Wild Run!

Title: Wild Run!
LC Subject: Steel sculpture Sculpture Outdoor sculpture Stainless steel Fishes stainless steel metalwork (visual works) outdoor sculpture sculpture (visual work)
Creator: Zapponi, Michael
Description: A black and white photograph featuring a circular curved metal bar with ends that extend from either side. The sculpture rests on a curved platform that is bolted to a concrete footing. The circular sculpture terminates with balls on each end. Hanging upside down from the round bar is a large salmon fish. Behind the sculpture is an unidentified man, who may be Michael Zapponi. He is holding on to the side of the bar. Michael Zapponi (1947- ) was born in San Francisco, California. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honors in Art from San Jose State University in 1969, majoring in ceramics. In 1976 he moved to Sun Valley, Idaho, where he created art works in fused glass and wood before turning to metal as his chosen medium. He studied with Amir Chafai, master glass painter, Judson Studio, Arroyo Seco, California, in 1979. He has created hundreds of art works for private collectors throughout the United States and Canada, as well as large, outdoor sculptures for private and public domains. His "Alchemy of the Human Spirit," a monumental cast bronze and cast stainless steel sculpture, is located in the Morgan Adams, Jr., Sculpture Garden at the Metropolitan Los Angeles YMCA. Michael's Public Art competition winners are "Wild Run!" at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon, and "Play Time" at Jefferson Park in Ogden, Utah. Michael received a grant in May, 2000, from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, to begin a series of cast bronze sculptures of dancers. (Karen Vance, Karenvance Fine Art Placement, Bellevue, Idaho, November 6, 2000.) The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Arts Council of Southern Oregon. You may view their website at http://www.artscouncilso.org/
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Location: Stevenson Union, Southern Oregon University >> Jackson County >> Oregon >> United States Jackson County >> Oregon >> United States
Street Address: 1250 Siskiyou Boulevard, Ashland Oregon A map of this location may be viewed at http://www.sou.edu/map/flashmap.html
Date: 1975/2012
Identifier: 1998_sou_stevenson-union_01_a02
Accession Number: 1998_sou_stevenson-union_01_a02
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Zapponi, Michael
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: 8 feet x 11 feet, 6 inches x 1 inch
Material: Sculpture welded metal: steel pipe and stainless steel
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: 1998 Southern Oregon University Stevenson Union Basement Addition 1998_sou_stevenson-union
Has Version: photograph; black and white; documents 8 x 10
Institution: Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
Note: exterior east end of Stevenson Student Union Building
Color Space: RGB
Biographical Information: This is a playful look at a serious subject -- my intent was to at first attract and amuse the viewer with a beautiful fish suspended in the brightly colored ring. The image is one of a roller coaster loop-the-loop. Of course, with a little thought, we also know that the salmon is an endangered creature and that the actions and inactions of various agencies and concerned groups results in a dead-end roller coaster ride for this fish. (Zapponi, 1988)