Ulrich Museum at Wichita State University

Overview

Makin’ Hay will be installed at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas from August, 2015 through 2017.

Since it’s founding in 1974, the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University has been committed to enhancing its student environment through the placement of major works of art throughout the 330-acre campus. Today the Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection exhibits seventy-six monumental works by internationally eminent artists such as Fernando Botero, Andy Goldsworthy, Barbara Hepworth, Luis Alfonso Jimenez, Claes Oldenburg, and Tom Otterness.  From its founding in the late 19th century surrounded by cultivated farm ground on the outskirts of Wichita, Wichita State University is now one of three public research universities in Kansas.

Makin’ Hay  clearly references the agrarian past of Wichita State – the athletic teams are known as the “Shockers”, since early students earned money by shocking wheat in the nearby fields. The open space on campus which is the site of Makin’ Hay (which was a former farm) will be transformed in the coming years into the Innovation Campus of WSU, dedicated to applied learning, innovation and entrepreneurship.