{"id":556,"date":"2013-05-07T20:11:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T20:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lamp1.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=556"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:22:17","slug":"art-meets-math-and-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2013\/05\/07\/art-meets-math-and-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Art meets math and science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Collins says the two sculptures he created for<strong> <\/strong>Remington Hall are meant to resonate with both scientists and mathematicians, since those departments are housed in the hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusic of the Spheres,\u201d about six feet in diameter, is a bronze, approximately 1,800-lb. sculpture and graces the lawn on the north side of Remington Hall. \u201cEvolving Trefoil,\u201d a fiberglass resin sculpture, is suspended from the ceiling of the Remington Hall atrium.<\/p>\n<p>The outdoor sculpture, cast by Reinmuth Bronze Studio in Eugene, Ore., was placed on a stainless steel base in January, and the indoor sculpture arrived in February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvolving Trefoil\u201d weighs about 400 lbs. and fits inside a 12-ft. diameter sphere. It was constructed by David Lynn of Nova Blue Studio Arts in Seymour, Mo.<\/p>\n<p>The sculptures, which cost a little over $200,000, are funded by the Remington\/Agenstein halls construction and renovation project that was completed in December 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The two sculptures join \u201cGalileo\u2019s Vision,\u201d created by Jim Estes, a Missouri Western art faculty member, that is near the south entrance of the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Collins says the two sculptures he created for Remington Hall are meant to resonate with both scientists and mathematicians, since those departments are housed in the hall. \u201cMusic of the Spheres,\u201d about six feet in diameter, is a bronze, approximately 1,800-lb. sculpture and graces the lawn on the north [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4175,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/4175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}