BILLINGS (AP) -- Inmates at the state women's prison say Eleanor Roosevelt and Oprah Winfrey are among the role models whose names belong on the institution's new outdoor art.

Three archways with positive images of women are being placed at the prison as part of a state arts program.

Ceramic artist Chip Clawson of Helena created the arches and held creativity classes for inmates in a $50,000 project funded under Montana's Percent for Art law. It specifies that art in new or remodeled state buildings be funded in amounts up to 1 percent of the construction or remodeling cost.

Dedication of Clawson's arches at the Billings prison, which has undergone remodeling, is scheduled for Sept. 10.

The Great Mother Arch, 10 feet high, is in a courtyard near the prison chapel and portrays an older woman, arms outstretched, on each side of the arch's crown. Tiles bear names of women some of the inmates identified as inspirational. Along with the names of Roosevelt and Winfrey, inmates identified Mary of Nazareth and some prison volunteers and personnel.

The 4-foot-high Loving Mother Arch will be in an area where children visit their mothers. The arch depicting two women holding babies has been designed so children can play on it.

The All Women Are Role Models arch will stand in front of the prison's main entrance. The arch rises 11 feet and features images from the other two.

''The arch reminds me of something you can walk under and have a new beginning," said Nora ''Annie" Harrison, 48, who expects to complete a three-year sentence for check fraud in November and attend Montana State University-Billings.

Harrison chose to stamp Winfrey's name on a tile. She considers the television personality ''America's girlfriend," she said.

Clawson's proposal was selected two years ago, from 77 applications. A committee that included inmates evaluated the top five proposals.