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collection. Under the oversight of Susan Roberts- Manganelli, Manager of Collections, Exhibitions & Conservation, and Hilarie Faberman, Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Curator for Modern & Contemporary Art, a comprehensive outdoor art maintenance program has developed that offers hands-on experience to students and recent graduates from schools including Stanford, John F. Kennedy University, and Buffalo State College. Crew members regularly wash, wax, and brush debris from sculptures and monitor their condition to ensure long-term preservation. They keep a record of all procedures performed, creating a detailed maintenance and conservation history for each piece.


More information on recent projects can be found at the museum’s conservation blog, Cross-Sections


http://cantorscience.wordpress.com/.


Outdoor art at Stanford is in a continual state of renewal, mirroring the campus on which it resides. A site-specific work titled Stone River by Andy Goldsworthy manifests this as its serpentine shape evokes a sense of flow and movement. It is made of sandstone blocks recovered from campus buildings heavily damaged in the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes. Over time, the land around the work will return to its natural state and animals will settle into the site. Stone River acknowledges Stanford’s


The Three Shades, 1881-86, Auguste Rodin


history, the sandstone grounding the work solidly in the past and present, while the work’s long and undulating form propels the viewer toward the future.


In coming years, re-siting existing works and bringing in new loans and acquisitions will provide the opportunity for the university to focus on creating a cohesive collection of campus- wide art. Through Stanford’s campus art, creativity, and its many forms of expressiveness and beauty are made tangible and accessible year-round. Visitors can take advantage of free, guided docent tours of the outdoor sculpture every third Sunday of the month, and can also explore the collection on their own time using the Google map.


Google map Click here.


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