With wind chills below zero earlier this month, even Millie the Millipede who resides outdoors on the Wichita State campus was brought inside.
Well, sort of.
To preview a new exhibition at WSU’s Ulrich Museum that includes augmented reality technology, museum staff posted a photo on the museum’s Facebook page in mid-January showing Millie hanging out in the museum’s lobby. The Tom Otterness sculpture physically sits in a median south of the museum, near the 17th and Hillside entrance to the WSU campus.
The exhibition, “Fully Dimensional: Artists of the Outdoor Sculpture Collection,” is one of three new spring exhibitions now open that kick off the museum’s 50th anniversary events. The other exhibitions are “Urban Canvas | Exploring Muralism in Wichita” and “The Ulrich Co-Lab.”
A common thread among the exhibitions is to engage visitors with art at the Ulrich and in the community in different ways, say museum staff.
For the “Fully Dimensional” exhibition, curator Jo Reinert is introducing visitors to other works of art created by 35 artists whose sculptures are part of WSU’s Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection.