Category Nancy Holt – Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings
Nancy Holt’s Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings Ben Breshears and Bryn Lilly About the Artist: Nancy Holt is originally from Massachusetts. In school, she majored in biology rather than art, perhaps an early nod to her future… Continue Reading →
Sam Burgess Jocelyn Gibbons Harvey Seaman —————————————————————————————————- —————————————————————————————————- The Rock Rings is a stone enclosure created by Nancy Holt in 1977. After travelling west to California, Holt began creating land art. She was fascinated by the expanse of deserts… Continue Reading →
About the Sculpture: Nancy Holt created an outdoor land art piece on Western’s campus, which is called “Rock Rings” and was created from 1977-1978. The piece was originally created to be away and hidden from the buildings on campus, but… Continue Reading →
About the Piece Nancy Holt’s Rock Rings is a large stone sculpture that consists of one large stone ring about 10 feet tall, and then an internal ring both have several holes within that represent the cardinal directions North, South,… Continue Reading →
Filming by Drew Pearson Animation by Jeiel Villarivera Character design by Dillon Smith Rock Rings Animation Nancy Holt (1938-2014) was an American artist who specialized in public land art. Her landscape sculptures were made for a specific time, place, and… Continue Reading →
This stone enclosure sculpture located on the southeast corner of the Western Washington University campus is a piece by the architectural visual artist Nancy Holt. Holt was an artist who specialized in earth works and land art. However, what made… Continue Reading →
Nancy Holt created Rock Rings as an interactive piece of art that aligned with the north star, Polaris. The archways face north and south, and the holes in the piece represent east, west, northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest, corresponding with… Continue Reading →
The first time I saw the artwork, I was touring campus. I thought it looked like a circular castle with its stone arches and circular window; Though, I might have noticed it coming on to campus from the south… Continue Reading →
Stone Enclosure (model rendered solely from outside viewpoints)