Maryhill Museum of Art’s “Exquisite Gorge” project is underway, with artists doing wood carvings at different locations along the Columbia River from the confluence with the Willamette to the confluence with the Snake that will eventually be put together this summer into one long print.  Maryhill’s Lou Palermo says the project draws its inspiration from the surrealists of the 1920’s who would play a game where everyone would draw a part of human form, but couldn’t see what the others had drawn, and then it was all put together.  Palermo thought the Columbia River would be a good subject for this approach.  The carvings will be put together at Maryhill on August 24, and a steamroller will be used to create one 66-foot long print.  More information on the project is available at maryhillmuseum.org.