The
Hallie Ford Museum of Art (HFMA) is the museum of
Willamette University in
Salem. The museum is named after philanthropist
Hallie Ford (1905-2007) who donated millions of dollars to the school. When it opened the museum was the second largest
art museum in the state after the
Portland Art Museum, and it is currently the state's third largest. Opened in 1998, the facility is across the street from the
Oregon State Capital in downtown Salem, on the western edge of the Willamette University campus. Hallie Ford exhibits collections of both art and historical artifacts with a focus on Oregon related pieces of art and artists in the 27,000 square feet (2,500
m
2) facility. The
museum also hosts various traveling exhibits in two of its six
galleries. The museum is in a three story,
International Style building constructed in 1965 for the local phone company. Past exhibits have included traveling exhibits on Egyptian art in 2002,
Maori artwork, a collection of ancient glass work in 2007, and an exhibit on ancient Roman and Greek artifacts. Artists featured include painter Michael Spafford, Michael Brophy, Amanda Snyderis, Rick Bartow,
Jacob Lawrence, David Giese,
Fay Jones,
David Gilhooly, Mary Lou Zeek, and Robert Hess among others. Hallie Ford Museum of Art is a member of both the American Association for State and Local History, and the
American Association of Museums
Louise Bryant (December 5, 1885
– January 6, 1936) was an American
journalist known for her sympathetic coverage of Russia and the
Bolsheviks during the
Russian Revolution. Bryant, a feminist married in 1916 to the more famous writer
John Reed, wrote about leading Russian women such as
Katherine Breshkovsky and
Maria Spiridonova as well as men including
Alexander Kerensky,
Vladimir Lenin, and
Leon Trotsky. Her news stories, distributed by
Hearst during and after her trips to
Petrograd and Moscow, appeared in newspapers across the U.S. and Canada in the years immediately following World War I. A collection of articles from her first trip was published in book form as
Six Red Months in Russia in 1918. In 1919, she defended the revolution in testimony before the
Overman Committee, a
Senate subcommittee established to investigate Bolshevik influence in the United States. Later that year, she undertook a nationwide speaking tour to encourage public support of the Bolsheviks and to discourage armed U.S. intervention in Russia. Bryant grew up in rural
Nevada and attended the
University of Nevada in Reno and the
University of Oregon, graduating with a degree in history in 1909. Pursuing a career in journalism, she became society editor of the
Portland, Oregon,
Spectator and
freelanced for
The Oregonian. During her years in Portland (1909
–15), she became active in the
women's suffrage movement. Leaving her first husband in 1915 to follow Reed to
Greenwich Village, she formed friendships with leading feminists of the day, some of whom she met through Reed's associates at publications such as
The Masses, or at meetings of a women's group,
Heterodoxy, or through work with the
Provincetown Players. During a
National Woman's Party suffrage rally in
Washington, D.C., in 1919, she was arrested and spent three days in jail. Like Reed, she had lovers outside of marriage; during her Greenwich Village years (1916
–20) these included playwright
Eugene O'Neill and painter
Andrew Dasburg. Suffering from a rare and painful disorder, Bryant wrote and published little in her last 10 years and drank heavily. Bullitt, winning sole custody of Anne, divorced her in 1930. Bryant died in Paris in 1936 and was buried in
Versailles. A group from Portland visited her neglected grave in 1998 and worked to restore it.
- August 5, 1942, businessman Simon Benson of the "Benson Bubblers" fame dies.
- August 7, 1958, Alberto Salazar, marathon runner and member of the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame, is born in Cuba.
- August 9, 1977, Portland State University alumnus and one-time Portland Trail Blazers forward Ime Udoka is born in Portland.
- August 14, 1848, the Oregon Territory is created when President Polk signs a bill passed by Congress.
- August 15, 2003, judge Rives Kistler is appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court and becomes the first openly gay justice on the court.
- August 17, 1857, the Oregon Constitutional Convention begins meeting in Salem.
- August 27, 1966, the Astoria–Megler Bridge opens across the Columbia River, linking Astoria to Washington state.
- August 28, 1970, Vortex I, a state-sponsored rock music festival, begins in Clackamas County.
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