26 ForOregonState.org/Stater C U LT UR E JACOB ADAMS ART FOR EVERYONE Take a tour of new and lesser-known OSU campus artwork. BY > MOLLY ROSBACH Adorable bronze animals just begging to be part of a selfie; a swooping sunset-colored spiral staircase; the microscopic cells of a tree made massive. The Percent for Art in Public Places program means that no matter where you go throughout Oregon State University, you’re never far from a masterpiece, be it structural, functional, breathtaking or bizarre. Established in 1975, the statewide legislation requires all publicly funded buildings in Oregon with construction costs of more than $100,000 to set aside 1% of their budget for artworks that are accessible to the public. OSU alone boasts more than 350 pieces of art, primarily in Corvallis but also at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon State University –Cascades in Bend, the Food Innovation Center in Portland and even the Seafood Research and Education Center in Astoria. Staff at the new Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx), which opens April 6, have begun working on a project to install QR codes next to every Percent for Art piece at OSU; visitors will be able to scan the codes with a smartphone camera and learn more about the art as they walk around campus. Here’s a tour of some of the new- ↑ From high above, Ann Hamilton’s new installation in the Cordley Hall courtyard spells out a poem about biodiversity.
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