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Reflecting on the Layout after Installation

Speaker include Lee Grey, Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Architecture and students Philip Cherry and Aoibhin Maguire responding to his question. Partial transcription below: Lee Grey: Worked closely (physically) to the pieces but designing for “up there.” Now that it is installed, how would you do differently? Aoibhin Maguire : Realized how certain textures don’t show as clearly but others do. Also see how some colors work better in combination with others. Philip Cherry: Continue to see new details now that it is installed. Perspective changes once it’s on the wall from seeing it on the floor.

Student Philip Cherry Discusses Artistic Influences

Students Discussing Collaboration

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Students Discussing the Definition of a Library

Partial transcript below: Allison Petrauskas Learned about different skills from each other. Photoshop, printmaking, painting. Able to think about what library means to us through reading articles? Article about how a library is a system and thinking about what other systems are there like anatomy. Finding new avenues for obtaining knowledge. Started with the “cliché of let’s do books” of drawing books. Kianna Balla: “Realized that if you’re stressed out while studying, you don’t want to look at the thing (books) you trying to study.”

Prof. Waterkotte Addressing the Final Layout of Mural Pieces

Screen Capture from Panel Recording

This screen capture is from the recording of the student artist panel and reception held in the Hight Architecture Library in Storrs.