Starting at zero On the sauna-like evenings this past week, Craig and I dug out our bathing suits and went off to the Marion Municipal pool. Initially, we both admitted some predictable trepidation – worries over exposing all that imperfect flesh and our merely adequate swimming skills, but all that dissipated with the first restorative [...]
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Roadtrip
March 3, 2011, 6:23 am
It was a remarkable afternoon. In the balmy temperatures of a Thursday in the midst of February – a sixty degree day not a week after we had endured cold in which the daily high did not rise above minus eight- I stood in one of the galleries at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, [...]
Winter weather
January 21, 2011, 8:13 am
I’ m going to be brief. It’s important to remember that complaining about weather – however hot, cold, icy, rainy or snowy – is pointless. In direct defiance of repetitious weather advisories forecasting ungodly cold, I have installed new work by Marcia Wegman and John Beckelman; displayed new pots by Sarah German; surrounded myself with [...]
Being a biped
October 27, 2010, 8:49 pm
I get up quite early in the morning- I always have. The mystery and quiet of the darkness at dawn has ever held me in its thrall. Lately, I have used this time to watch the flickering images of a video on my computer monitor: making her steady, but teetery, progress down a Brooklyn sidewalk, [...]
Introducing Thomas Agran
July 8, 2010, 7:09 am
Thomas Agran, working in his studio I remember instructing Thomas Agran to look for a small, gray-haired woman at the Grinnell College’s Bucksbaum Center for the Arts opening for the summer of 2009’s exhibit. I had a few pieces in the show, and I wanted to meet Thomas and visit his studio during the same [...]
Steve Lauterwasser + Talk in the MUD
June 8, 2010, 3:14 pm
“… John Preston and Steve Lauterwasser who sometimes paint together on god-forsaken roads have the big sky thing down…” James Duncan, Des Moines blogger Indeed, I know for a fact that Steve does have the “big sky thing down,” so to speak. When he lined his latest paintings up against the gallery’s baseboard, my first [...]
Summer hours!
June 1, 2010, 12:57 pm
Practicing expert customer service! Craig and I spend a lot of time discussing what gallery hours should be; far more than you would imagine! Almost all of our “traffic” happens on Fridays and Saturdays and during events, but we also want to be available to you and open as much as we can be. We’re [...]
Spring ephemerals
April 30, 2010, 9:06 am
…”springtime ephemeral –simply meaning it disappears back underground after its early display…” Violet “These will be so great for a Mother’s Day post!” Maggie crowed after I sent her my first drawings of some spring ephemerals that we hope to use for a collaborative project. In short, I’ve done the drawings and the plan is [...]
An advent calendar of Campbell Steele artists!
December 1, 2008, 6:52 pm
So, it’s happened to me. My postings on my blog have become erratic and infrequent. Somehow the fast train that is the momentum of time between now and Christmas had hijacked a more meditative self. That same self was jerked to life this past Saturday. Seventeen years has taught me that there is much wisdom [...]