Portland State University

Title: Portland State University
LC Subject: Textile artists Textile crafts Textile fabrics Textured woven fabrics Linen Tapestry fiber fiber art textile art (visual works) tapestries tapestry (process)
Creator: Fawkes, Judith Poxson, 1941-
Description: A large, textile wall hanging that seems to evoke a sense of city street schematics. portland state university; 1989; Judith Poxson Fawkes; linen tapestry; smith center; psu Judith Poxson Fawkes, a resident of Portland, Oregon, is a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art. She taught weaving at four institutions of higher education, most recently at Lewis and Clark College, Portland. Her fifty-six commissions hang in such diverse locations as a Federal courthouse, hospitals, university and school buildings, corporations and businesses, a Royal Caribbean Cruise ship, residences in Saudi Arabia and Paris, and in a jail lobby. Sixty-three tapestries are in public collections. She is a recipient of a WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship for Visual Artists, an Individual Artists' Fellowship from the Oregon Art Commission and a Crafts Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. She has written a book entitled "Weaving a Chronicle," described as a visual and written catalog by a working tapestry weaver. Forty-six tapestries, pictured in color, are accompanied by adjacent text describing the reasons for each work's creation. Stories of the tapestries revisit commissions and exhibitions. Each tapestry represents seminal ideas in one of six series. The tapestries contribute to the chronicle of how ideas are conceived and executed-- adding to the history of American art and craft, and to the definition of contemporary tapestry. (details provided by artist, 2008) jpfawkes@earthlink.net The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
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Location: Portland State University Professional Development Center >> Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States
Street Address: 1633 S. W. Park Ave., Portland Oregon
Award Date: 1989
Identifier: 1980_psu_prof-school-bldg_14_a01
Accession Number: 1980_psu_prof-school-bldg_14_a01
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Fawkes, Judith Poxson
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Material: Fiber art; Textile art linen tapestry
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: 1980-1982 Portland State University Professional Schools Building 1980_psu_prof-school-bldg
Has Version: slide; color
Institution: Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
Note: A campus map for Portland State University may be accessed at http://www.pdx.edu/media/c/a/campus_map.pdf Smith Center, Vanport Room
Color Space: RGB