Local artist graces the wall of the Arkansas Union with mural
Larry Burge
Issue date: 8/20/07 Section: News
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Ten feet from the wall's right-hand corner, Jones painted Old Main's clock tower as it extends beyond the building's roof. The mural's tower reaches up the wall about eight feet. Jones placed his mural's title about eye level on "The Principles'" left side. He varied the five principle words with sporadic spacing across the wall and used a special shadowing that from a distance makes the words seem as if stuck to the wall as three-dimensional letters.
Associate dean of students Aisha Kenner was also a committee member. Kenner suggested the principles of the UA be part of the mural. "A group from student affairs office along with UA students came up with the five principles in '02 or '03, while they designed the universal creed to be used by all UA students, faculty and staff," Kenner said.
Kenner said the principles had cleared the staff senate and the Association of Student Government in 2003, and were further endorsed by the student body in 2006. After their endorsements, Kenner and other committee members have seized every opportunity to weave them into UA's diversified fabric. Like other codes and creeds such as those lived by the world's military, religious organizations and other universities, the UA principles express what the university is about, she said.
"The principles express how we should treat one another," Kenner said. "All members of the faculty, staff and students are to live these principles through their daily actions at the University, to weave them into all areas of UA life."
The Division of Student Affairs incorporated the UA principles into its 2007-2010 strategic plan. Its rationale was to address important values of campus life, to encourage ownership, promote positive growth and relationships and to encourage everyone on campus in courteous treatment of others.
Simply put, the five principles represent: integrity stands for honor, mutual respect suggests value every person, citizenship connotes involvement and connection denotes building honest relationships.
Kenner said a major donor behind the mural project was Charlie Whiteside, first vice president at Merrill Lynch and Company Inc. of Little Rock.
Four additional Jones murals grace the walls inside the Union Cafeteria's food court and a fifth mural stretches alongside the Union's south entrance hallway outside the Razorback Shop. Jones earned his fine arts undergraduate degree at UA in 2000.
Associate dean of students Aisha Kenner was also a committee member. Kenner suggested the principles of the UA be part of the mural. "A group from student affairs office along with UA students came up with the five principles in '02 or '03, while they designed the universal creed to be used by all UA students, faculty and staff," Kenner said.
Kenner said the principles had cleared the staff senate and the Association of Student Government in 2003, and were further endorsed by the student body in 2006. After their endorsements, Kenner and other committee members have seized every opportunity to weave them into UA's diversified fabric. Like other codes and creeds such as those lived by the world's military, religious organizations and other universities, the UA principles express what the university is about, she said.
"The principles express how we should treat one another," Kenner said. "All members of the faculty, staff and students are to live these principles through their daily actions at the University, to weave them into all areas of UA life."
The Division of Student Affairs incorporated the UA principles into its 2007-2010 strategic plan. Its rationale was to address important values of campus life, to encourage ownership, promote positive growth and relationships and to encourage everyone on campus in courteous treatment of others.
Simply put, the five principles represent: integrity stands for honor, mutual respect suggests value every person, citizenship connotes involvement and connection denotes building honest relationships.
Kenner said a major donor behind the mural project was Charlie Whiteside, first vice president at Merrill Lynch and Company Inc. of Little Rock.
Four additional Jones murals grace the walls inside the Union Cafeteria's food court and a fifth mural stretches alongside the Union's south entrance hallway outside the Razorback Shop. Jones earned his fine arts undergraduate degree at UA in 2000.
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Janet
posted 8/27/07 @ 10:30 AM EST
uh, duh - do we have an on-line pic of the mural? Would be nice.
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