quiet mornings, quiet days

This week has been very quiet and calm with working at the Salem Art Association. My site supervisor Catherine is gone on vacation and without constant projects and duties to work on with her here, I am working on things I already know and have learned. I am helping Jennifer the gallery coordinator with doing random things around the Bush Barn. Once Catherine gets back sometime next week, I will be back doing loads of busy work and preparation for my participation in the Radius 25 showcase as the submissions for the call for artists is due by the end of May. I will most likely help with sorting of the artist submissions once they start coming in around that time. I also added more to the Young Artists' Showcase exhibition catalog as I am adding pictures from the Hillcrest submissions since they were highlighted in a Statesman Journal article recently.I added pictures of their artwork to correspond with the article and poems they wrote and submitted. Knowing I have a lot ahead of me, I am doing lots of quiet prep work and little tasks this week within the gallery.

Outside of SAA I have looked in-depth to drawings and wall drawings. Artists of particular interest would be Jim Dine and local artist Andrew Myers. Here is a drawing by Jim Dine that I especially enjoy as the muted monochromatic colors match the mood of these quiet and rainy days.