Many know the name Museum Art School, that changed to Pacific Northwest College of Art after a divorce. After a marriage it is now PNCA | Willamette - https://pnca.willamette.edu/. The Hallie Ford Museum at the Willamette Salem campus opens a 25 year retrospective of regional artists which is recommended.
The Oregon Alliance for the National Museum of Women in the Arts - https://nmwa.org/ is launching four lectures, Women and Art in the 20th Century.
First is Prudence Roberts, noted local curator, formerly senior curator at the Portland Art Museum, consultant to marque collectors and a professor.
Her topic is We Will Go Right Up to the Sun: Sonia Delaunay’s Multifaceted Career. Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) was born in Odessa, Ukraine and lived in France as an artist. She was the first living female artist with a retrospective in the Louvre in 1964. Delaunay was part of the "avant-garde circles in the early 20th century" and recieved the French Legion of Honor at age 95. Delaunay participated in the Orphist movement influenced by French avant writers and forming a bridge between Cubism and Abstract Expresionism.
Talk https://events.willamette.edu/e/5169 at PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 2PM-4 Free
