A black and white print featuring numerous totums or icons, such as a fish with legs (tadpole?), a monkey, a snake, another fish, lizards, birds, mermaids, and other creatures. The creatures are in all different shapes and sizes and are facing in different directions., Bizarre Connection; Baba Wague Diakite; Etching; 15 x 17 inches; '90; DiaB9012, Baba Wague Diakité is a West African artist; he was born in Bamako, Mali., ronnawague@juno.com, http://www.africancraft.com/artist.php?sid=42132141658580101321960056855383&id=wague&pg=portfolio, 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 woodcut print in primary tones of black, white and brown, featuring a brick wall with geckos climbing up the wall and monkeys playing on the ground in front of the wall. Behind the wall are human-like figures with brown and white lines for hair and a happy sun in the upper right corner of the piece., An-Ka-Gnogon-Demen-Demen (Across the Wall); Baba Wague Diakite; Woodcut; 16 x 24 inches; '92; DiaB92070751; (inv. 1435), Baba Wague Diakité is a West African artist; he was born in Bamako, Mali., ronnawague@juno.com, http://www.africancraft.com/artist.php?sid=42132141658580101321960056855383&id=wague&pg=portfolio, 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 black and white print featuring hideously whimsical creatures. There is a dog with a pig-snout nose howling at a moon with large eyes and missing teeth--all set against a stary sky. Around the dog is a sad flower, a flying insect, and a cat wearing some sort of checked shirt with a mouse sitting on it. Behind the dog, on the left side of the piece is some weird monster-type figure with big eyes and perhaps a flower in its hair. Your imagination is the best description of this piece., By Jim Parrot's; woodblock print; 11.25 x 17.5; 1981-85, A welder by trade with a master's degree in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute, Bulwinkle tickles us with his outrageous characters. Dogs and cats, suns and moons, birds, boats, worms, fish, people come to life in the most zany of situations. (OAC documentation, 1990), markbul@sonic.net, http://www.markbulwinkle.com/Welcome.html, 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 black and white print featuring hideously whimsical creatures. In this print, there is a boat sailing in wavy water in front of a sharply forested hill. A fish bites the front of the boat. There is some sort of shirtless male figure with glasses atop his bulbous, large nose sitting in the back of the boat holding onto what may be the boat motor. One of his hairy legs hangs over the side. In the front of the boat is a seemingly petrified dog with his mouth widely opened and tongue sticking out. Your imagination is the best description of this piece., Bob Smith; woodblock print; 11.25 x 17.5 inches; 1981-85, A welder by trade with a master's degree in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute, Bulwinkle tickles us with his outrageous characters. Dogs and cats, suns and moons, birds, boats, worms, fish, people come to life in the most zany of situations. (OAC documentation, 1990), markbul@sonic.net, http://www.markbulwinkle.com/Welcome.html, 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 sculpture by Portland artist Ronna Neuenscwander stems from her experience in the West African country of Mali. The urge to trace the camel caravans of the Sahara Desert to Timbuktu created a backdrop for unanticipated adventures. Inspired by ancient cultures as quietly pervasive as the sands, she encountered a land that gives nothing, yet produces a life of utmost grace (unknown source, OAC documentation)., R. Neuenschwander; Gnogome (Camel); 22 (h) x 21 (w) x 8 (d) inches; earthenware, adobe; 1984, For more information and background on the artist, see , http://www.froelickgallery.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=276, 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 visit their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html