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Ulrich Museum Outdoor Sculpture Tour
Join us for a wonderful walking tour of The Ulrich Museum of Art's world-class Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection. The collection boasts 86 works spread across the 330-acre Wichita State University campus. On the tour we will learn about half of the sculptures. The Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art was established in 1974 to enhance and support Wichita State University's educational and service missions. Then-president Clark Ahlberg believed a superior university should be ever mindful of the thriving city surrounding it. In 1977, he articulated this belief: "We have an obligation to reach as many people as possible and to do it with the highest standards-in this case, the highest artistic standards-if we are to properly serve this urban area." The Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection established in 1972 is a unique and priceless collection recognized nationally for its world-class works of art. It is an integral part of the daily campus experience, creating a powerful and joyful place for WSU students, faculty, staff and the community. Defining the WSU campus with beauty and distinction, the collection features works by Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Fernando Botero, Andy Goldsworthy, Tom Otterness and many more. We will also have the honor of viewing the Susan Copich: Staged Stories Exhibition. Ohio-raised and New York-based photographer Susan Copich has since 2010 been making highly staged and carefully crafted self-portraits that reflect on the dark sides of contemporary American femininity, domesticity, motherhood, and the artist's inner psychological dramas in ways that that are both alarming and amusing, over-the-top and relatable. This exhibition brings together the series Domestic Bliss and then he forgot my name alongside a short film titled The Cupcake. As Copich herself says about these works, "I dwell in the dark thoughts and recesses of my mind to create character and subject and navigate both my own personal imperatives as woman, artist, mother, and wife, as well as those-personal, social, and cultural-that are imposed by others. My work is my commentary on how a family can live a public life that is far from their private life, even within the family; how secrets are kept, coddled and nurtured." Note: Some adult content.