Detail View: University Art Galleries (UMassD): Foldings I and Foldings II
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exhibition_title:
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Quilt Art Invitational
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exhibition_dates:
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October 1984
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exhibition_year:
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1984
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exhibition_location:
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SMU Art Gallery
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exhibition_note:
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Photographs documenting the Quilt Art exhibition.
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exhibition_genre:
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fiber art
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exhibition URL:
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http://www.lib.umassd.edu/archives/
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resourceID:
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14002_011_0053
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resource_type:
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slides
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copyright notice:
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COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION: Under the direction of the Visual Resource Center digital collections are made available to the UMass Dartmouth campus community for the sole purpose of classroom instruction and study in accordance U.S. Copyright Laws . All other uses are prohibited and are subject to copyright infringements.
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credit line:
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Claire T. Carney Library - Archives and Special Collections
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artist name:
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Spaeth , Peggy
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artist_nationality:
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American
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artist_vital dates:
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mid 20th century - early 21st century
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artist_biographical note:
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Peggy Spaeth, Executive Director Heights Arts 2013 Martha Joseph Prize Peggy Spaeth "Just growing up in Cleveland, you absorb arts and culture," observes Peggy Spaeth, founding executive director of Heights Arts. The arts have always been integral to her life, starting with school field trips from Shaker Heights down the hill to the Cleveland Museum of Art and Cleveland Orchestra concerts. Later she earned an arts education degree jointly from the Cleveland Institute of Art and Case Western Reserve University. Instead of teaching she worked part time as a picture framer to spend time on her own art. As a visual artist Peggy explored color and pattern in paintings and hand-dyed quilts during the 1970s. Despite showing her work in The Cleveland Museum of Art May Show several times, national juried and invitational shows, and having her quilts featured in books, she found the life of a visual artist inhibited by sparse support of local artists by local galleries. By then a resident of Cleveland Heights with a young family, her focus shifted to art education when she discovered, as a kindergarten parent, that her local elementary school did not have an art teacher. She attended the first PTA meeting of the year to inquire why that was so. Thanks to the collaboration of the PTA, teachers, and administrators there was a certified art teacher hired the following year. The next year all eight Cleveland Heights elementary schools employed certified art teachers. "I became very interested in how the arts can impact education and community life," she says. Peggy saw opportunities to incorporate art into daily life everywhere. She initiated an art project for the playground being built at Canterbury Elementary School, and learned how to fund public art projects. She then convened a broad group of stakeholders to help the Coventry Elementary School neighborhood incorporate public art in the Peace Park on the corner of Coventry and Euclid Heights Blvd, resulting in the Coventry Peace Arch by Barry Gunderson.
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artist_reference:
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http://clevelandartsprize.org/awardees/peggy_spaeth.html
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work_title:
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Foldings I and Foldings II
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work_medium:
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fiber
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work_technique:
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fiber art - quilted
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work_date:
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1984
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date_of_ record:
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2015
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name_cataloger:
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ac
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