Draw Bridge Conservation Record

Title: Draw Bridge Conservation Record
LC Subject: Art--Documentation
Creator: Peters, George Walter, Melanie Air Works Studio, Inc.
Description: Fabrication, installation and conservation statement for the work Draw Bridge Ariworks Studio started from a simple joy of making kites in 1976 and has expanded to working with the themes of flight and air in our sculptural works. The aerial sculptures include the aerial acrobatics of colorful and kinetic mobiles, wind blown sail forms, delicate suspended structures, banners, arching bridge forms, wind activated works and installation sculptures. George Peters has a thirty year history of working with aerial forms from gallery works to installation sculpture, kites, mobiles, wind sculpture and banner works. He has completed over sixty national and international commissioned works for private, corporate and public institutions. He attended Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles and has worked in various art fields as a visual artist, sculptor, craftsman, fiber artist, environmental and installation sculpture, graphic arts, illustration, photography, film animation, digital imaging, architectural modeling, theater set and costume design. Since creating Airworks Studio, Inc. with artist, Melanie Walker in 1999, their joint works have won national and international public art commission awards. Melanie Walker has an exhibition history that spans more than thirty years. She received a BA from San Francisco State University and an MFA from Florida State University. She is a mixed media artist and is invested in ideas. Her approach to materials includes photographic media, digital art, sculpture, installation, fiber art, printmaking, costume design and public art. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally and has work in a number of permanent collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. She has also taught as a professor of art teaching photography and alternative photographic processes at the University of Colorado, Boulder. airworks@concentric.net The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Arts Central Arts.
Location: Corvallis >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States Kearney Hall, Oregon State University >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
Award Date: 2006-2008
Identifier: Walke_Peter_Conser
Accession Number: Walke_Peter_Conser
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Peters, George; Walter, Melanie; Air Works Studio, Inc.
Type: Text
Format: application/pdf
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: Oregon State University Apperson (Kearney) Hall Renovation Project
Institution: Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
Note: Central atrium