Awakening

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Original Title: Awakening
Date: 1968
Creator: Erma Gordon See all items with this value
Description: Gordon’s mural examines her own life and personal development. A wispy fabric running through the mural serves as a metaphor for her emerging self-awareness; this motif is found in some of her other works. Gordon’s mural showcases herself working on several art projects from her undergraduate period.
Primary Subject: 1900-1999 See all items with this value; Art See all items with this value; HBCU student work See all items with this value; HBCU institutional history See all items with this value
Additional Subject: Black art; Educators; Faculty; Memory; Sculpture
Current Location: 2nd Floor, South Corridor, Hannah Hall, Texas Southern University
Location: Houston; Texas; United States
Type: Murals
Additional Techniques: Mural painting
Measurements: 72 1/2 in x 39 in; 72 1/2 in x 114 1/2 in
Format: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: 92
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.TSU.0238
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Contributing Institution: Texas Southern University
Collection: Hannah Hall Murals See all items with this value

Item sets: Art; Hannah Hall Murals; Texas Southern University Collections