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Toff the Cat
This statue in the Gould Library memorializes the late Toff, a cat known for roaming Carleton’s campus freely until his death on March 6, 2011 at 14 years old. While he officially belonged to two Carleton professors, Roger and Martha Paas, Toff was considered by many to be adopted by the entire school. Toff was…
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Jo-ryo-en (The Garden of Quiet Listening)
During his second visit to Japan, Dr. Bardwell Smith, Professor of Asian Studies, discovered Kyoto and its “wealth of gardens” (Smith, 2000), and vowed that Carleton would someday have a Japanese Garden of its own. The site for the project was chosen in 1974 and its design and construction were completed by 1976, with the…
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The Laudie Porter Memorial Sundial
The first sundial was built in 1921 as a memorial for Anna T. Lincoln. During her time at Carleton, Lincoln often desired a beautiful dial on the “bare” campus. On May 22, 1921, the board of trustees voted for the creation of the memorial to Anna T and officially dedicated it to her on June…
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Untitled Fiber Sculpture
This huge woven sculpture (22 feet by 17 feet) hangs on the main floor of the library against the east wall beside a bank of windows. Artist and Carleton Alum (‘34), Signe Oritz, began her process by studying the lighting conditions and colors in the space in 1985 and finished the sculpture one year later…
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The Carleton Arch
The Carleton Arch, built outside the Gould Library in 1986, was designed by internationally renowned sculptor Dimitri Hadzi and commissioned as a gift to the College by Robert Larson ‘56 and Karen Larson. The sculpture is 18 feet tall, constructed primarily of six different kinds of stone from six different quarries around the U.S. and…
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Fountain
Fountain was designed by Professor Raymond Jacobson of the Carleton Art Department as a Commission for Carleton College’s Centennial Celebration in 1967 (Perlman Museum). Russell Ferlen (college “instrument maker”) helped develop the mechanism that allows the sculpture to rotate. Together, they spent four months working on the sculpture.
Sculptures at Carleton
a DGAH 110 Final Project by Maddie Smith, Claire Saunders, Kattie Meraz, Adiana Contreras, and Helana Solomon
