ECU Artwalk 2012!

At the first All-HSA meeting of the Fall semester, Dr. Brad Jessop, Director of ECU's School of Fine Arts, took Honors Program students on an artwalk (OK, art-trot) around campus, pointing out some the many works of fine art that many of us too often overlook on our way to and from class.  Over the course of the evening, Dr. Jessop talked to us about:

•his Indiana-Jones-like search for the Lost Treasures of the Linscheid Museum (coming soon to a campus near you!);

•the legendary origins of Roary's pilgrimage to Ada from Stillwater;

•the flowerbed that lies just a few feet about the campus's communication nexus (and "Ascension," the ECU sculpture that almost brought that nexus to its knees);

•the European consensus that the Father of Minimalist Art is an ECU graduate and a Native American (who failed his drawing class here!) and doesn't get the same love from American textbook writers;

•the ECU artist who learned to think laterally and ended up as Vice-President of Nokia Phones;

•the mysterious Matisse study that may or may not be a missing rung in the master's ladder (we say "yes!"). And, of course, as the TV commercials say, "much, much more."   Our next meeting is Monday, October 5th.  We'll be in the Estep.  Hope to see you there!