Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia is a 1997 creation from artist Nancy Leiserowitz. Her in artist statement she states, “I have been making life-size figures for many years- both from memory and from the model… Sometimes form comes more freely and with its own truth without confrontation with an actual human being. I am particularly interested in making sculpture … Continued
Cherished
On her 2007 piece with in collaboration with her husband, artist Evelyn Clowes had this to say about their piece: “We created site specific sculptures. We visited MSU to get to know the site and to learn the mission, as our goal was to create an artistic or sculptural expression that speaks to both. We feel this sculpture … Continued
Children Reading
This small yet vibrant glazed terracotta sculpture and fish head fountain spout are part of a garden wall that leads to Sarah Langdon Williams Hall. Completed through the WPA/FAP, the three young girls reading serve as a symbol of education, which is fitting to this once all-female residence hall. Glazed terracotta, 35 in. by 18 … Continued
Children’s Sculpture Garden at Fountain Square Park
The Children’s Sculpture Garden at Fountain Square Park in downtown East Lansing is a whimsical garden that features a number of bronze sculptures, designed to appeal to a child audience. The sculpture garden includes: “Slow Social Climbers and Friends” – made up of different-sized turtles, “Laura” – a bronze statue of a little girl holding … Continued
Circle Back
Circle Back is one of the six artistic bike racks/functional public art pieces installed in downtown East Lansing in 2014 designed to enhance bike parking options and the urban landscape. Made of steel and of a circular concept, artist Paul Such describes that they “wanted to do a circular thing because bikes have a lot of circular motion going … Continued
Clang Tone
Commissioned for the MSU Libraries by Steven Wilensky and Mark Ritzenhein. Stainless steel and bronze. [MSU Lib artwork inventory; MSU Lib. Insight May 2014] 2013
Collateral Damage
The concept for Artist Joseph Mannino’s piece was a quotation from an embroidered pillow on a loveseat belonging to Alice Roosevelt Longworth. It read “If you can’t say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.” The 1999 sculpture was donated to MSU by the artist and the 2006 installation was underwritten by a … Continued
Conocimiento (Knowledge)
Carbon steel 2014
Construction #150
Originally dedicated at the Washington Square Mall in 1973, this abstract sculpture was eventually loaned to Lansing Community College by the City of Lansing for display on the downtown campus in 2008. In the early 1970’s, the Metropolitan Lansing Fine Arts Council requested a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant. The NEA awarded the … Continued
Containment 1
This 2009 piece is an intricate, vein-like structure made of stainless steel. Paine is a sculptor who uses mechanical means and the innate logic of natural forms to create his “Dendroid” tree-like sculptures. His meticulous research and observation of a variety of tree species help him to understand the “language” of how a tree grows, and … Continued