I used to have a card for the Koret Center at USF by our old house. It’s a great gym with an Olympic sized pool. But since I wasn’t a student of USF, the hours I was allowed to visit were very limited. Plus I had so much going on in my life, I rarely…

Hi, It’s been a strange week. I came down with the ole swine flu a week ago Saturday, Oct 17th. I experienced four days of 101-103 fever. After the fever came down, I’ve been exhausted and weak. I’m just coughing a lot now, and food makes me sick to my stomach, very, very sick to…

Sometimes it seems I can’t get enough of the outside world. I want to read and see and hear. Lectures, shows, books, websites, I envelope myself in all things visual. Other times, I am stuck inside my own head. I make lists of ideas, I doodle, I sing. I can’t imagine seeing another show, the…

I started my graphic novel class at PNCA last night. I want to do a comic about Mississippi. The trouble is, site a black dog poses a challenge. I want her to be black in the strip, tadalafil it so much part of her personality, patient but black is a tough one to add character…

Photographer Eirik Johnson will be giving an exhibiting artist lecture Thursday, buy October 22nd at the Henry Art Gallery at University of Washington in Seattle, WA 7pm to 8:30pm Exhibition: Eirik Johnson: Sawdust Mountain University of Washington Henry Art Gallery North Galleries October 24, 2009 â?? January 31, 2010 Artist Lecture Thursday, October 22, 2009,…

Holy crap, it’s beautiful outside. Portland is so very beautiful right now. Friday I found myself wandering around our neighborhood, taking photos of trees. The neighbors probably thought I was nuts, but maybe they are getting used to it. I often walk outside our own house to marvel at the beauty of our dogwood tree…

This segment of the 365 apples in 2009 project finds our protagonist making art about fall, bundling up with electric blankets, and getting back into oatmeal as a delicious and seasonally suitable breakfast option. Apple 285 I’m cutting out and dying leaves using thick watercolor paper. I plan to use them in some drawings. Apple…

Loving this post about the Brion Nuda Rosch show on Beautiful/Decay. Show is up in San Francisco until October 10th, medical 2009 at Baer Ridgway Exhibition.

Martin Kersels is a big man making big art. Most of his sculptures and photographs have to do with size relationships. Human hamster wheels, no rx giant shoes, look giant nests. His works tend to accentuate mass and gravity. Martin Kersels Lecture Series through PNCA 6:30 p.m. Thursday, sovaldi October 8, 2009 The Lab at…

Anne Wilson is in Portland this week discussing art and craft through Reed college and the M0CC. Both event are free and open to the public. From Reed College website: Chicago-based artist Anne Wilson will be lecturing twice this week in Portland. Wilson is a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago…

I Finally digitalized some of the footage from my senior show at CCA in 2008. Only took a year and a half. Alanna Risse (Spence) Rapture California College of the Arts April 2008 Bruce Galleries BFA Painting/Drawing

Some artwork of mine will be auctioned off at the very cool PYDC First Annual Glass Ball. Tickets just went on sale. I’m so excited about this event and I hope you are too. Please join us for what promises to be a very memorable evening. Here’s a note from AMP: Tickets for the Glass…

I just love this show. The pieces are made from found photos and frames, and graphics tape. Reading through his Bio, Joe speaks of forgetting and remembering, cast-aways, re purposing, revealing, resurrection, and architecture and morality. I want to call them a re-revery. A seeking out of the once cherrished, breathing new life, revealing hidden…

Dear Mississippi, We’ve been together for 6 months now and I can’t imagine life without you. You are so wonderful, such a face, you could melt the heart of any human or dog. Cats, I think you’ve got some work ahead of you to win them over. I’m so glad you picked us that fateful…