A lithograph of David Roberts’ 1838 sketch, “The Great Temple of Aboo Simble,” on display at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Visitors to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art this summer can take a journey down the Nile, seeing the temple of Ramses II and the[Read More…]
Tag: SALEM ART AND CULTURE
Salem artist April Waters explores Antarctic in Hallie Ford exhibit
April Waters on Marr Glacier in Antarctica, the landscape that inspired her exhibit of paintings on display at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art (Courtesy/Florence Yates) A few white knobs huddle below a blue ridge to the far side of a vast landscape of glacial ice, frigid water and sky.[Read More…]
Salem artist fashions colorful clothes from whiskey packaging
Artist Carlee Wright poses with some of the wearable art she creates from recycled container bags of bottles of Crown Royal Whiskey at the Salem on the Edge gallery (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)
New exhibit tells Kalapuyan story through colonization and persistence
David Lewis, anthropologist and curator of the Salem Art Association’s “Native Salem” exhibit, speaks at an opening reception on Nov. 11, 2021 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) “Salem didn’t start with Jason Lee.” That’s one takeaway David Lewis hopes visitors to the new “Native Salem” exhibit at the Salem Art Association will[Read More…]