A Spirit of Place, 1988-1989

Peggy Hitchcock
American (born 1951)

Location: Roosevelt Elementary School, Tacoma

About the Artwork

A Spirit of Place is an installation created by artist Peggy Hitchcock for Roosevelt Elementary School in Tacoma, Western Washington. The imagery celebrates computers and imagination. Decorative patterns, faces, and school supplies are featured in the screen prints of photocopied images and painted elements. Hitchcock organized the artwork into four geometric clusters of multiple panels that she terms "constellations." We do not currently have a digitized image of this artwork.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Tacoma Public Schools.

About the Artist

Northwest artist Peggy Hitchcock creates paintings and wall sculptures that explore pattern and form. In most of her artworks, she uses silkscreened and photocopied images based on books, magazines, and other media. She has a library of hundreds of screens that reference history, decorative patterns, the natural world, and much more. Hitchcock explains that part of the beauty of art is that it is "language for our eyes." She grew up in Ohio and has lived and worked in Seattle since the early 1980s.