{"id":2673,"date":"2011-04-17T23:36:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T04:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2011-04-21T21:39:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T02:39:39","slug":"mirrors-bring-campus-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/2673","title":{"rendered":"Mirrors bring campus together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight: bold\">Sculpture finishes Hilker Campus Mall<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>By Nick Buth&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>While academic research was on display across campus during the Palmer Symposium, the Hilker Campus Mall was getting its final touches in the form of 20 to 30 tons of limestone with mirror finish stainless steel plates affixed to their surfaces.\u00a0 The stones arriving on site in front of Eppley Auditorium on Tuesday, and being placed in the ground on Wednesday, finished off the new sculpture created by Andr\u00e9a Stanislav.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2687\" style=\"margin: 6px\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2011\/04\/12presentation-200x110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2011\/04\/12presentation-200x110.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2011\/04\/12presentation-400x220.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2011\/04\/12presentation.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just before ten o\u2019clock on Tuesday morning a pair of trucks from a quarry in Anamosa, Iowa arrived on campus carrying the limestone, Iowa\u2019s only commercially harvested stone.\u00a0 Limestone was selected for the sculpture because it is native to Iowa, but also because it matches the front of Eppley Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>Stanislav and her husband Dean Lozow have been working on this sculpture for some time now.\u00a0 They\u2019ve visited the campus and the quarry preparing things for the installation and selecting the site.\u00a0 The lawn between the Eppley driveway and the McCollin parking lot was not the first site proposed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe selected the site because we wanted a place that would be used on an everyday basis, not just special occasions,\u201d explained Stanislav.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost artists wouldn\u2019t do a public install on a slope like this,\u201d said Lozow on Tuesday while working on final preparations for the site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI chose this arrangement because I wanted something that would bring the theatre (Eppley Auditorium) and the street into the heart of the campus,\u201d said Stanislav.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we started the campus green project, we had said from the get-go that the campus really needed more sculpture,&#8221; said Morningside College President John Reynders. \u00a0&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a nice finishing touch. \u00a0It adds art to that center piece of the campus. \u00a0Even when you walk the runway up here and look down, the reflections are just beautiful.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sculpture finishes Hilker Campus Mall By Nick Buth&#8211; While academic research was on display across campus during the Palmer Symposium, the Hilker Campus Mall was getting its final touches in the form of 20 to 30 tons of limestone with mirror finish stainless steel plates affixed to their surfaces.\u00a0 The stones arriving on site in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2730,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}