American Tapestry Biennial Six

Author : Poxson Fawkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615293479
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Weaving a Chronicle written by Poxson Fawkes and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving a Chronicle is 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. The book will be appreciated by all who value visual ideas that interplay with design, techniques, materials and life experiences.Contents: Forward, Preface, Contents, six Chapters, Resume.98 pages, 46 color, paper bound, 8 1/2 x 11%u201D.About the Author: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.---