Thank you to all who joined us at our Holiday Open House! We are so fortunate to live and work in the community we do, and appreciate all those who came by to celebrate. It was a fantastic night with so many friends both old and new, wonderful food from L’Hostaria and beverages by Grape & Grain.
Here are a few photos to recap the night…
Please join us in celebrating another fantastic year at our Holiday Open House today, December 20th, from 4:00pm to 8:00pm. Each year we gather to celebrate our amazing clients, colleagues, friends, family and team – and its always a wonderful time. We hope you can stop by!
Thank you to L’Hostaria and Grape and Grain for the delicious food & drink.
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There is currently an exhibit in New York City’s Museum of Arts and Design that explores the postwar era here in the United States. The American culture underwent some serious changes during this period and a new era emerged, Midcentury Modern. The Museum of Arts and Design’s Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design takes a look at “the rich interplay of art and design in all craft media (clay, fiber, wood, metal, glass, and alternative materials) that exploded across the United States during the postwar era.”
Covering a span of 25 years, the exhibit begins with the “craftsman-designers of the 1940s and 1950s, and concludes in 1969 with innovative works that upended traditional concepts of craft, and included humor, psychological content, and social commentary in provocative and unique works of art.”
Photo via Museum of Arts and Design.
Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design features the work textile designer Dorothy Liebes, furniture maker George Nakashima, silversmith Jack Prip, sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi, among others. It also examines the innovative designs of Edith Heath and Ray and Charles Eames.
Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design will be on view at the Museum of Arts and Design through January 15th and then will travel to Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York from now until January 15, 2012.
Photo via National Geographic
According to National Geographic “For 98 years, the 125-foot high Condit Dam in southeastern Washington State held back the White Salmon River, creating a serene lake, but choking off the waterway to salmon. Wednesday, in an historic effort, the dam was dramatically breached, and ecologists hope the increased flow of water will restore the waterway to fish and other aquatic organisms, as well as the birds and mammals that rely on them.”
This marks a joyful turn of events for those living in the community that have long relied on the salmon for their livelihood. National Geographic stated that according to The Indian Paper “fourteen years had passed since PacifiCorp, the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation and the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) co-sponsored the studies that showed dam removal could be cost-effective.” The demolition of the dam was also cheered by environmental organizations.
Click here to watch the demolition on National Geographic’s website.
