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Art creates a 'sense of place'
![A very large bronze leave lays in the lawn as if blown off a tree](/content/dam/magazine/images/0714/Sculpture and galleries/Belief_sculpture.jpg ""Belief," a cast-bronze sculpture by Terry Allen, looks as it if has fallen off a very large bronze tree at the base of steps outside the Vontz Center")
In its many forms, art can arouse emotions and create a sense of place. Establishing that feeling has long been an important goal at UC.
With the acquisition, the commission and the display of a variety of artwork, UC has aimed to evoke feelings of belonging to a community. Its presence might be subtle to students, but showcasing sculpture, art and artistic landscapes throughout the university has been a successful tangible goal. Today, UC boasts six galleries on four campuses and 23 pieces of sculpture.
A small, striking sample follows.
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Sculpture
- “Art Beat,” Tim Prentice, 1998, Cardiovascular Research Center atrium
- “Anatomy Vessel,” Eric Nordgulen, 2012, UC Blue Ash Campus Quadrangle
- Bearcat statue, Jon Hair, 2010, northeastern corner outside Marge Schott Stadium
- “Belief” (Be Leaf), Terry Allen, 1999, behind Vontz Center
- “Core Couple II,” Stuart Fink, 1980, at Clifton Ave. and Clifton Dr.
- “Crystal Garden,” Dennis Oppenheim, 2003, moved to University Avenue turnround
- “Figura-Prima,” Magdalena Abakanowicz, 1995, CCM Plaza
- “Five Lines in Parallel Planes,” George Rickey, 1995, CARE/Crawley’s north lawn
- Florence Nightingale bronze bust, Father Jerome Cox of Italy, 1996; gift of Florence Nightingale’s great-grandniece, Joan Nightingale Fox; Procter Hall entrance
- “Forest Devil,” Kenneth Snelson, 1977, Zimmer Roof Garden
- Herman Schneider statue, Anna Christoforidis, 2007, in front of Baldwin Hall
- “Light Mast,” James Carpenter, 1999, near CCM Starbucks
- “LIVE,” Gary Rieveschl, 1976, in the lawn on the Clifton Avenue side of DAAP
- Mick and Mack, small copies of an Italian pair in Florence’s Loggia dei Lanzi, 1904 installed on campus; McMicken Hall entrance
- “Memorial Fountain to Clara Baur,” Clement Barnhorn, 1914, CCM Alumni Garden
- Oscar Robertson statue, Blair Buswell, 1994, east of Lindner Center’s main entrance
- “Richardson’s Rocks,” designed and constructed by professor H.H. Richardson’s architecture students, 1972, Burnet Woods
- “Ronald Walker Tower of Light,” Machado and Silvetti Assoc., 1998, Sigma Sigma Commons
- “Skybird,” Peter Reginato, 1987, Zimmer Hall entry from Nautilus Plaza
- “Super Twister,” Alice Aycock, 2013, CARE/Crawley entrance
- “The Three Muses,” Sam Gilliam, 1999, CCM front lobby
- “Triceracopter: The Hope for the Obsolescence of War,” former professor Patricia Renick, 1977, installed in Lansgam Library 2010
- “Untitled” (bronze beams look like a walking man), Joel Shapiro, 1990, University Commons
- Chief Justice William Howard Taft statue, Michael Bigger, 1991, behind College of Law
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