{"id":16588,"date":"2013-10-24T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=16588"},"modified":"2013-10-24T06:13:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T11:13:46","slug":"austin-peay-state-university-center-of-excellence-labels-restored-sculpture-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2013\/10\/24\/austin-peay-state-university-center-of-excellence-labels-restored-sculpture-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence labels restored sculpture on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-47306\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/apsu-logo-200x123.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"123\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; In June 2012, local artist Mike Andrews returned to Austin Peay State University to restore an outdoor sculpture he\u2019d installed on campus in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>The piece, \u201cLight Modulator,\u201d was placed on a small, grassy hill outside the University\u2019s Kimbrough Building, where it sat for almost three decades exposed to not only the sun, but also strong winds, downpours, numerous ice and snowstorms and the slow but relentless advance of moss and lichen.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_193667\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/light-modulator.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193667\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-193667\" title=\"Light Modulator\" alt=\"Light Modulator\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/light-modulator-480x360.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-193667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Light Modulator<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Andrews and Christopher Burawa, director of the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative arts, revived the aging sculpture, repairing dents and cleaning it with a pressure washer.<\/p>\n<p>The piece now interacts with the movement of the sun, as it was originally intended, but students didn\u2019t know what to call it.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts landscaped around the base of the sculpture with marble chips and added a sign identifying the work as \u201cLight Modulator.\u201d The sign also recognized Andrews as the artist.<\/p>\n<p>The APSU Center of Excellence paid for the renovation and the signage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt that we had to do something because we\u2019re the stewards of these pieces,\u201d Burawa said last summer. \u201cWe really have to insure that they\u2019re kept up and maintained. Artworks like \u2018Light Modulator\u2019 are now a part of APSU\u2019s identity and add to the environment of the University.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information on this project, contact the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at 931.221.7876.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; In June 2012, local artist Mike Andrews returned to Austin Peay State University to restore an outdoor sculpture he\u2019d installed on campus in 1985. The piece, \u201cLight Modulator,\u201d was placed on a small, grassy hill outside the University\u2019s Kimbrough Building, where it sat for almost three decades exposed to not only the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,589,9986,262,2509,512,825,14897,21121],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-4jy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16589,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16588\/revisions\/16589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}