A floor-to-ceiling tapestry composed in blue, pink, black, white, red, gray, and purple free-form shapes., Christina Sells; and out it came; state capital v II, 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 rectangular felt art piece composed of multiple layers. The top layer consists of 25 triangles in red and yellow, with four broken lines going diagonally across the triangles. The next layer is a rectangular red and orange piece of felt that has two curved pieces cut out to show the blue bottom layer beneath it. 30 blue triangles pointing outward with a green line going through the bottom of all the blue triangles border the yellow, red and orange felt., Khyler Pass Rain 1; Patricia Spark; E.O.C.I.; wool felt, spark@peak.org, http://www.peak.org/~spark/spark.html, 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/
A rectangular felt art piece composed of multiple layers. The top layer consists of 25 triangles in blue and yellow with four broken lines placed diagonally across the triangles. The next layer is a rectangular yellow piece of felt that has two curved pieces cut out to show the bottom purple layer beneath it. 30 purple triangles pointing outward with a pink line going through the bottom of all the purple triangles border the yellow and blue felt., Khyler Pass Rain 2; Patricia Spark;, spark@peak.org, http://www.peak.org/~spark/spark.html, 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/
A detailed photograph of a textile art piece. In this detailed version, there are mutliple yellow rectangles, repeating in different shades. To the left of the yellow section are four blue rectangles, and to the right are black rectangles., Ann Williamson Hyman; Ascension detail; justice building, 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 tapestry comprised of undulating segments of blue, white, brown, and purple that hangs on the wall., Pam Patrie; state capital vol. II; untitled weaving, http://revolution.3-cities.com/~abates/meanderings/Pam3.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, cross-hatch pattern tapestry., 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
Three circles, arranged tightly together from left to right, contain the image of an iris variously intersected by a series of lines. The irises' colors shift from left to right: the left one is a reddish-orange, the middle is a shade of mauve, and the right one is a purplish color. The intersecting lines are slightly different in each circle as well., November, 1980; Painted & dyed canvas trapunto quilt, 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 woven piece that presents a geometric pattern of squares and rectangles over a subltely integrated plaid of blue, purple, and yellow. The squares and rectangles are presented in a gradation from yellow to red, and the sqaures form a diagonal from the bottom left to the top right. The rectangles vary in size to accomodate the space between each square and the top/bottom edge of the piece. The artist has also woven her initials, place, and date into the bottom of the piece., 1979; Weaving; 39""x57"", Judith Poxson Fawkes, a resident of Portland, Oregon, is a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art. She taught weaving at four institutions of higher education, most recently at Lewis and Clark College, Portland. Her fifty-six commissions hang in such diverse locations as a Federal courthouse, hospitals, university and school buildings, corporations and businesses, a Royal Caribbean Cruise ship, residences in Saudi Arabia and Paris, and in a jail lobby. Sixty-three tapestries are in public collections. She is a recipient of a WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship for Visual Artists, an Individual Artists' Fellowship from the Oregon Art Commission and a Crafts Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. She has written a book entitled "Weaving a Chronicle," described as a visual and written catalog by a working tapestry weaver. Forty-six tapestries, pictured in color, are accompanied by adjacent text describing the reasons for each work's creation. Stories of the tapestries revisit commissions and exhibitions. Each tapestry represents seminal ideas in one of six series. The tapestries contribute to the chronicle of how ideas are conceived and executed-- adding to the history of American art and craft, and to the definition of contemporary tapestry. (details provided by artist, 2008), jpfawkes@earthlink.net, http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/fawkes_jp.html <br>For additional information about the artist, see http://www.lindahodgesgallery.com/artists/poxson_fawkes.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 tapestry piece depicts a topographical map of the state of Oregon, surrounded by miscellaneous flora above and below. Also, above the representation of the state, there is a circular mosaic form. The map is executed in green, yellow, and brown, while the rest of the composition is done in pastel blues, greens, oranges, and purples., Oregon sunrise: new dawn of retirement ; J Poxson Fawkes ; 15' H. x 8' W. 1997, Judith Poxson Fawkes, a resident of Portland, Oregon, is a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art. She taught weaving at four institutions of higher education, most recently at Lewis and Clark College, Portland. Her fifty-six commissions hang in such diverse locations as a Federal courthouse, hospitals, university and school buildings, corporations and businesses, a Royal Caribbean Cruise ship, residences in Saudi Arabia and Paris, and in a jail lobby. Sixty-three tapestries are in public collections. She is a recipient of a WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship for Visual Artists, an Individual Artists' Fellowship from the Oregon Art Commission and a Crafts Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. She has written a book entitled "Weaving a Chronicle," described as a visual and written catalog by a working tapestry weaver. Forty-six tapestries, pictured in color, are accompanied by adjacent text describing the reasons for each work's creation. Stories of the tapestries revisit commissions and exhibitions. Each tapestry represents seminal ideas in one of six series. The tapestries contribute to the chronicle of how ideas are conceived and executed-- adding to the history of American art and craft, and to the definition of contemporary tapestry. (details provided by artist, 2008), jpfawkes@earthlink.net, http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/fawkes_jp.html <br>For additional information about the artist, see http://www.lindahodgesgallery.com/artists/poxson_fawkes.html, 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/
A detail view of translucent banners that resemble leaf forms. Translucent material and red, blue, and pink material push and pull for the definition of positive and negative space., Unleased Rhythm; Hall Sky Light; Beaverton Oregon; Each: 24""H; Nylon; Louise Kodis 2000, 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/