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Here are a couple of ariel photos of LSC’s Trinity Road campus taken around noon on Thursday, January 24, 2008, one of the winter’s coldest days. Note the full parking lots.

Thanks to Dan Grandmaison photos.

Students in the Integrated Manufacturing program designed and built robots intended to move sand. Six teams tested their projects in a timed competition on Tuesday, December 18.

It’s a like putting a giant jigsaw puzzle together!

LSC staff member Bill Holappa is busy unpacking 130 tiles that make up a ceramic mural that will soon be installed on campus. The work, “Stele,” by Wenzhi Zhang, a renownd ceramic artist from China, recently arrived on campus. The tiles were created in Zhang’s studio at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and shipped nearly half way around the earth via ship, rail, and truck.

The tiles must be unpacked and aligned so that exact measurements for installation can be made. Plans call for the work to be installed on the exterior of the new student services and academic building prior to the end of the semester. It will be approximately 30 feet tall and 13 feet wide.

The project was funded through the Minnesota Percent for Public Art Program, which funds major public art projects in and around state-owned buildings in areas that are accessible to the general public.

Students enrolled in LSC’s Media Studies program produced this video on the Grand Opening of Lake Superior College’s new Academic and Student Services Building.

Another art installation took place on Friday, October 5. “Relic 3″ by Sam Spiczka now hangs in the main entry to the Academic and Student Services Building.

Here’s how Spiczka describes his work:

Visually, my work is inspired by the often unforgiving Minnesota landscape. In it, animal bones and rock formations are transformed into timeless memorials. Geometric forms are often merged with the organic as a symbol of our ability to transform not only our environment, but ourselves as well.

The piece is crafted from cor-ten steel, also know as “weathering steel” because of its low maintenance requirements and attractive rusty patina.

Spiczka is a noteworthy regional artist working out of Sartell, Minnesota. The piece was purchased with funds from the Minnesota Percent for Art in Public Places Program.

The “Amazing Jeffo” performed in the Lake Superior College Commons on Wednesday, October 3. Billed as “not your typical blind magician,” Jeffo entertained the lunchtime crowd with an inspiring blend of comedy, music and magic.

The event was a Disability Awareness Month activity.

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As the new Academic and Student Services Building nears completion, we are beginning to get some images of the new facility. This shot was taken at sunrise by Duluth News Tribune photographer Zack Hitchcock for for use in a special section of the News Tribune that will run on Sunday, September 16.

A grand opening ribbon-cutting ceremony is planned for 2 p.m. on Friday, September 21. The public is invited.

(At right) Students inspect the halls prior to the start of fall classes.

Photo by Zack Hitchcock

Here is a rendering of Lake Superior College’s proposed Health and Science Building. LSC is seeking bonding funds to build the new facility during the upcoming session of the Minnesota State Legislature.

This video outlines Lake Superior College’s plan to develop a Center for Advanced Aviation.

For more information, contact Candace Barnack, c.barnack@lsc.edu.

The clip is available at youtube.com/watch?v=1TirnQ3lK4E or www.blip.tv/file/195686/.

The sun casts pools of orange light in upper concourse at sunrise.

Photo by Cathy Tonkin.