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| Title | Offering |
| Series Title | Connecting |
| Artwork Description | This bright, colorful painting depicts a woman with long, black hair dressed in a red and black dress standing in a mountain environment. She wraps her arms around a blue basket filled with fruit. Various symbols rendered in white and reflecting a diverse number of cultures and ideas float over the background around the woman. |
| Description on Object | Mary Josephson; Offering; oil on wood; 60 x 48 inches; 2010 |
| Artist Statement | As I expanded my theme of nourishment for artwork within the Stevenson Union a connectedness to the world came to the forefront. As world citizens we are nourished by a connection to one another through recognition of mutual basic needs and desires to grow and prosper as human beings. The first symbol that comes to my mind when thinking of Ashland is gateway. The essence of Southern Oregon University's liberal arts education philosophy is a gateway to responsible citizenship in the world community. I want this project to reflect, visually, our connectedness into the whole world. The Stevenson Union is a place where people come together for a variety of reasons. It is a center for student life and activities and offers nourishment, food for the mind and spirit. As I thought about what replenishes our bodies and spirits, coupled with keywords for this project and the mission statement of the university, images of exotic places, the sources of the nourishment, came to mind: chocolate from Africa, coffee from Arabia, fresh air from South America, the wonders of the traditional Asian diet, the source of our myths, and music from Europe and the bounty and comfort we call home in North America. As I looked toward each continent the inventions, arts, flora and fauna, the culture and fabric became woven together by human beings with whom we share the same hope and ideals, all of us as a world community bringing these expectations to fruition in the world. I developed each drawing to include a broad range of adventure, discovery and learning possibilities. While maintaining a strong compositional dynamic by anchoring the paintings with a central figure or figures in the foreground; each work sends the viewer on an adventure playfully depicting a myriad of nourishing and enriching elements building dreams into reality. |
| LC Subject | Painting
Ethnic art
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| AAT Subject | painting (image-making)
paintings (visual works)
oil paintings
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| Creator | Josephson, Mary
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| Artist Contact | mary@maryjosephson.com |
| Artist URL | http://www.maryjosephson.com/ |
| 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: Arts Council of Southern Oregon. You may view their website at http://www.artscouncilso.org/ |
| Award Date(s) | 2006
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| Installation Mechanism | double French cleat and screws |
| Medium | Painting
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| Artwork Measurements | 60 x 48 inches |
| Materials/Technique | oil on wood |
| Source Format | slide
color
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| Artwork Site | Ashland Oregon. Southern Oregon University. Stevenson Union
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| Location | Stevenson Union, SOU Campus |
| Site Address | 1250 Siskiyou Boulevard, Ashland Oregon
A map of this location may be viewed at http://www.sou.edu/map/flashmap.html |
| County | Jackson County, Oregon
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| Image Processing History | Master tiff image captured at 4000 pixels across the long edge using SilverFast AI 6.0 software. Digital images in tiff format are archived and saved. Adobe Photoshop CS2 used to reorient and crop image, set and neutralize shadow and highlight points, adjust levels, contrast and sharpen as needed. Second production tiff saved. Color profile converted from Adobe RGB (1998) to sRGB IEC61966-2.1, resolution revised to 125 pixels, resize longer dimension to 875 pixels; save display jpeg at quality level 6. |
| 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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