COLLECTION NAME:
University Art Galleries (UMassD)
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exhibition_title:
Quilt Art Invitational
exhibition_title
Quilt Art Invitational
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false
exhibition_dates:
October 1984
exhibition_dates
October 1984
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exhibition_year:
1984
exhibition_year
1984
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exhibition_location:
SMU Art Gallery
exhibition_location
SMU Art Gallery
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exhibition_note:
Photographs documenting the Quilt Art exhibition.
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Photographs documenting the Quilt Art exhibition.
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false
exhibition_genre:
fiber art
exhibition_genre
fiber art
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false
exhibition URL:
exhibition_url
http://www.lib.umassd.edu/archives/
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false
resourceID:
14002_011_0053
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14002_011_0053
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false
resource_type:
slides
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slides
resource_type
false
copyright notice:
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.
copyright_notice
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.
copyright notice
false
credit line:
Claire T. Carney Library - Archives and Special Collections
credit_line
Claire T. Carney Library - Archives and Special Collections
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artist name:
Spaeth , Peggy
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Spaeth , Peggy
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false
artist_nationality:
American
artist_nationality
American
artist_nationality
false
artist_vital dates:
mid 20th century - early 21st century
artist_vital_dates
mid 20th century - early 21st century
artist_vital dates
false
artist_biographical note:
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.
artist_biographical_note
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.
artist_biographical note
false
artist_reference:
artist_reference
http://clevelandartsprize.org/awardees/peggy_spaeth.html
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false
work_title:
Foldings I and Foldings II
work_title
Foldings I and Foldings II
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false
work_medium:
fiber
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fiber
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false
work_technique:
fiber art - quilted
work_technique
fiber art - quilted
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false
work_date:
1984
work_date
1984
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false
date_of_ record:
2015
date_of__record
2015
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false
name_cataloger:
ac
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ac
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false