When the Desert Weeps, Blooms Appear
- Title
- When the Desert Weeps, Blooms Appear
- LC Subject
- Sculpture Clay Ceramic sculpture Mask makers Masks clay glass (material) embroidering embroidery (visual works) felt (textile)
- Creator
- Shaw, Victoria Peers, Karin
- Description
- This black, clay mask has wide open eyes and a long nose that melds into extended eyebrows. The cheeks have inset triangular shapes that display colored embroidery thread. Artists: Victoria Shaw-Clay Karin Peers-Embroidery; Titled: When the Desert Weeps, Blooms Appear; 15""h*10""w*2 1/2"" The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Eastern Oregon Regional Arts. You may view their website at http://www.artseast.org/
- Location
- Loso Hall, Eastern Oregon University >> Union County >> Oregon >> United States Union County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- One University Boulevard, La Grande Oregon
- Award Date
- 1989
- Identifier
- 1990_eou_loso-hall_16_a01
- Item Locator
- SHA:90-9
- Accession Number
- 1990_eou_loso-hall_16_a01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Shaw, Victoria; Peers, Karin
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 15 x 10 x 2.5 inches
- Material
- Sculpture; Ceramic art; handbuilt clay with inset of embroidery thread on felt; decorated with Venetian glass tile
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1990 Eastern Oregon University Loso Hall 1990_eou_loso-hall
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Note
- This award was originally made to enhance Loso Hall at the Eastern Oregon State College. In 1997 Eastern Oregon State College became Eastern Oregon University. For a campus map, detailing the location of Loso Hall, see http://www.eou.edu/visitor/map/
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- Choosing to work collaboratively allowed for the bringing together of two contrasting materials: the hardness of fired clay, the softness of thread. Keeping the mask primitive, with stark simplicity of expression furthers the idea of a barrenness which gives life to color, the intricacies of design and light. In totality the piece represents the deserts solitary beauty and the contrasts which is embraces. (Peers, embroidery; Shaw, clay and tile) (Unknown, 1990)
