Awakening

Title: Awakening
Description: Gordon’s mural shows the artist in various stages of her creative process, reflecting the influence of her TSU art professors. In the composition, she portrays herself sculpting a terracotta bison, throwing pottery at a wheel, weaving at a loom, and drawing at an easel. A wispy fabric runs through the mural, a motif in some of her other works.
Creator: Erma Gordon
Date Created: 1968
Medium: tempera
Spatial Coverage: 2nd floor, Hannah Hall, Texas Southern University
Extent: 114.5 x 72.5, 39 x 72.5 in.

Item sets: TSU Hannah Hall Murals; Hannah Hall 2nd Floor Murals; TSU Permanent Collection; TSU Permanent Collection 2D Items