A close-up view of a female figure with short dark hair working on what looks to be a sewing machine. The piece is in all neutral colors., Crease (detail); tapestry; 1997, http://www.americantapestryalliance.org/AP/ArtistBio/SocolofskyS.html, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
This textile wall piece presents a dense grouping of plants and animals on a black ground, bordered by concentric bands of yellow, blue, yellow, and maroon, from the inside out., The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website, ArtCentric, at http://www.artcentric.org/
A tapestry featuring a female figure with short dark hair working on what looks to be a sewing machine. Below her are black words against a gray background of what looks like human hands. The piece is in all neutral colors., Crease; (3.5' x 7'); tapestry; 1997, http://www.americantapestryalliance.org/AP/ArtistBio/SocolofskyS.html, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
This colorful textile piece presents different swatches of foliage arranged over an oval intersecting a circle. The background consists of vibrant, linear patterning., Oregon Foliage of the Forest Ecosystem; 7 x 8.5 feet; 1999; J Poxson Fawkes, 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: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
