I have had the stoneware pieces that I own by Jerry Kessler sitting on my desk for over a week and a half, as if somehow they would inspire some profound thoughts about the significance of his death. Craig and I have known Jerry and Deb Kessler for thirty years. We met in Omaha when [...]
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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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Orthodontics Through the Ages, or How I Spent My Winter
April 22, 2010, 7:04 am
Dr. William Olin I have done a lot of crazy things in a lifetime lived as a “working artist”. Pair that status with a lifetime spent with Craig (easily the most outrageously creative person I have ever known), who seems to have an inexhaustible supply of great ideas, often, (but certainly not always!) executed by [...]
Galen Lacey
February 15, 2010, 7:45 pm
In the wake of the momentous floods of 2008, I found myself without a framer. The Art Cellar, which had so capably put up with the specificity of my idiosyncratic framing needs for over twenty years, had been, along with the rest of downtown Cedar Rapids, inundated by 8 feet of the teeming waters of [...]
An instinctual teacher
September 10, 2008, 6:30 pm
I came upon the word “polymath” in a review by Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times. It means: “a person of great learning in several fields”. I know a lot of people who know a LOT about one thing, but the only true polymath in my personal experience has been David Goodwin. On the [...]
New work from Larry Welo & Mary Weisgram
August 14, 2008, 6:51 pm
Larry Welo woke up at 4 a.m. on Thursday, August 7th and methodically circuited through a series of pick-ups and deliveries to the galleries representing his work that dot eastern Iowa. We count ourselves lucky to know this creative soul and to exhibit his etchings. The insight and quiet humor that are revealed in Welo’s [...]