{"id":9406,"date":"2019-02-03T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=9406"},"modified":"2019-02-03T01:00:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T09:00:38","slug":"art-on-campus-soliloquy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/art-on-campus-soliloquy\/","title":{"rendered":"Art on campus: \u201cSoliloquy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2019\/02\/CampusArt-772x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"328\" class=\" wp-image-9407 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2019\/02\/CampusArt-772x1024.jpg 772w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2019\/02\/CampusArt-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2019\/02\/CampusArt-768x1018.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Chrys Weedon<\/strong> | Entertainment Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the first stairwell of Hamersly Library hangs an intricate tapestry that many students may not give a second glance. \u201cSoliloquy\u201d by Shelley Socolofsky has been living in the library since it opened its doors. The art piece was commissioned specifically for the library as a part of the Percent for Art program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Oregon Arts Commission started the Percent for Art program in 1975, when it applied only to Marion and Polk counties. The program legislates that any building with a budget of $100,000 or more must set aside one percent or more of their budget for public artwork. In 1977, the legislation took effect in all Oregon counties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shelley Socolofsky is currently based in Portland, Oregon. According to her website, <a href=\"http:\/\/shelleysocolofsky.com\">shelleysocolofsky.com<\/a>, \u201cinformed by long histories of textile production with its orientation to pattern and decoration, her work explores the material, conceptual and poetic nuances of \u2018craft\u2019 through a hybrid practice incorporating both digital technology and analogue hand processes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSoliloquy\u201d is a tapestry in Gobelin Tapestry style, a technique born from Les Manufactures des Gobelins in Paris and Uzes, France, where Socolofsky completed an apprenticeship. According to Hamersly Library\u2019s website, Gobelins is a tapestry style that was developed during the middle ages in Europe from cloth making traditions developed over centuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cPart of why I like it so much is that it\u2019s huge, and it represents so much work,\u201d said Paula Booth, an art professor and director of the Cannon Gallery of Art in Campbell Hall, \u201cI also find that it looks totally different when you\u2019re standing at a distance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The tapestry features a woman whose head opens into a cloudscape. Flowing upward, clouds turn into tree branches and finally the top of the tapestry sits baby birds, mouths agape. The pieces represents the hunger for new knowledge, open-minded thinking and the search for new ideas. Woven behind the image of the woman are excerpts from an Anne Sexton poem; the words are very subtle and visible only at a semi-close distance. The tapestry captures the mission statement and vision of a library \u2014 the pursuit of knowledge and exposure to new ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:howlentertainment@wou.edu\">howlentertainment@wou.edu<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of Ashlynn Norton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor In the first stairwell of Hamersly Library hangs an intricate tapestry that many students may not give a second glance. \u201cSoliloquy\u201d by Shelley Socolofsky has been living in the library since it opened its doors. 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