Back in place

Worker secures metal sculpture to limestone base

Photo by Christopher Gannon.

Brandon Williams with campus services, facilities planning and management, secures the base of sculptor John M. Henry's Ice Blue east of the Gerdin Business Building late last month. The solid steel painted sculpture, first installed in 2003 when Gerdin opened, was removed in the winter of 2019 to clear ground for the east addition to Gerdin. During the construction window, the public art incubator at the University of Northern Iowa restored the sculpture, repairing some weather-related corrosion and repainting it. Ice Blue is part of university museums' Art on Campus collection.