Oregon’s Percent for Art in Public Places project has long been layering our common spaces with creative explorations of the built environment that surrounds us. At OSU’s recently revitalized Cordley Hall, home to an array of labs and classes for the university’s science programs, this artistic infusion literally hit the ground running. Renowned artist Ann Hamilton embedded with OSU scientists and researchers to conceive of a series of projects that transformed the building’s hidden courtyard into a vibrant space with its paving stones encoded with the scientific core of all life around us.
This video, sponsored by the PRAx, dives into the inspiration that fused biology with Hamilton’s imagination to create a transformed space in one of the university’s historic buildings.
- Learn more about the Cordley Hall renovation
- Visit Ann Hamilton’s studio
- Explore the science-art infusion at the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts
