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August 28, 2011
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July 20, 2011
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May 31, 2011
CourtCare Mural by Kari Dunham in Multnomah County Courthouse
This mural was painted as a part of a remodeling project for CourtCare. Designers Jessica Dunham of Yost Grube Hall and Sarah Weber designed the space, and many others, including Howard S Wright Construction, Uncommon Cabinetry and Markowitz, Herbold, Glade, and Mehlhaf donated time, money, and materials to make the CourtCare facility into a modern kid-centric space. The mural is 5′ x 6’6″ and the substrate is maple plywood. For more information on the CourtCare project visit this page of the Daily Journal of Commerce. 
April 23, 2011
Exile Poster Project
Child trafficking has come to the forefront as a serious problem in the city of Portland. In this exhibit Portland artists confront the issue of commercial sexual exploitation of children through the power of the poster. Opening receptions are Tuesday, April 26, 6-9 pm, and Thursday, May 5, 6-9 pm at 512 NW 9th Ave. For more information, visit Imago Dei Arts or Exile Poster Project.
January 23, 2011
October 5, 2010
Upcoming Shows from Missouri to Washington
This month I am excited to participate, along with other alumni, in the Student & Alumni Exhibit at the Evangel University Bellwether Gallery. About two weeks ago I shipped six paintings off in a large wooden crate, bid them farewell, and trusted they would enjoy their cross-country truck ride without me. I look forward to seeing them again in person when I travel to Springfield myself next week.
Student & Alumni Exhibit
Evangel University Bellwether Gallery
600 W. College, Ste. 116
Springfield, MO
Homecoming Reception: Saturday, October 16, 9:30 pm
The month of November will begin with a show of work by Grunewald Guild faculty & staff at the Inscape Gallery in Redmond, Washington. I am privileged to serve on the Guild’s faculty and to take part in this show. Inscape is an extension of Washington Seminary and the Guild is excited to be working with them.
Redeemed
A show by Grunewald Guild Faculty & Staff
12300 Woodinville-Redmond Road NE
Redmond, WA
Opening Reception: Friday, November 5, 7 pm
August 20, 2010
The figure en plein air in Portland
Summer in Portland has been touch and go this year, but the sun has peeked its head on several occasions. I did this painting on one such evening in my backyard about two weeks ago. “En plein air” is the French term for painting outdoors and is especially fun when barefoot on soft green grass. The colors I used were viridian green, yellow ochre, cadmium red, mars black, and titanium white. The painting is titled “Mary” after its subject, and was completed in about two hours. Finishing a piece in short period of time was refreshing as I also know what it is like to labor months on a single painting.
August 6, 2010
Grunewald to Diebenkorn
The rhythm of painting, teaching, and sitting down for meals framed my week at the Grunewald Guild, where I taught a beginning oil painting class July 5-11, “Learning to See: The Door to Painting in Oil.” The namesake of the Guild, Matthias Grunewald, was a German Renaissance painter and is most well known for his Isenheim Altarpiece. Interestingly, this altarpiece was painted for a monastery near a hospital; the Guild too is a place where people can come to rest and find healing. ”Grunewald” is also the German word for “green woods,” a fitting name for the Guild as it is nestled amid the trees of Central Washington. The Guild is located just outside of Leavenworth and sits along the beautiful and swift flowing Wenatchee River. Like the current of the river, the quotidian rhythm of Guild life created space and time to make–to make art, to make friends, and to make everyday moments into moments of joy and wonder.
In the painting studio, my students learned such skills as mixing paint with a palette knife, cleaning brushes, using paint thinner, and mixing colors. Exercises with an old wooden chair honed their abilities to see positive and negative space while exercises with a still life object focused their eyes to see color in light and shadow. All of the exercises I used with my students I gleaned from my undergraduate painting professor, Mike Buesking. In fact, I shared with my students an experience I had during my Painting 1 Class in which he brought a white plaster mold of a face up to the window and, pointing to a patch of green on the face asked us,”Where is this green coming from?” The answer? It was coming from the the grass outside! Reflective light had color! This was an epiphany for me; I was never to see the world the same again.
Not only was this a week to create, but it was also a week to meet new people. To my surprise, my week at the Guild included meeting Mara Adelman, a woman who modeled for Richard Diebenkorn! ”Wow! You modeled for Diebenkorn?” I asked her in disbelief. Diebenkorn was an abstract expressionist painter and was part of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. I greatly admire his work.
My time teaching at the Grunewald Guild this summer was beautiful and I look forward to many visits in the future.
