The Turner Gallery moved into its new space in early 2009. It is now housed in the Meriam Library on the University campus. Janet donated to student art sales and to KXIE (Channel 9) in Redding, California. She really believed in and supported public television. I purchased a print titled “Back Bone of Sheep” at a student auction for $17.00. Can’t do that now. She was my inspiration for later donating my work to non-profits that were having fund-raisers. At one student sale, I could have bought her print “Beast Baying at the Moon” for $10.00. I did not buy it…because $10.00 was $10.00 to a starving student; and besides it was an abstract. No do-over’s for me…dog-gone-it!

Spring semester 1971 bought a teaching credential for me and a studio INdown town Chico. It was above Lee Pharmacy on Broadway. The rent was $15.00 a month and all utilities were paid. I shared that studio with a graphic designer – Charlie Osborn. Charlie would go on to become a well-respected graphic designer and a creative photographer/digital artist (www.charlieosborn.com). He and I both were doing photo silk screening which required hot water. The problem with our studio was that there was no running water, so we had to bring water into the studio in pails. We had a tray to wash the screens with a submersible pump and a submersible water heater. Oh the struggles we endure for our art.

Janet and I would go out to lunch later on when I was working at my parent’s appliance repair business. She would always say that she wanted me to come back and finish my master’s. I was seven units short of my masters when I went to work for my parents. I would tell her someday I will. How did I know that day would never come? At the times I would see Janet, mainly at our lunches; she was usually wearing a purple turban. I knew that she had cancer. What I didn’t pick up on, was that she was how very sick she was. I can be very dense at times.
I went to visit Janet at Enloe Hospital and her first words to me were “last night I bid on a Halldorson print on channel 9, and I got it!” My response was “Janet you can have any of my prints, anytime.” It was then I realized that she was also helping channel 9 in the process. Suddenly she became sick and I had to leave the room. That was the last time I saw her. I know she knows that I loved her as a teacher , a mentor, and a friend.

Dr. Janet Elizabeth Turner passed away in 1988.
I will forever be thankful for “My Time with Janet.”