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Hallie Ford Museum, Willamette
University
The Art Museum is located at 700 State Street, one
block west of the Willamette University Art Building in
Salem. Redesigned as the museum in 1997-98, the International
Style building was constructed in 1965 as the offices
for Pacific Northwest Bell. The structure contains some
27,000 square feet on three levels ( including basement);
it features marble cladding on its second story and, at
ground level, a screen wall of brown brick that encloses
a garden surrounding the building. The Hallie Ford Museum
of Art contains six galleries reflecting the range of
the developing art collection and mission of the museum.
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City of Salem Civic Center Art Collection
The City of Salem Art Collection is a publicly owned
citizen's collection of works encompassing a wide variety
of media and spanning more than fifty years of regional
art history. From Constance Fowler's Gardener Oregon,
painted in 1938, to James Hansen's recently restored
Crescent Probe (a metal water sculpture made in the
early 1970's), to Nils Lou's ceramic wall relief commissioned
in the early 1990s, the Salem co!lection includes a
variety of materials, styles, and periods of artmaking...
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The Flap Over the Venus Statue
It began as a kindly, thoughtful act of a humble man,
Carroll L. Moores. At his death in 1938, he left money
to commission a work of art to honor Oregon pioneers.
A committee decided on the venus statue and that's when
the uproar began. Sports fans said she had a sturdier
figure than the outfielders of the local ball team.
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Salem Art Association
The Salem Art Association (SAA) is a nonprofit, cultural
organization dedicated to art education, art appreciation
and historic preservation in Salem and the surrounding
communities. Founded in 1919, SAA has grown to become
one of the largest community arts organizations in Oregon.
SAA is responsible for the operation of Bush House Museum,
the Bush Barn Art Center, both in historic Bush's Pasture
Park and the Marjorie T. Sherman Visual ARTS Center, a
nearby classroom facility. Learn
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