Two new art works in the new Academic and Student Services Building were recently installed. The pieces were purchased through the Minnesota State Art Board’s Percent for Art Program which funds art in public spaces. “More than Everything,” by Richard Taylor is a mixed media sculpture of welded aluminum and canvas with original and painted surfaces. It is installed in the new building’s front entrance. “This piece is part of a six work series inspired by relevations I have had in my life. I was greatly influenced by the work of the existential writer Sartre and that mind change is reflected in this piece,” explained Taylor. “I was originally a painter. Now I look for common ground between painting and sculpture.” Taylor lives in Milwaukee and summers near Solon Springs, where his wife, Lynn, has family.

“Effigy” by artist Kathy Sandnas is installed in the lower skyway connecting the new building to the rest of the campus. Part of a series, the fifty-pound ceramic sculpture was created out of Minnesota clay and fired in a naboragama, a Japanese-style, wood-fired snake kiln. Sandnas served a three-month Jerome Foundation Fellowship studying with renown potter Richard Bresnhan at St. John’s University where she made the piece. Sandnas also studied ceramics in Japan. She currently teaches at Hibbing Community College. “I am very much influenced by prehistoric art,”said Sandnas. “This piece reflects that simple form.”

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