The TRW Aesthetic Experience
Welcome,
students in The Reflective Woman course, faculty and visitors!
Contained in these pages you will discover a wealth of information about the public art on the campus of St. Catherine University. You will also learn about the people and ideas that created these works. We encourage you to visit these works of art, read about them and come to your own conclusions about them.
The materials gathered here are intended to support assignments in the TRW course's second unit, entitled "Experiencing Art and the Aesthetic." The documents on these pages have been collected from the College Archives, personal statements, books, newspapers and other sources. Our goal is to provide students the opportunity to perform in-depth research for this unit whether they are on- or off-campus.
While each one of you may not feel personally drawn to every piece of public art, perhaps during the course of this assignment you will take some extra time to consider why art is created and the role art serves in our culture. With St. Catherine University celebrating 100 years of educating women, we hope you will take a few minutes to appreciate not just the quality of your education here, but the care and thought that has gone into growing our beautiful campus.
(Photo: St. Francis sculpted by Peter Lupori, located in the English Garden)
List of Featured Artworks
Our
Lady of Victory Chapel
The English Garden
Zerogee, by Paul Granlund
Mary, by Peter Lupori
Labyrinth behind Carondelet Center
The Resurrection Group, by John Rood
The O'Shaughnessy
Sacred Heart
The Dew Drop
The Ade Bethune Collection
Venus on the Road Again, by Miranda Blazevic
Derham Hall works
(The Library does not currently have information about the art works in the Coeur de Catherine. When the records on these works are sent to the college archives, we will make them available on these pages. To learn more about the mural or other works, please talk to Deb Miner, the director of Student Life and Activities.)
College History
For detailed information about the history of St. Catherine University, please see the book More Than a Dream, by Rosalie Ryan, CSJ, and John Christine Wolkerstorfer, CSJ (1992).
Copies are available on permanent reserve and in the Reference ( Call number: LD 4797 .S34 R83 1992). See CLICnet for availability of circulating copies.