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| Title | Seminole Daylight |
| Artwork Description | This tapestry piece combines interlocking, triangular patterning and bright colors. |
| Notes | The Knight Library is the largest library facility in Oregon, holding collections with a replacement value of over $100 million. Approximately 1.85 million of the University Library's 2.4 million volumes are housed in Knight, along with microforms, government documents, sound recordings, films, and videotapes. Special Collections contains over 40,000 rare books and 13,000 linear feet of manuscript holdings; much of this primary source material is unique and irreplaceable at any price. The building is named in honor of the family of Philip Knight, President and CEO of Nike, Inc.
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| LC Subject | Textile artists
Textile crafts
Textile fabrics
Textile design
Textured woven fabrics
Tapestry
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| AAT Subject | fiber
fiber art
textiles
tapestry
tapestry (process)
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| Creator | Fawkes, Judith Poxson
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| About the Artist | 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) |
| Artist Contact | jpfawkes@earthlink.net |
| Artist URL | http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/fawkes_jp.html
For additional information about the artist, see http://www.lindahodgesgallery.com/artists/poxson_fawkes.html |
| Regional Arts Council | 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/ |
| Award Date(s) | 1995
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| Medium | Textile art
Fiber art
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| Artwork Measurements | 41 inches x 7 feet 4 inches |
| Materials/Technique | linen tapestry; inlay technique |
| Source Format | digital photograph
color
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| Artwork Site | Eugene Oregon. University of Oregon. Knight Library
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| Location | south end, second floor, periodical stacks |
| Site Address | 1501 Kincaid Street, Eugene Oregon |
| County | Lane County, Oregon
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| Image Processing History | Digital file enters Photoshop CS2 in RAW format. Photoshop used to convert RAW file to 8 bit RGB. Archived tiff is saved. Photoshop used to reorient and crop image, set and neutralize shadow and highlight point, adjust contrast. Second production tiff saved. Color profile converted from Adobe RGB (1998) to sRGB, resolution set to 125 dpi and longer length resized to 875 pixels. Display jpeg saved after resizing. |
| Rights | Copyright is retained by the artist or author. All rights reserved. |
| Contributors | University of Oregon Libraries; Oregon Arts Commission |
| Publisher | University of Oregon Libraries
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| Digital Collection Title | University of Oregon. Libraries. Oregon Public Percent for Art Digital Collection.
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