Randall Children's Hospital

I was commissioned to create five large sculptures for the new Randall Children's Hospital in Portland, Oregon in winter of 2011-12. Each floor of the building is a different ecoregion of Oregon, so I created two pieces for the Cascade region (bear with lupine and hummingbird and gray wolf with bluebird and trillium,) one for the Willamette Valley (Brush Hare with Western Tanager and Daisies) and two for the coastal region (puffin with sea anenome and Brown Pelican with Silverspot butterfly and violets.)

Here's a slide show that takes you through the process from drawing to sculpture!

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Hello Beautiful Person!

If you've been a long time, even if occasional, reader of this blog, you may have noticed that I don't post here as much as I used to. Most of what once landed here has been going to my Facebook page, and I now see this blog as a place to occasionally post on smaller works of note, or a more in-depth focus on installations of other large-scale art projects as they come to life. Fortunately, Facebook now has a handy dandy subscribe feature, so if you're already part of that network and want to join me there, simply login, search for my name, and you can figure out what to do next, I'm sure.

As I mentioned before, I do intend to keep using this 6.5 year old chronicle of my art adventures in the future, so if you want to tune in for my active periods, I suggest you sign up for my email list and then you'll get a better sense of when to catch up over here when I'm actively blogging away.

Cheerio!
Hilary

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Don't forget my 2012 workshop in OZ!

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Elephabet on OPB!

Being a big time public radio geek, I was thrilled to be recently profiled in a nice little video piece about Elephabet on Oregon Public Broadcasting's website--by jeweler and erstewhile videographer Sarah Fox!

Click here to watch the video!

hellooooooooo!

I just finished a brand new book and animation called Elephabet, which collectively feature over 100 elephant sculptures I created last summer.



Velvet da Vinci Gallery has a selection of elephants from the book on display, and I have some others for sale here.

Also have some of my organic necklaces in the Sparkle Plenty show at Quirk Gallery, which you can read about here.

new podfuls

I made two new pieces for the Woodworks show at the University of South Carolina that I'm excited about! Here are some shots of my work. You can learn more about this show by clicking here, which includes Bihn Pho, Todd Hoyer, David Ellsworth, Betty Scarpino, and more stalwarts from the wood domain.

Exhibition in Motion, redux

I can't agree more with this thoughtful review by Gabriel Craig on the AJF Blog of this year's Exhibition in Motion | Objects Performed. You may recall my Epiphyte shoulder piece which was selected to be in this usually fantastic part of the SNAG Conference.
Here's the video of the Exhibition in Motion performance--judge for yourself before or after reading Craig's review.


I had much higher expectations than the actual performance offered, but really appreciate Craig's concluding comment that whether or not this show was successful, it reveals that there's so much potential out there for collaboration between dance and craft. I've been talking to dancer Carla Mann in the past few months about a future epiphytes project, so I'll let you know how that evolves.

velvety delicious

Just got this yummy blown-out image of my work installed on the wall at Velvet da Vinci!

naturally, unnaturally

Exciting to hear about Velvet da Vinci's upcoming August show--a traveling exhibition of Australian contemporary jewelry called Unnatural Acts. There's even a blog for this show co-written by co-curators Lauren Simeoni and Melinda Young, so you can follow it as it tours the world. I'm pretty sure this piece isn't in the show, but I am especially in love with Kiwi Nadene Carr's colour challenge, pictured here and on the Unnatural,Naturally blog. The only thing I do know about the show is there's a collaborative piece partially done by my new friend Anna Davern, but we'll have to wait for the images. I'm hoping I can somehow make my way down south to see what promises to be another great collection of wearable art and soak in some Aussie culture for next year's journey down under.

I love the way he describes his process.

A musical house for New Orleans

CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY : Making other crafts jealous.

I have been thinking so much about all the wonderfully LARGE jewelry I saw folks sporting at the recent SNAG conference, so when I saw the recent photo shoot on the Art Jewelry Forum Blog by Jennifer Cross Gans the other day, I was happy to relive some of the high points. Here I am in my Arthur Hash necklace. (The reflector pin on the right is one I swapped with Lloyd Herman!)The big grayscale pin on the right of Betsy Douglas' bosom is the one piece from SNAG that I really can't get out of my mind, so I'm thrilled to be able to show it to you. It's by Marjorie Schick and is such a simple, elegant painted canvas piece with a stick pin to hold it in place. It also has a full spectrum reverse side for two--count 'em, TWO!--wearing options.

Here's Jillian Moore (above) wearing one of her ambitious plant critters.

And, just to turn the tables a bit, I found this great image of Jennifer Cross Gans (above) herself from another website. There are more great portraits by JCG at the AJF site, but I'll leave you with one of my all time favorite SNAG photos by Mike Holmes (see below.) Taken at the Bellevue Arts Museum, this baby is hungrily eyeing one of the wearable pieces from Exhibition in Motion.

happy birthday usa!

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