Forward Pass
- Title
- Forward Pass
- LC Subject
- Sculpture Stainless steel Football Football players Metal sculpture Art metal-work stainless steel steelwork (visual works) sculpture (visual work) outdoor sculpture
- Creator
- Disbro, William, 1940-
- Description
- Linear steel football players that are captured in football play stance. William Disbro Studio; 75 Campbell Avenue, Jamestown, NY 14701; Forward Pass; 8 feet high; 1991; Stainless Steel; Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon William S. Disbro has been a professor of art at Jamestown Community College, and has received a commission to create a sculpture for the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Ore. The 8-foot high piece, titles 'Forward Pass' and fabricated in 1/4-inch stainless steel, will be located between the university's new Len Casanova Athletic Center and football stadium. Funds for the sculpture were provided by the Oregon Arts Commission's Arts in Public Places program. A member of the JCC faculty since 1970, Disbro earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Kent State University. He was awarded a state University of New York Research Foundation Grant in 1976. A 1987 recipient of the JCC Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Disbro is a member of the College Art Association and the National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts. (Unknown author 1991 materials from Oregon Arts Commission Binder) The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Lane Arts. You may view their website at http://www.lanearts.org/
- View
- back view
- Location
- University of Oregon Athletic Department >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States Lane County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 2727 Leo Harris Parkway, Eugene Oregon
- Award Date
- 1991
- Identifier
- 1991_uo_len-casanova_athlet-cntr_02_a02
- Accession Number
- 1991_uo_len-casanova_athlet-cntr_02_a02
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Disbro, William;
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 8 x 6 x 6 feet
- Material
- Sculpture; Metalwork; stainless steel
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1991 University of Oregon Len Casanova Athletic Center 1991_uo_len-casanova_athlet-cntr
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Note
- For background information on this project, please see: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/architecture/oregon/casanova.html. <br><br>An interactive campus map of the University of Oregon may be viewed at: http://map.uoregon.edu/
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- Forward Pass is the result of an image frozen in time. A very particular event--athletes straining their bodies to perform at peak levels--is readily seen from several views of this piece. But other views of the same piece emphasize relationships of forms from one figure to another, through positive and negative space and even light and shadow. There is more here than first appearance. (Disbro, 1991)
