Specimen No. 4 is a small, translucent jellyfish collected near Keyport on the Olympic Peninsula. Not much else is known about the little marine animal, stored in a glass jar labeled with cursive handwriting, other than the date it was collected: July 30, 1899.
“I thought it was so gorgeous,” says Jessica Tir (’23 MS Biol.) who recently retrieved the long-lost specimen, part of an old marine collection.
Bits and pieces, scattered across Heald, Eastlick, and Abelson halls, were found during preparations for the upcoming demolition of Heald Hall, slated for tear-down during the 2025-2027 biennium. The jellyfish was in the Eastlick batch.
Besides Washington State University’s many permanent collections in its museums, the university also has an extensive collection of outdoor artwork.
On the Pullman campus, pieces range from a life-size bronze book-figure Bookin’ by Terry Allen to Palouse Columns by Robert Maki to The Technicolor Heart, a fourteen-foot painted bronze work by Jim Dine.
A large part of WSU’s public art collection is made possible by the percent-for-art Art in Public Places program of the Washington State Arts Commission.
Take a virtual tour of the outdoor* sculptures and other installations by using this ArcGIS map which shows the locations, … » More …
Can experiencing art improve your wellbeing? What better way to answer that question than to visit an art museum at Washington State University.
Ryan Hardesty, executive director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, takes Washington State Magazine editor Larry Clark on a tour of the museum in WSU Pullman’s Crimson Cube. They have plenty to discuss about how people benefit from seeing, hearing, and experiencing art as they visit the exhibits—including Trimpin’s sound sculpture, Keiko Hara’s works of landscapes and dreams, Juventino Aranda’s powerful explorations of identity and home, and Irwin Nash’s photographs of Latino lives in migrant worker communities … » More …
