Day Trip to Urbana-Champaign - Part I [UIUC Campus]

July 3, 2012: A Day trip to UIUC..

UIUC stands for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.

On an extremely hot summer day, with temperature ranging from 96- 98-degree F. What triggered the trip was the news of the impending removal of the famous Lorado Taft statue, "Alma Mater" from the campus, for about a year, for the much-needed restoration.  The staue is supposed to be removed in August 2012 and brought back in May 2013.  I had long wanted to see this statue, and I wanted to see it before it was removed. Like any premier university, UIUC has many sculptures in its campus. There was no point returning back seeing just one piece, so I tried to see as many as possible. And here they are...

My Urbana-Champaign trip can be subdivide them into three categories:
- UIUC Campus
- Krannert Art Museum
- Wandell Sculpture Garden in Meadowbrook Park

This post is on Public Art in the UIUC Campus..

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Alma Mater - by Lorado Taft

Unveiled on Alumni Day: June 11, 1929.

Location: UIUC Campus, Altgeld Hall

corner of W Green St. and S Wright St.

at UIUC [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]

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Diana Fountain - by Carl Milles

Location: Courtyard west of Illini Union

at UIUC [ University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign]

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Fragments from Lorado Taft's "Fountain of Creation"

Sons and Daughters of Deucalion and Pyrrha

Daughters: East side of the Main Library

Sons: South side of Foellinger Auditorium

At UIUC [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]

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Eternal Flame

A gift from graduating class of 1912

Location: between Lincoln Hall and the English Building

at UIUC [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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McFarland Memorial Bell Tower

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Darwin's Playground - by Anthony G. Tasset

Installed: June 2007

Three brightly colored, irregularly shaped free-standing sculptures

made of polyurethane with fiberglass coating

Location: West of Institute of Genomic Biology

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Argounaut III - by Ed McCullough

Installed: 1979

Cor-ten steel; 11' x 24'

Location: North side of Agricultural Engineering Sciences

At UIUC [University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]

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Aurora I - by Bruce White

Installed: 1980

Cor-ten steel; 32' long

Location: west side of Agricultural Engineering Sciences,

UIUC [University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign..

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Tree of Life Fantasy - by Alice Aycock

Installed: 1992

Location: Lorado Taft Drive, near the Education Building,

at UIUC [University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]

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Nigth Train - by Michael Dunbar

Dedicated: Sep 5, 2002.

Location: south side of Architecture Building,

at UIUC [University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]

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Nathan Austin Weston Memorial Fountain

Dedicated: 1997.

Location: West side of David Kinley Hall,

at UIUC [University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]

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Centennial - by Robert Youngman

Installed: 1976

Location: Northeast corner of Peabody Drive and Fourth Street,

at UIUC [University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]

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Mananaan - by Alexander Lieberman

Installed: 1986

welded steel / 26' x 24'6 x 16'6

Location: South of Grainger Engineering Library

at UIUC [University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign]

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Boneyard Creek flows through the university campus..

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Computing A Future - by J. Seward Johnson Jr.

5 September 2009

Location: Grainger Engineering Library,

at UIUC [ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]

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Upwells - by Stephen Luecking

Installed: 1990

Granite and bronze/ 40' high spire

Location: Central plaza south of Beckman Institute,

at UIUC [University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign..

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Science and Arts - by Charles A. Beil and Leon Hermant

Limestone cartouche

Location: West entrance of University High School,

at UIUC [University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign]

Also worth checking out.. is the Morrow Plots..

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Morrow Plots

designated a Registered National Historic Landmark

For more, click here...

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RELATED LINKS..
A Day Trip to Urbana-Champaign: July 3, 2012.. click here..

Alma Mater - by Lorado Taft.. click here
Fragments of "Fountain of Creation"- by Lorado Taft.. click here
Diana Fountain - by Carl Milles ..click here
Eternal Flame.. click here
McFarland Memorial
Morrow Plots click here...
Darwin's Playground - by Anthony G. Tasset.. click here
Argonaut III - by Ed McCullough.. click here
Aurora I - by Bruce White.. click here
Tree of Life Fantasy - by Alice Aycock
Night Train - by Michael Dunbar.. click here
Nathan Austin Weston Memorial
Centennial - by Robert Youngman .. click here..
Mananaan - by Alexander Lieberman click here
Computing A Future - by J. Seward Johnson Jr.,  click here...
Upwells - by Stephen Luecking.. click here..
Science and Arts - by Charles A. Beil and Leon Hermant

A Day Trip to Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
July 3, 2012..
The trip is divided into four parts..
[1] Part I [UIUC Campus] .. click here...
[2] Part II [ Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion: Outdoor Sculptures].. click here
[3] Part III [Krannert Art Museum: Lorado Taft] click here
[4] Part IV [ Wendell Sculpture Garden in Meadowbrook Park].. click here..