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About What's happening. (Eugene, OR) 1982-1993 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1983)
Art Galleries Aperture Gallery, Erb Memorial Union, University of Oregon. Photography by Fred Byrum until Oct. 24. Regular EMU Artist Union, 985 Willamette St. Recent drawings by Mike Kelly and Tom Blodgett will be on exhibit through October. Hours: Tues.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Recep tion for the artists will take place Sat., Oct. 15 at 7:30 p.m. Artworks, Ltd., 291 E. 5th Ave. Posters by R.C. Gorman are on display through Oct. 22. Hours: Tues.-Sat., noon-5 p.m.; Sun. noon-5 p.m. Aurora Silk, 440 Blair Blvd. Chinese dragon robes are now the featured dis play. Hours: Fri.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Also by appointment. 683-2359. The Beanery, 790 E. 14th. Windows by Alan Scott will be on display through Oc Cafe Central, 384 W. 13th Ave. Stone ware by Lotte Streisinger and tapestry by Barbara Pickett will be on display Oct. 3-Nov. 5. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m. 11:30 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.* 11:30 p.m. Charles d’Lou wilddfe Galleries, 1316 E. 5th St. Specializes in state and federal stamp prints, eskimo carvings and decoys. Open daily. 343-9255 for hours. Community Center for the Performing Arts (WOW Hall), 291 W. 8th St. Flowers in watercolor by Jill Russell will be on dis play through Oct. 31. Hours: Tues.-Fri., Designworks, Fine Arts Gallery, Custom Framing, 1877 Willamette. Opening Sept. 24: Honda: master of mezzotints. Hours: Tues.-Sal., 10-6 p.m. Emerald Empire Art Association, 421 N. ‘‘A” St., Springfield. The Front Gallery features paintings in oil and watercolors by Laura Beyer, local artist. Hours: 11-4 Eugene Public Library, 100 W. 13th. Oil paintings and mixed-media work by John Kuhn are in the upstairs gallery through October. Regular Library hours. Faculty Club, University of Oregon, Col lier House,1170 E. 13th. Oils and water colors by Sarkis Antikajian, Germain Bennett, Ellen Gabeheart and Carol Man* fredi will be on display through Oct .2-31. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Fenters Studio and Gallery, Balcony Level, 5th Street Public Market. Exhibi tion of stained glass and fine art of ten outstanding local and regional artists. Also oils, watercolors, bronzes, glass. Oil and ceramics of Wanda Fisher will be fea tured during October. Hours: Daily, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Field Studio, 2727 Hilyard St. Paintings, ink and watercolors by Betty Field-Haley are shown by appointment. Call 485-2491. Green Earth Art Center, 1155 W. 1st. Oil paintings of Vi Patton are on display through October. Also on display are watercolors by Dottie Metzler, seascapes by Roberta Vandehey, acrylics by R. Bradford Johnson, palette knife by Kery Kinman and Ione Brown. Doris Prieto, Pat Renwick and Jan Cantwell also have displays. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m. High Street Coffee Gallery, 1243 High St. Symbols: An Exhibit of Feeling Art by Robert Hugo Paapanen is on display through Nov. 6. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sal. & Sun., 10 a.m.-11 Hult Center Gallery, Hult Center for the Performing Arts Community Room, Business Images, promotional graphics by Eugene area designers, sponsored by the Designers Forum. Sept. 9-Oct. 16. Hours: Daily, 8-6 p.m. Jeanie Stausberg Studio, Old Town, Flor ence. Portraits & pastels by Jeanie. 997-2931. Keystone Cafe, 395 W. 5th. Portraits in silver by Grant Handgis are on display through Nov. 7. Hours: Daily, 7 a.m.-2 p.m.; Fri.-Sun., 5:30-9:30 p.m. Lane Community College, Main Campus, 4000 E. 30th Ave. Art Faculty Show be gins Sept. 26 and runs through Oct. 19. Math & Art Bldg. Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 8 a.m.-IO p.m.; Fri., 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Maude Kerns Art Center, 1910 E. 15th. Opening Sept. 20 (through Oct. 15), pho tography by Jack Lui, works by Anne Baldwin, and the Lane Materials Cooper ative Ceramic Show, featuring Gil Harri son, Lotte Streisinger, Pauline Lasse, Faye Nakamura. Lynn Bowers, Faith Ra hill, Michael Keenan and Chris Gum. Hours: Tues.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat., noon-5 p.m. Mayor's Invitation Fine Art Show, Park Willamette Bldg. A collection of some of the region’s top artists. Call Mayor’s office for hours. Miller's Studio Gallery, 1277 Bay St., Florence. Oil paintings by Hours: Mon.-Sat., 997-7908. Al Miller. 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Old Friends, 1128-A Alder St. Mexican Folk Art exhibit includes Huichole yarn paintings, ceremonial masks in wood, ceramics and paper mache, weavings, hui piles, bags and wall hangings. Hours: Mon.-Sat.. 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Oregon Art Supply, 13th near Hilyard. Fiber by Barb Guthrie, pen and inks by Mike Logan, watercolors by Robert Hugo Paapenen, and oils by Janette Happer. Open seven days a week. Opus 5, 2469 Hilyard St. Pottery by Allen Kluber is on display through October. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Original Graphics, 122 E. Broadway. Hours: Tues.-Fri., 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Sat., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Partners in Time, Smeed Hotel, 767 Wil lamette St. An exhibit of Japanese Folk Art, called Mingei, will be on display Sept. 28-Oct. 14. Hours: Daily (except Sunday), 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Project Space Gallery, 39 E. 10th Return of the Jaded by gallery artists: Michael Bu kowski, Glen Diseth, Janet O'Doherty, Frank Fox, Robert Gibney, Harold Hoy, Byard Pidgeon, Nancy Powell, James Ul rick, Mike E. Walsh and Carol Westlake. From Sept. 24-Oct. 14. Hours: Tues. Sat., 12-5 p.m. Ragan Gallery, 95020 Hwy. 101 (between Sea Lion Caves and Yachats) features Robert Sherwood's seascapes in oil and Kohn Peterson's watercolors. Through October. Hours: Daily, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 1-547-3596. Soaring Wings, 760 Willamette St. Van* guard ’83 is the new fall show with Edith Hand, Ann LaRose, Robert MacGinnes and Takehiro Tairi. Exhibit runs from Oct. 1-13. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 9 a.m.-5:30 Springfield Museum, 6th and Main Streets, Springfield. Award-winning Fancywork; Embroidery, tatting, quilting and other textile creations are on display through Nov. 26. Hours: Wed.-Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. University of Oregon Museum of Art, UO campus. Running Oct. 2 through Nov. 6, an exhibit of one of the country’s most comprehensive collections of Ch’ing Dy nasty costumes will be on display. Also, landscape photographs by Utah photogra pher Craig Low will be on display through Oct. Hours: Tues.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. University of Oregon Museum of Natural History, UO campus, Science Complex, Karen: Buddhist Peasants of Thailand, is one of the cultures to be found in the ex hibit on southeast Asia. The display will look at the diversity of peoples there, in cluding clothing, tools, and influences from the west. Hours: Tues.-Sat., noon-5 Warehouse Artist Studios, 385 Lawrence St. Line drawings by Gary Kiefer; Art Deco Fantasy. Pen and ink work by an artist with a machine gun imagination! Toxins will be served. Opening reception Oct. 14. 8 p.m. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-3 p.m. WISTEC, 2300 Centennial Blvd. Physics Arcade, part of a series of hands-on expe riments and displays. Create your own magnetic vision. noon-5 p.m. Hours: Tues.-Sun., wow CON NCE U OIN1 This project is made possible by funds Irom the Oregon Arts Commission the City of Eugene Dept ol Parks and Recre ation with room tax funds and the Cut lural Forum MONDAY OCTOBER 17, 1983 7:30 p.m. Hult Center for the Performing Arts SORENG THEATRE lovee OnASE EDISONS e BAR, > resents F "becrets” / LVIB MUSIC/ Jhursdau, friday and - - t>aCu<A-diuie/fe6. 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It was the first book of fiction ever to be published by the presti gious Press, an honor which author Maclean gratefully ac knowledges in the preface of his “collection of Western Stories with trees in them.” Before his retirement, Nor man Maclean was a professor of English at the University of Chi cago; and long before his aca demic career, he was a woods man, fire fighter, and logger. It is from those early times in west ern Montana that Maclean draws his stories. In USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky. Maclean recalls the summer when he was seventeen and worked as a trail builder and fire fighter in the Elk Summit Dis trict of the Selway Forest, “just before the end of most of history that had had no four wheel drives, no bulldozers, no power saws, and nothing pneumatic.” It is a world of tough men and hard work and lost arts like packing equipment on a train of fifty mules and short backed horses. In Logging and Pimping and "Your Pal, Jim," Maclean re lives the summer following a year of graduate school when he worked on the end of a crosscut saw opposite a Jack Dempsey of a man who was determined to wear him down. Their test of wills, which is relentless and vir tually wordless throughout the Montana summer, becomes a kind of mutual respect at the season’s end and clearly shows the reader Maclean’s mettle. But it is in the title story, A River Runs Through It, that Norman Maclean has achieved the rank of master storyteller. A River Runs Through It describes the art of fly fishing, as prac ticed by the author, his father, and his brother, particularly on the Big Blackfoot River in the summer of 1937. The story is a tribute to the memory of Maclean’s father and brother, to the once pristine wil derness of western Montana, and to the pleasures of fishing according to a four-count cast ing rhythm. What saves the story from be ing strictly a technical account of an outdoor sport is Norman Maclean’s prose style. His lan guage is simple and direct, as be fits a storyteller of Scottish des cent who was raised in the Amer ican West. The laconic prose is the perfect vehicle for his wry sense of humor, which punctu ates the descriptions of fishing and the unfolding of the story’s plot. And because Maclean pos sesses consummate control over his language, there are passages in A River Runs Through It that resonate with meaning and beau ty. From his opening sentence, “In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing,” Maclean weaves a tale that is seamless and en chanted. The strength of love among the Maclean family members is the theme of the story, and the plot involves the obligations en tailed in family ties. Maclean and his brother, Paul, are duty bound to include the author’s brother-in-law, a bait fisherman who is also a braggart, in a fish ing expedition. The ensuing dif ficulties are both dismaying and humorous. But the theme of brotherly love is what Maclean explores throughout his reminiscence. Paul is a genius with a fishing rod but is also given to drinking, gambling, and street fighting. Maclean and his father, a Pres byterian minister, possess a love for Paul that passes understand ing, and A River Runs Through It is Maclean’s attempt to reach out to his elusive brother. And finally, there is the Big Blackfoot River, “the river we knew best,” that figures as a central character in the story. It runs straight and hard, due west from Rogers Pass on the Contin ental Divide to its eventual des tination in the Clark Fork of the Columbia. Formed by glaciers, the river is legendary in its power, as are its fish: “the water is too fast to let algae grow on the rocks for feed, so there is no fat on the fish, which must hold most trout records for high jumping.” it is to tne Big Dlacktoot that Norman Maclean has returned time and again, since nearly the beginning of the century, for challenge, for solace, and for communion. Listen to what he says: now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, al though some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Mon tana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing un til the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence - fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise. “I am haunted by waters,” Maclean tells us, and if you ven ture into A River Runs Through it, so too will you be. —Tim Volem ALANo, o ‘s COrd, ) ... A Magical Place A fine selection of books on personal & spiritual growth, psychology. healing, the occult. Records & tapes of music for mediation and relaxation Unique in Eugene. Records — Tapes Posters - Cards Incense Monday Saturday 106 • 790 E lith Ave • 485-4848
