Jordan Schnitzer donated this 17-ft. steel sculpture, created in 1984, to UO in 2002 to commemorate the success of The Oregon Campaign, a fundraising effort which raised $255 million from 1992-98. Mr. Schnitzer and his parents, Harold and Arlene, donated the work. It alludes to the garden of a 16th century Indian ruler. The sculpture was dedicated on June 12, 2002.
An outdoor sculpture composed by the placement of various rocks. Most of the rocks are linear and rectangular in structure. Some rocks are positioned on the ground horizontally, while others are standing straight up from the ground., Bob Murase; 1987; columar basalt; dot materials lab, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
A combination of metal cylinder shapes and disc shapes arranged in a pattern across wire that hangs from the ceiling., Peter Teneau; Delta III; Revenue, Peter V. Teneau was born in 1929 in New Rochelle, New York, US., The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
This metal relief sculpture presents layered trapezoidal forms that unite with rectangular forms to communicate a subtle variation on an overall square form., Nepali Temple Series; ohsu; Bonnie Bronson, Bonnie Bronson was born in Portland, Oregon in 1940. She attended the University of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest College of Art. She received an Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship in 1978. She was one of the first artists to develop an industrial enamel, 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/
This piece depicts a partial body of a spawning salmon with a Kwakiutt Indian representation of salmon on its sides (OAC documentation; 1989)., Wayne Chabre; Natural History, U of O, waynechabre@charter.net; 704 Catherine Street, Walla Walla, Washington, (509) 301-3596, http://www.waynechabre.com/index.html, 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/
Strategically cut, white PVC pipe forms an abstract pattern as it is installed side-by-side on the face of the west exterior wall., John Rogers; 1983; DVAOB detail; west entrance, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
Strategically cut, white PVC pipe forms an abstract pattern as it is installed side-by-side on the face of the west exterior wall., Rogers; 1983; VAB, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
A detailed photograph showing the head portion of the male statue and the left side of his torso set against a cloudy blue sky. The statue, with his face turning towards the ground, seems to be dry in gray cement., Promises; '88; P. Buckner; Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, 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/
On the ground floor the bases of the columns are clad with steel plates. Inside there are lights and holes in the steel to suggest fragments of an atomic pattern and represent solid-state physics, the foundation of the physical sciences. The silvery steel light standards on the second floor are shaped to look like two molecules merging and are there to represent the molecular science fields. The staircase leading to the upper floors is faced with the frieze painted with a design like the spiraling "double-helix" of DNA- the molecular chain on which living matter is based. On the top floor, suspended from the ceiling, is a stainless steel sculpture of 1,800 laser-cut stars, representing the field of astrophysics (Bloomer, 1989)., K. Bloomer; Physics Wall; 6-89, kent.bloomer@yale.edu, http://www.bloomerstudio.com/, 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/
This piece depicts the head of a raven with a Kwakiutt Indian mask of a raven on top (OAC documentation, 1989)., Wayne Chabre; Raven Gargoyle; Raven Gate; copper/patina; 48 x 48 x 30 inches; Museum of Natural History; 1987, waynechabre@charter.net; 704 Catherine Street, Walla Walla, Washington, (509) 301-3596, http://www.waynechabre.com/index.html, 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/