Santa Claus. The exhibition features a number of exquisite icons of the saint on loan from American collections.

Robert Jones: Abstractions
November 15, 2003-January 10, 2004
Robert Jones is a highly regarded Seattle painter and professor emeritus at the University of Washington who creates large scale, abstract works characterized by strong compositional arrangements, bold lines, and intense colors reminiscent of the French Fauves and their German counterpoint, Die Brucke. The exhibition features a range of paintings and drawings created over the past two decades

Yard Art
September 6-November 1, 2003
Yard Art will feature one-of-a-kind pieces created for the backyard by artists from Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. Included in the exhibition will be sculpture, fence posts, whirligigs, gazebos, fences, birdbaths, yard furniture, birdhouses, and weathervanes. A number of artist sites will be featured in the exhibition, including Dick and Jane's Spot in Ellensburg, Washington.

Jacob Lawrence: The Hiroshima Series
August 23-October 25, 2003
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) was one of the most important African American painters of the twentieth century. In 1982 he was commissioned by Limited Editions Club of New York to illustrate a special edition of John Hersey's book Hiroshima, a chillingly objective account of the atomic bomb explosion in Japan. The following year Lawrence produced a limited edition series of prints based on the paintings.

Gaylen Hansen: Tall Tales
June 14-August 23, 2003
Gaylen Hansen is a nationally recognized narrative painter who lives and works in the Palouse region of Eastern Washington. Central to Hansen's work is a character known as the "Kernal, a Western vagabond whose exploits in the wilds of the Palouse region are filled with animals of gigantic proportions, front porch humor, and wildly improbable twists of fate.

Terry Melton: Leda and the Swan/Letters from Jupiter
May 31-August 16, 2003
Terry Melton is a painter, printmaker, and retired arts executive who, in the early 1990s, created a portfolio suite of 18 serigraphs and 52 poems based on the Greek legend of Leda and the Swan. The exhibition features the entire portfolio suite.

Senior Art Majors
April 12-May 17, 2003
Each spring the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior art majors at Willamette. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, photography and mixed media.

James B. Thompson: Selections 1999-2003
April 12-May 17, 2003
Professor James B. Thompson has been on the art faculty at Willamette University since 1986. The exhibition features recent paintings, drawings, and prints by the artist. Thompson's most recent one-person exhibition was at the Savage Gallery in Portland in Portland 2002.

Joe Feddersen: Prints and Baskets
March 29 - May 17, 2003
Joe Feddersen is a highly-regarded Washington artist and Professor of Art at Evergreen College in Olympia. Feddersen, who is Colville from Eastern Washington, creates prints and baskets based on traditional Plateau designs. The exhibition will feature a range of works from the past few years.

Intersections: The Art of Jan Zach
February 1 - March 29, 2003
Born and raised in Czechoslovakia, Jan Zach came to the United States in the late 1930s to work on the Czech pavilion at the New York World's Fair, moved to Brazil at the outbreak of World War II, immigrated to Canada in the early 1950s, and eventually settled in Eugene, Oregon, where he taught at the University of Oregon for twenty years and influenced several generations of artists. The exhibition explores the range of Zach's work, from his early drawings and paintings to his cast, constructed, carved, and laminated sculptures that serve as powerful statements about the struggle for human freedom.

Jan Zach: Maquettes and Small Sculptures
February 1-March 22, 2003
Organized in conjunction with a major retrospective exhibition for Oregon sculptor Jan Zach, the exhibition features a range of maquettes and small sculptures by the artist that were created as studies for the cast, constructed, carved, and laminated sculptures for which he is best known.

In the Fullness of Time
August 31, 2002 - January 4, 2003

In the Fullness of Time presents a survey of Egyptian art and culture from 4,500 BC to the end of the Roman period and features 48 objects on loan from American collections. One of theexhibition's principle themes - Egyptian art was a dynamic phenomenon that functioned at adeliberate pace - will be illustrated throughout the exhibition. Other themes to be explored in theexhibition include the "Africaness" of Egyptian art, the question of portraiture, the depiction ofgender in ancient Egyptian art, and the relationship between writing and the visual arts.

Celebrating Agon: A Panathenaic Prize Amphora from
Ancient Athens
August 31, 2002 - January 4, 2003
Celebrating Agon features a single Panathenaic prize amphora on loan from the MetropolitanMuseum of Art in New York. Once filled with precious olive oil from a grove sacred to thegoddess Athena, Panathenaic prize amphorae served as prizes for the games of the Panathenaic Festival, held every four years in ancient Athens.

Phyllis Yes: The Bread Project
May 25 - August 10, 2002
Phyllis Yes is a highly regarded Oregon artist and Professor of Art at Lewis and Clark College in Portland who, since the late 1990s, has focused on the medium of bread. The exhibition features a range of two- and three-dimensional works that the artist has created from bread.

Betty LaDuke: Honor the Earth
June 8 - August 3, 2002
Betty LaDuke is a highly regarded Ashland painter and printmaker whose work focuses on multicultural issues and the various places she has traveled over the past forty years. In the exhibition, which focuses on her African work, LaDuke explores a wide variety of food-related themes, including farming, harvesting, processing, marketing, food as a ritual, and food as myth.

Andrea Wallace: Recent Work
March 30 - May 11, 2002
Andrea Wallace is the newest addition to the art faculty at Willamette University. The exhibition will feature a range of photographs from Wallace's "Kremmling Series" and a recent video produced by the artist.

Senior Art Majors
March 30 - May 11, 2002
Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior art majors at Willamette University. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, photography, and mixed media.

Creating the Human Form
March 16 - May 18, 2002
The exhibition will feature a range of terracotta and stone figurines that date from 1500 B.C.E. to the Spanish Conquest, a recent gift to Willamette University from Caroline Tupper. These distinctive and exquisite statuettes demonstrate the different ways in which the human body was viewed, represented, adorned, and understood by the many cultures of ancient Mexico.

Rick Bartow: My Eye
January 19 - March 15, 2002
Rick Bartow is a highly regarded Native American painter and sculptor who lives and works on the Oregon coast and who draws on various mythological traditions as sources of inspiration for his art. The exhibition will feature approximately forty pastel drawings and twenty mixed media sculptures that span a fifteen-year period.

The Hudson River School
January 5 - March 9, 2002
During the nineteenth century, the United States witnessed a period of tremendous growth and expansion of its boundaries. Beginning in the 1840s, the Hudson River School painters sought to capture the beauty, tranquility and, at times, sheer power of the American wilderness. The exhibition will feature a range of works that celebrate the American
landscape from the Michel and Victoria Hersen collection.

Pressure Points
November 10, 2001 - January 5, 2002
Pressure Points features selected works on paper from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and The Jordan & Mina Schnitzer Foundation of Portland, Oregon. The exhibition surveys major trends in recent printmaking and includes works by artists such as Mark Bennett, Enrique Chagoya, Jeff Koons, Julian Opie, Kiki Smith, and Kara Walker, among others.

Emily Stuart
October 27 - December 22, 2001
Emily Stuart is a Salem mixed media artist who creates constructions from found objects. In this exhibition, Stuart will create a gallery installation from found objects that is intended to soothe, disturb, inspire, and provoke.

David Giese: Excavations at the Villa Bitricci
September 1 - October 27, 2001
In the early 1980s, while traveling in the Piedmont region of northern Italy, Professor David Giese discovered the remains of a fabulous country house/estate in the foothills of the Italian Alps. Based on archaeological, epigraphic, and literary evidence, Giese believes the house to be the longest continuously inhabited private residence in Europe, dating back to the 3rd century AD. The exhibition will feature a range of frescos and architectural fragments that the artist "claims" to have excavated at the site.Professor Giese will present a lecture, "The Pleasure of Ruins," at 5:00 p.m. on August 31 in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall.

Pilchuck Glass
August 18 - October 20, 2001
In 1971, with the financial support of John and Ann Gould Hauberg, glass artist Dale Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. With limited financial resources but unlimited creative energy, the school took hold of a movement barely out of its infancy and helped usher in a "glass renaissance" in this country and abroad. The exhibition will feature a range of works by Pilchuck artsists from the Patrick and Darle Maveety collection.

Botanica
June 9 - August 18, 2001
Botanica is a mixed media installation by Montana artist Clarice Dreyer that captures the beauty and magic of the formal garden. Organized by Director John Olbrantz, the exhibition is scheduled for the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery. Dreyer's sculptures, cast in aluminum and bronze, include gazebos, arbors, birdhouses, carts, birdbaths and columns, often encircled with twigs and vines and cast in exquisite detail. Drawn from a variety of sources, Dreyer's installation incorporates the mysteries of nature with her memories of rural life, to create a metaphor for ordinary life as an aesthetic and spiritual experience.

Stephen Soihl
May 26 - August 11, 2001
Stephen Soihl is an accomplished painter, sculptor and printmaker who lives in Portland, teaches at Portland Community College and is an active member of the Blackfish Gallery. A small exhibition of his watercolors, prints and cast resin pieces will be shown in the Study Gallery. Organized by Willamette University Art History Professor Roger Hull, the exhibition will focus on Soihl's botanicals and landscapes of the late 1980s and 90s, as well as his earlier abstract sculptures from the late 1970s and early 80s. A full-color brochure will accompany the exhibition.

Southwest Indian Baskets
March 24-May 26, 2001
The exhibition will feature a range of Native American baskets from the Southwestern United States, including a number of superb Apache baskets. Objects will be drawn from both the M.E. Polleski and E.C. Cross Collections.

Senior Art Majors
April 7-May 12, 2001
Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior art majors at Willamette University. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, photography, jewelry, and mixed media.

Bruce Black/Tracy MacEwan: Recent Work
April 7-May12, 2001
The exhibition features the work of painter Bruce Black and photographer Tracy MacEwan, both of whom are adjunct faculty members in the art department at Willamette University.

Carl Hall: Sunflowers
January 13-March 17
Presented in conjunction with the Carl Hall retrospective in the Henderson-Rubio Gallery, the exhibition will focus on a single painting, Carl Hall's Sunflowers of 1952, a work of particular importance to the artist and his family. The painting, a series of preparatory drawings, and a small, follow-up painting will be presented, together with text that explains the personal, economic, and memorial associations of Sunflowers.

Eden Again: The Art of Carl Hall
January 27-March 25, 2001
Carl Hall was on the faculty at Willamette University from 1948-1986, where he taught drawing and painting for nearly forty years. For Hall, the Oregon landscape represented a place of astonishing beauty that he strove to capture in his art. Organized by Professor Roger Hall, the exhibition will include works that span a sixty year period and that attempt to place Hall's art within the context of his times.

Information and Decoration
November 4, 2000-January 6, 2001
Reflecting the increasing awareness of distant territories, and continued pride in home places, during the Age of Expansion, maps of whole countries and particular towns were created to be both informational and aesthetic. The exhibition will present a range of engraved, hand-colored Dutch, French, and English maps of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries drawn exclusively from the Mark and Janeth Sponenburgh Collection.

Best of Both Worlds
September 9, 2000-January 13, 2001
Best of Both Worlds explores human and divine realms in classical art through approximately eighty objects of Greek and Roman art on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. A wide variety of classical themes are presented, including gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, mortal men and women, and animals, both real and divine. Objects include superb examples of Attic Black and Red-figure pottery, sculpture in marble and bronze, and a number of terra cotta lamps.

D.E. May: Greetings from Islandsalem
August 26-October 28, 2000
Born in Salem in 1952, D.E. May has lived and worked here his whole life, finding in "Islandsalem" the inspiration for small-scale mixed media abstractions that are notational, nostalgic, elegant, and alert to the formal inventions of modern art. Objects will be selected from the collection of Leo Michelson and others, as well as new work created specifically for the exhibition.

David Gilhooly: Plastics
June 17-August 26, 2000
David Gilhooly is an internationally-recognized Oregon clay artist who, since the early 1980s, has focused on the medium of plastic. As with his ceramic work, Gilhooly's plexiglas and plastic pieces ask each viewer to deliberate on religion, food, mass consumption, and other aspects of American culture, often through the use of irony and humor.

David Gilhooly: Prints
June 3-August 19, 2000
Since the early 1980s, David Gilhooly has produced a number of prints dealing with themes that parallel his clay and plastic work: art, religion, food, mass consumption, and other aspects of American culture. The exhibition will feature a range of prints from the past twenty years, a recent gift of the artist.

Senior Art Majors
April 8-May 20, 2000
Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior art majors at Willamette University. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, jewelry, and mixed media.

Heidi Preuss Grew: Recent Work
April 8-May 20, 2000

Heidi Preuss Grew is the newest addition to the art faculty at Willamette University. The exhibition will feature a range of ceramic sculptures and drawings that comment on the human condition.

Don Bailey: Warm Springs Landscapes
March 25-May 27, 2000

The soft, rounded hills of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation provide the inspiration for Don Bailey's acrylic landscapes. Bailey, who is Hupa from northwestern California, teaches art at the Chemawa Indian School in Salem and has inspired a generation of young Native American artists.

Jacob Lawrence: American Printmaker
January 29-March 25, 2000

Jacob Lawrence is one of the foremost American artists of the twentieth century. Swept up in the vigorous social and cultural millieu of Harlem during the Depression, Lawrence drew upon Harlem scenes and African-American history for his subjects, portraying the lives, hopes, dreams, and aspirations of African-Americans. In recent years, he has focused on a wide range of subjects, including African-American history, builders themes, libraries, and Biblical subjects.

Steichen, Rodin, and the Modern Nude
January 15-March 18, 2000

As the female nude in Western art underwent an abstraction, Edward Steichen helped introduce the modern nude to American audiences in a series of photogravures published in Alfred Steiglitz' famous journal Camera Work. At the same time, he was instrumental in the publication of Auguste Rodin's abstract drawings of the nude in a subsequent issue of Camera Work. The exhibition will feature a selection of Steichen photogravures, Rodin heliographs, and related work that, for American audiences at the time, extended the limits of art.

American Works on Paper, 1945-1975
November 20, 1999-January 15, 2000

American Works on Paper, 1945-1975 features forty-two works on paper from the collection of the Washington Art Consortium. The exhibition surveys major trends in American art from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s, including Abstract Expressionism, Hard Edge Abstraction, Pop art, Op art, and Minimalism. Included in the exhibition are works by Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Francis, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin, and Robert Ryman, among others.

Glen Alps: Collagraphs
November 6, 1999-January 8, 2000

Glen Alps was an internationally recognized printmaker who, at the University of Washington in 1956, developed the printmaking technique of collagraphy, which combined elements of collage with traditional printmaking processes. The exhibition will feature a range of the artist's work from the past forty years, a recent gift to Willamette University from the Glen Alps estate.

Michael C. Spafford: Myths and Metaphors
September 11-November 6, 1999

Michael C. Spafford is a Seattle painter, printmaker, and professor emeritus from the University of Washington. Since the early 1960s, Spafford has focused on themes from Greek and Roman mythology in his art. Whether he is exploring the Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs, Europa and the Bull, Twelve Labors of Hercules, or Leda and the Swan, classical mythology has provided him with a host of metaphors to examine issues of emotional and physical struggle and conflict.

Perfumes and Potables
August 28-October 30, 1999

Perfumes and Potables: Precious Pots from the Ancient Mediterranean will feature a small selection of Mycenean, Greek, and Etruscan pottery from Corinth, Athens, and South Italy. Drawn from regional collections in Oregon and Washington, these vessels feature a variety of styles and were used primarily for pouring and drinking wine, or as containers to hold precious perfumed oils. Unlike Greek sculpture and theater, this less costly art form was largely created for a private audience and thus offers a different perspective on Greek religion and society that can deepen visitor's understanding of fifth century Athens.

Petland
June 19-August 28, 1999

Petland was the name of the Spokane pet store run by centenarian Mamie Rand. Before she died in the mid-1990s, Ms. Rand gave mixed media artist Kathryn Glowen permission to mine her personal effects and business archives to create an intimate portrait of an ordinary yet extraordinary woman and a work of art that turns one woman's life into a universal poem about living and remembering.

Featured in the Study Gallery are a series of notebooks of material owned by Mamie Rand, including sheet music, photographs, personal letters, pet store paraphenalia, postcards, US patents owned by her father, magazine articles, advertisements, and so forth. Visitors are encouraged to sit down and leaf through Mamie's notebooks at their own pace.

Loans from Chicago: Selections from the Dan and
Nancy Schneider Collection
April 17-May 29, 1999

Since 1994, Dan and Nancy Schneider of Chicago have donated a wide range of American and European art to Willamette University. The exhibition features a variety of works by Midwest artists loaned by the Schneiders in honor of the inaugural year of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.

Kristin Kuhns, Mary Lou Zeek
April 10-May 22, 1999

Kristin Kuhns and Mary Lou Zeek are part-time faculty artists at Willamette University. Kuhns combines clay, fiber, and paint to create mixed media pieces influenced by mathematics and the natural sciences. Zeek creates both functional vessels as well as life-size, figurative work.

Senior Art Majors
April 10-May 22, 1999

Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior art majors at Willamette University. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, jewelry, and mixed media.

Exit: Photographs by Dean McNeil
February 6-April 10, 1999

Dean McNeil is a New York photographer and sculptor who photographs funerary portrait sculpture in cemeteries across Europe and the United States. The exhibition features 10 photographs taken in cemeteries in New York, Paris, Prague, and Vienna.

Robert Hess, Sculptures
January 30-March 27, 1999

Robert Hess is a highly regarded Oregon sculptor and professor of art at Willamette University. The exhibition includes a range of sculpture and drawings from the past fifteen years and features a number of new drawings made on his recent sabbatical to Spain.

In the Midst of Life: Photographs by Dale Whitney
December 5, 1998-January 30, 1999

Dale Whitney is an American photographer who, during the 1960s, documented refugees in Austria, Hungary, Germany, Italy, and Greece for the United Nations. In the late 1960s, she worked for the World Health Organization and the United Nations in Asia. Most recently, she has focused on the landscape of Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii. The exhibition includes 24 works that span a forty year period and were donated by the photographer in 1998.

Nancy Lindburg, Paintings
November 21, 1998-January 16, 1999

Nancy Lindburg is a highly regarded Salem painter and Oregon arts activist. The exhibition features variety of paintings, drawings, and mixed media pieces that span a forty year period, including portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and purely abstract works.

Yemen: Mountains, Villages, and the
Traditional Architecture of Sana'a
September 26-November 28, 1998

Yemen: Mountains, Villages, and the Traditional Architecture of Sana'a features 24 works by Said Nuseibeh, a San Francisco photographer who traveled to Yemen in 1994.

Oregon Biennial
September 26-November 7, 1998

The Oregon Biennial is a traveling exhibition of work in a variety of media by artists from throughout the state. Organized by the Portland Art Museum and sponsored by AT&T Wireless Services, the exhibition includes the work of Lee Imonen '94, a wood sculptor, and Marie Watt '90, a mixed media artist.