The Anderson Women
May 22 - September 7, 2008

Annette “Mère” McConnell Anderson wrote these words upon her graduation in 1900 from Newcomb College. This exhibition spans four generations of artistic expression by Anderson women. Oil pastels and paintings by “Mère” are shown together with contemporary castings of some of her ceramic pieces. Fine pottery and decorated pieces by granddaughters Patricia Anderson Findeisen and Adele Anderson Lawton will be on view with watercolor paintings and ink drawings by granddaughters Mary Anderson Pickard and Leif Anderson. Also shown are screenprints from Walter Anderson's linoleum blocks by Carolyn Fournier, wife of grandson Billy.Great-granddaughter Mary Annette Muneoka is carrying on the artistic tradition with crayon drawing, sharing her grandfather Walter's interest in using a medium not typically utilized by artists

Gretchen Haien
Photographs from “SeaZen” and “Interior Frontiers”
Jo Love Little Gallery
August 21, 2008 – October 26, 2008

In these two bodies of work, SeaZen and Interior Frontiers, Gretchen Haien invites us to try a new way of seeing and seeking answers to larger life questions.

“Interior Frontiers" uses the frame or photographic edge to abstract a would-be interior or street scene, reordering shapes from reality into a new perception for the viewer.  These studies earned her the "Emerging Artist to Watch in Photography" by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.

“Sea Zen” takes us on a stroll along the water’s edge, noting a solitary rock or a beached one-person dinghy.  Framed to be viewed as if through a ship’s porthole, the lone observer wonders whether this is a view of serenity and solitude or loneliness and isolation.