Lunch with Sherry Rouse
Art in the IMU

All University Club members and their guests are welcome!

Date: Friday, March 5
Time: 11:45 am - 1:00 pm

Location: Presidents' Room

Speaker: Art in the IMU

Cost:Members $13
Non-Members $15

Reservations are required.

This program was planned for you by the Luncheon Club (The merged group - formerally the Women's Faculty and Staff and the Men's Faculty Club)

Art in the IMU

Pictured is a T.C. Steele painting that hangs in the University Club President's Room. The painting was purchased by the Men's Faculty Club in 1912.

For Sherry Rouse, curator of campus art at Indiana University, it's a different story.

Veritas Filia Temporis (Truth, Daughter of Time), a work by the late Robert Laurent who once taught at IU, is on the west wall of Ballantine Hall in Bloomington. It's a favorite of Sherry Rouse (photo below), curator of campus art for IU's eight campuses. Throughout the campuses, employees, students and visitors pass by any number of the university's art treasures each day--an antique chair, a screen, a limestone gargoyle, a piece of crystal. They're all part of the visual legacy that helps define the university. A detail from Laurent's work is pictured above; the sculptor is perhaps better known for his work on Showalter Fountain in the IUB Fine Arts Plaza, which depicts the birth of Venus. Photos by Heather Hill

It's anything but refrigerator art--these oils, etchings, furniture, china, rugs, sculptures and other fine pieces--owned by the university. On eight campuses, Sherry Rouse is cataloguing IU's extensive collections 'outside museum walls.'

"Almost anywhere you look, there is something beautiful to enjoy--oils, etchings, watercolors, woodcuts, photographs and lithographs, and decorative arts like antique furniture, china, crystal, rugs, screens, wallpapers and tools. And there is sculpture--from a modern Alexander Calder in front of the Musical Arts Center to the gargoyles on historic campus buildings."

Rouse is approaching her first-year anniversary as curator of campus art for all eight IU campuses, a risk management position new to the university. Her responsibilities center around cataloguing and collecting data about the art kept at IU outside of museum walls.

Indiana University and the Indiana Memorial Union have a rich history of commitment to the arts and creative expression. Started in 1923 when IU students purchased six paintings from artist-in-residence Theodore Clement Steele, the Union’s collection now boasts more than 1,200 two- and three-dimensional pieces including works by distinguished Indiana artists Wayman Adams, C. Curry Bohm, Marie Goth, William Forsyth and Rudy Pozzati.

The Union continues its commitment today, maintiaining and building the existing collection, and by serving as an exhibition space for current students, staff, faculty, and University guests.

More information about Art in the IMU:http://www.indiana.edu/~ocmhp/2008/08-29/story.php?id=2126

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