Boilermaker basketball star-turned-artist Joe Barry Carroll explores his roots and shares his perspective on growing up in the impoverished South and traveling the world with the NBA through large-scale paintings that befit his imposing stature. Joe Barry Carroll can’t answer the phone. His fingers are covered in paint. When he calls back an hour later, […]
Quite literally transforming campus, the 40-foot bronze Transformation sculpture was installed on the south portion of campus in 2002 to serve as more than an art form. Transformation was given to the University as a gift from the class of 1952. The class raised over $860,000 for a scholarship fund and the commissioned piece that […]
Megan Stevens Montanti (LA’07) — known professionally as Megan Sara — has always felt a connection to the natural world. Interested in biology, she enrolled at Purdue in the College of Science; however, she soon realized her heart wasn’t in it. Montanti’s education prior to college had been very focused on the arts, and she […]
Visitors to the Mullins Reading Room in the Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC) may be taken by surprise when gazing at the study area’s north wall. Quietly imposing, a near life-size replica of Emanuel Leutze’s masterpiece Washington Crossing the Delaware presides over hushed, contemplative students. The authorized copy of the famous work was commissioned in […]
Urbanscape installation takes top honors at SOFA CONNECT It was an idea that started with an insect. And from there a masterpiece was born, as that drawing of a dead insect inspired “Urban Nature: A Recycled Sanctuary,” the installation that won first prize at the 2016 SOFA Chicago CONNECT student design competition, which took […]
Strategic planning may not often be described as thrilling, but for Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko (LA’94), it’s one of the best parts of her job as the president and chief executive officer of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine. “I love imagining a future with a group of people and looking at the reality of what’s […]
Purdue Memorial Union is home to many traditions and memorials, including a stained glass window, located at the southwest entrance, dedicated to a past Purdue president. The stained glass window is dedicated to the memory of James H. Smart, president of Purdue from 1883 to 1900. It was donated in 1940 by Alice Earl Stuart, […]
The last ‘Fire Sculpture’ by the late Nina Hole ignites campus The sun is setting on the lawn next to Pao Hall. Spectators surround a burning, house-like sculpture created as its own kiln — the last Fire Sculpture designed by the late, world-renowned ceramic artist Nina Hole. An orange luminescence reflects on the faces in […]
A sophomore aeronautical engineering student captures Purdue from a scientific perspective When Trevor Mahlmann sees a dot pass through the sky, he doesn’t wish upon a star — because it’s not happenstance that he is looking up. He knows the dot is not a shooting star or other object soaring through space. He is standing […]
At age 10, Janice Voss (AAE’75) read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, a children’s book about space, time travel, and the gravitational pull of family. Immediately, Janice’s universe exploded. Within the pages of that classic science fiction book, Janice pinpointed her star, her endless fresh life — she wanted to be an astronaut. […]
