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 Celebrate the Arts - Georges DeMeester Performance Center - Tucson, AZPosted by:  AZTech
N 32° 12.705 W 110° 55.467
12S E 507119 N 3563909
Large rose-colored relief located in Reid Park in central Tucson.
Waymark Code: WM8WAW
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 05/20/2010
Views: 12
Celebrate the Arts is a concrete relief sculpture mounted on the southwestern facade of the DeMeester Performance Center, which was named after Belgian-born Georges DeMeester, the Conductor and Music Director of the Tucson Pops Orchestra from 1955 - 1973. The band shell was built in 1974 and was christened the DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center in 1987.
Carole Hanson and Guillermo Esparza completed Celebrate the Arts in 1982 under commission by the Tucson-Pima Arts Council's public art program and it was dedicated on September 7, 1986. The rose-colored relief is approximately 16' tall and 8' wide and contains two rows of three figures. The top row depicts a woman dancing, a woman dancing and holding a comedy mask and a man dancing and holding a tragedy mask, while the bottom row depicts a man playing a guitar, a woman singing or speaking and a man playing a woodwind instrument.
The work was surveyed in November of 1994 as part of the "Save Outdoor Sculpture" Tucson, Arizona survey and assigned Inventory of American Sculpture control number AZ000242 (SIRIS link)
TITLE: Celebrate the Arts
ARTIST(S): Carole Hanson and Guillermo Esparza
DATE: 1982
MEDIUM: Concrete
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS AZ000242
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center, located in Gene C. Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona.
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
The inventory description was accurate as to the artwork itself and its current state.
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