April

Tracy Ragland - It’s 10:00, Do You Know Where Your Slide Rule Is?
Wayne Wallace - Math of the Simpsons
Don Gallagher - Mathematics and the James Webb telescope: A Snapshot of Math History and Its Applications.
Jinx Brandt - Topology Is Not Land Forms

Tracy Ragland joined ICL in Fall of 2017
Wayne Wallace joined in January 2015
Don Gallagher in September 2004
Jinx Brandt came in January 2010

Susan Coromel, director of BLITHE SPIRIT, will talk about the play and the process. The production opens April 13 and runs through April 29, 2023. Senior tickets are available at a discounted rate!
Susan hopes to bring in some of the student performers and share a scene from the timely Noel Coward play. The students cover the full range of ages at Willamette, from First-years to Seniors.

Stephen Alexander will talk about purchasing tickets for BLITHE SPIRIT. This is also a time that the Theatre should be able to preview their 2023-24 Season! ICL can be one of the first groups to discover the plays, concerts and musicals we are planning to produce the next school year.

Susan and Stephen also have scenic renderings that can be shared through the projection screen, to give ICL members a sneak peak at the set & costumes!

As a professional actor Susan Coromel has appeared in more than 65 roles in New York and regional theater, summer stock and film. She is a founding member, actor, director and current Artistic Director of Theatre 33, a new play development company in residence at Willamette University. Previously she was Associate Artistic Director at Salem Repertory Theatre. Ms. Coromel has worked with leading theatre directors and was a member of the acting company at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival for seven seasons.

Before her tenure at Willamette University, she taught and directed in both BFA and BA nationally recognized programs. She is a certified master teacher in the Meisner Technique, and also teaches Michael Chekhov technique, Edith Skinner and Linklater voice techniques. Susan Coromel is a member of Actors Equity Association, the Screen Actor’s Guild and the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists. Susan received her MFA in acting at the professional Actor’s Training Program at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and studied at several studios in New York City including the Acting Studio and the Michael Howard Studio.

Stephen received his BA in Theatre from the College of Wooster in Ohio, and a Master of Fine Arts in Directing from Illinois State University. After college, Stephen spent decades working in professional theatre, in both the creative and administrative arenas. As an artist, Stephen's work including directing, music directing, piano performance, conducting, and music composition, in several US and London, UK. larger companies His work garnered four Drammy awards (Portland, Oregon's "Tonys"), as well as several other region awards and fellowships. Stephen led a simultaneous career in arts management throughout his freelance years.

With over 150 productions under his belt, Stephen is grateful to bring his long, diverse journey to the singular focus of supporting the students, faculty, and productions at Willamette University.

Hear about this brilliant Victorian lady whose visionary concepts are still guiding practices for today and tomorrow. Learn how a heroine in history worked to serve others and to see that the work would be continued. Appreciate the legacy left by a woman who dared to rebel. Enjoy hearing her story and asking questions of Miss Nightingale. Close by asking Jane about this fascinating lady.

Learn how the concepts first used in Victorian days remain current for students, health care providers, health maintenance organizations, mathematicians, architects, feminists, educators, military and religious groups. Hear why Miss Nightingale fought for a career for herself and for other women. Listen to the background, struggles and triumphs.

Graduate, Oregon Health Sciences University, B.S., R.N., N.C.S.N. Well-traveled adventuress who lived in seven countries and nursed in public health clinics, embassies, hospitals, schools and camps. Visitor to another twenty countries. Community Liaison Officer and a travel consultant in London. Life member of The Florence Nightingale Museum, London.

The scope of this research focuses on imperial and provincial coinage from the Antonine Dynasty (136-198 CE). Roman provinces are distinctive in their struggle to maintain their local identity while addressing the invasion of oppressive Roman culture. The coinage collection at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art (HFMA) expresses the hostile attitudes of specific provinces towards the Roman occupation during the Antonine dynasty.

There are two types of coinage present which display this attitude. In the first type the obverse displays iconography consistent with Roman imperial messaging while the reverse displays local iconography, simultaneously adhering to local ideals while appeasing the Romans. In the second, more daring type both the obverse and reverse depict local iconographies, effectively rejecting Roman iconography and by extension Roman rule. The most common and powerful provincial iconography depicts local gods.

The inclusion of these religious figures allows locals to remember their native religious practices, and thus their entire belief systems, despite the pressure to adopt Roman religion. Furthermore, provincial Koinon (i.e. bands of mints) illustrate both competition between regions and the unification against Roman rule which eventually led to their disbandment. Provincial iconography is starkly contrasted with the tightly controlled imperial iconography centered on myth, personification, military prowess, and dynastic transitions.

This research originated from the need of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art to conduct further research on their Antonine Coinage, in light of new literature. The goal of this research is to conduct additional research on the history of the coins, locate additional comparanda, and communicate findings to the broader public in a way that is easily accessible.

Pronoun: She/Her/Hers Graduation: 2023
Major(s): Major: Classical Studies; Minor: Psychology
Sponsor: Anne Nicgorski

Bringing Art Home means how we’ve incorporated what we’ve seen and experienced artistically throughout our travels into our home. By this we mean not just his pastels paintings, but his art applied directly on our kitchen walls and covering many of our interior doors.
James will also be doing a pastel and a lucky ICLmember will win it.

Known locally as “that artist/dentist,” James is a self-taught artist who takes his manual dexterity and aesthetic sense from the dental chair to the pastel canvas. James has a rich history with Salem Art Association, including creating the 2006 Salem Art Fair & Festival poster. James has twice won “Best of Show” for NW Pastel Society’s International Exhibition.

A psychiatrist, a commercial pilot, an accountant, a hair & makeup artist and others met in a remote home on a loch in the Scottish Highlands. What do they share in common? Nerves when playing the piano! Dr. Diane Baxter will describe cases of performance anxiety from her work in the Scottish Highlands and in France. She will also perform some solo piano works.

Dr. Diane Baxter, pianist, educator and consultant, is the editor of The Oregon Musician. She recently retired as Professor of Music at Western Oregon University where she received the Faculty Honors Award for Outstanding Creativity and the Pastega Award for Excellence in Teaching. Diane taught studio piano and courses in Ethnomusicology, Performance Anxiety, and Research Methods.

Dr. Baxter has adjudicated the Woodley Festival in Berkshire, England on several occasions. She adjudicates for all ages, and all levels. Diane consults and performs far and wide, often giving workshops on doing our best under pressure. “The Science of Artistry: The Fourth String” was published in Clavier Companion in Nov/Dec 2013. Diane’s article, “Ethnomusicology and Alchemy” was published in the April/May 2020 edition of American Music Teacher.

Diane performs and teaches in France each summer, and in 2018 she began an international annual workshop on the shores of Loch Etive in the Scottish Highlands. The focus is on performance success and doing our best when it matters most. The workshop is thriving. Recently Diane started writing the program notes for Corvallis Piano International. She lives, writes, plays and thinks in Brownsville, Oregon.

Six Lunaria Gallery Artists Talk About Their Art Practice, and the Workings of an Artists' Cooperative Gallery.

Diane Trevett is a Salem artist who uses painting and drawing media to explore botanical, nature and landform subjects. She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and earned a BFA degree in studio art at Southern Oregon University. She is a member of the artist cooperative Lunaria Gallery in Silverton, and exhibits at several art galleries in the Salem area. Diane is a founding member of the Salem Artists in Action organization, now in its 21st year, and serves on the board.

Deborah Unger was born and raised in Mt. Angel, Oregon. She attended Advertising Art School in Portland and PNCA, majoring in printmaking. She graduated with a BFA in 1988, after which she moved to Germany where she lived for about 20 years. There she began experimenting with different media. Eventually she found a piece of carving wood in an art supply store and began working in her current style. In 2007 she returned to Oregon. She has been a member of Lunaria Gallery since 2010 and has also shown at various area galleries and exhibitions.

Anne Shams (Anne Barber-Shams), graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a Bachelor of Arts, Painting Emphasis as an undergraduate, she studied for a year at the University of Padua in Italy. At the same time she audited life drawing classes at the Venice Academy of Art. Her art is inspired by subjects that she often paints as a narrative series.

Margaret Plumb lives in the Pacific Northwest near Eugene, OR, and specializes in fine arts. She is known for her bold, free brushwork and use of color. Although she has used many mediums, she has focused on acrylics in recent years. Margaret also paints primarily en Plein Air—in the open air; on location. A self-guided art education over the years has taken her on a journey that includes studying under dozens of nationally acclaimed artists.

Lee Jacobson has enjoyed drawing since a very young age, but never took a real art class until college when he enrolled in a ceramics class at Weber State University. That one ceramics class changed everything for him. Jacobson changed his major and as an Art Major he excelled in both ceramic and sculptural disciplines. He pursued a graduate degree in the visual arts at the University of Arizona, in Tucson. After graduation he moved to Salem, Oregon, to accept a full-time teaching position at Chemeketa Community College. Professionally, Jacobson has exhibited his artworks in many national and regional juried and invitational exhibitions, receiving numerous awards for his creations. His works are in significant private collections and numerous museums and institutional collection.

Carolyn Johnson-Bell has spent all of her life in creative pursuits such as drawing, painting, embroidery and gardening. She started her own mural and decorative painting business in 1991 and worked hard at it for over two decades. In 2018 she decided to fulfill her goal of creating an artist’s group of her own to show where and how food is grown. As lead artist and originator of the Salem based “How We Grow Our Food” artists group project, she has turned her focus back to the earth and to the garden that she loves. For the past six years, Carolyn has continued to work in her two favorite mediums, colored pencil and acrylic.

The luncheon will begin after the ICl morning session.  There will be a Bountiful Buffet.
Incidental music will be provided by ICL’s own Just Us Quartet.
The Annual Membership Meeting will be held almost immediately following the luncheon in the same location.