Sculpture Garden

Landscape and Sculpture

The collaboration of sculpture and landscape architecture will pay tribute to the environment that surrounds us and the industrial influences of the region. This investment in the cultural aspect of the university will impact the aesthetic value and cultural diversification of the campus climate. Outdoor sculpture by nature is public and, like architecture, is dependent on commissions and site for the fulfillment of its vision.

Both the garden and its sculptures, for instance, will closely reflect the culture and ecology of northwest Indiana: an industrial landscape at the eastern edge of the prairie. The landscape portion of the design is meant to complement the sculptures while creating a serene and simple backdrop reflective of the ecological heritage of our region. Cynthia Owen-Bergland states, “It is my intent that the grasses and flowers in this garden reflect the spirit of place of the disappearing Savannas, and that the fountain and boulders remind us of our ties to the ice and water that created the land here.”