Public Art and Cultural Heritage Collections Fund

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The IU Public Art and Cultural Heritage Collection is a diverse assembly of artworks that enriches all nine IU campuses. It includes thousands of pieces including paintings, photographs, sculptures, antiques, and more. Aiming to enhance the aesthetic and cultural experience at IU and make art more accessible to students and visitors, these pieces are installed throughout campus grounds—in buildings, courtyards, hallways, and public spaces—rather than in traditional museum or gallery settings.

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IU Research

The IU Public Art and Cultural Heritage Collection is a diverse assembly of artworks that enriches all nine IU campuses. It includes thousands of pieces including paintings, photographs, sculptures, antiques, and more. Aiming to enhance the aesthetic and cultural experience at IU and make art more accessible to students and visitors, these pieces are installed throughout campus grounds—in buildings, courtyards, hallways, and public spaces—rather than in traditional museum or gallery settings.

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The Public Art and Cultural Heritage Collection is Indiana University's accessioned collection of artwork and objects, separate from its museum and library collections. The collection is displayed across all of IU’s campuses and includes photographs, indoor and outdoor sculptures, historic artifacts, paintings, sketches, other works on paper, and more.

From Showalter Fountain—the jewel of the IU Bloomington Fine Arts Plaza—to the T.C. Steele paintings that line the hallways of the Indiana Memorial Union, to the DNA Tower soaring at the IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis, the depth and breadth of the collection is impressive. Your gift to this fund can be used to support all aspects of the collection—including, but not limited to, the acquisition, permanent display, repair and maintenance, and temporary exhibition of works.

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Please note, the name and purpose of the fund displayed on this page constitute the authorized description of the fund by the Indiana University Foundation, Inc. Your gift supports the fund as described herein.