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Background on collection holdings: When an artist applies for a Percent for Art award, the Oregon Arts Commission (OAC) requires that (s)he submit slides, 8 x 10 black and white prints or 35mm negatives of their artwork, along with textual documentation describing the materials used in creating the work. In addition, some artists choose to submit illustrative proposals or project mockups. Many applicants also provide an artist statement as well as an exhibition list or resume. These materials are then reviewed for artist merit and suitability to the facility. Since 1975, the OAC has kept project notebooks containing slides, prints, and other documentation of all works purchased or commissioned for state construction projects that have qualified for Percent for Art funds.
The Percent for Art Digital Collection is comprised of selected materials from these projects. The collection includes a variety of artwork images and textual documents. This page is provided for browsing subsets of the collection based on the format and type of the item, and locating building sites which house artworks of interest.
Artwork Images
The collection contains digital surrogates of the artists’ artwork from color and black and white 35mm slides, photographs and negatives. Work types range from paintings, photographs, sculpture, glass, textiles and ceramics to integrated pieces such as installations, architectural details and paving or mosaic treatments. Artwork is selected for its ability to respond to the site’s function and to complement or contrast with the architecture and/or landscape. The work also must be enduring and thought provoking, as well as fiscally responsible and appropriate for the space.
This search will provide results pages that show all artwork, organized alphabetically by artist (creator).
Other search options are available by going to the top left of the page under "Browse & Search."
Textual Documents 
Textual documents offer an inside glimpse of artists’ thoughts, intentions, techniques and motivations, real-time to the artwork creation. All documents have been scanned and undergone optical character recognition (OCR) software extraction to make text fully searchable. Items include resumes, artist statements, exhibition lists, biographies as well as "Call to Artists" solicitations and artwork floor plan indexes.
Maps of building sites
The Maps of building sites page is a work in progress. Maps will be added and updated throughout 2008.
Some of the types of public buildings covered by Oregon’s Percent for Art law include public schools, state University and Technical College systems, court facilities and office buildings. Where multiple buildings are in close proximity, a map is provided showing the location name, visual relationship between the sites, and a street address. Rural and coastal locations, or municipalities with less than four building sites, have been congregated into shared map entities.
Other items of interest
Documents below are provided in PDF format. To access Adobe Reader software, or for details about visually impaired accessibility options, see here.
- List of Artists For a directory of the 647 artists represented within this collection, with current (as of March 10, 2008) website addresses, click here. Of the URL addresses provided, some are "official" websites of the artists, while others are sites we came upon during the course of this project that provide additional information about the artist. Of the latter, some are for commercial purpose while others are private.
- Chronological History of the Institutions of the Oregon University System Provided by the Oregon University System: an inventory of name changes for Oregon university institutions. Coverage is from 1856 — 2004. We found this information useful when seeking to identify project locations that were listed under their previous incarnation.
Comments and questions to Digital Collections Administrator
Metadata Services and Digital Projects, University of Oregon Libraries