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Description:
Lobby carpet design.
Funding:
The project was funded through city of
Tempe Capital Improvement Project Percent for Art funds.
Artist biography: Ramona Sakiestewa
was born of Hopi ancestry and raised in the American Southwest. She
taught herself to weave by evolving and adapting techniques derived
from prehistoric pueblo weaving. Her work appears in the collections
of a dozen museums including the Smithsonian Institution. She has
woven the work of other contemporary artists including Frank Lloyd
Wright and Kenneth Noland. She was a founding member and a former
director of Atlatl, a national Native American arts organization
headquartered in Phoenix. In 2006, Ramona was awarded the New Mexico
Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and was inducted into
the New Mexico Women’s Hall of Fame.
Artist statement:
The carpet design
is based on a watercolor that was scaled up. The movement and
dynamism of the colors of the carpet visually flow from the lobby to
the outside infinity pool and on to the Rio Salado body of water.
The patterns in the carpet are meant to ebb and flow around the
architectural volumes of the interior spaces. Much of my own artwork
vocabulary is based in color, relationships of color and the
layering of color, in both works on paper and tapestry. I have also
designed large-scale works (in other media, i.e., metal, glass and
stone) for architects. All of these elements came together in this
Tempe Public Art Project.
The Tempe public art program is managed by city
of Tempe Cultural Services staff
with input from the Tempe Municipal Arts Commission, a 15-member,
mayor-appointed advisory board.
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