University Archives is home to a wide variety of items that provide documentary evidence of activities on this campus over time. The holdings range from textual documents like letters, reports, newspapers, yearbooks, and meeting minutes to photographs, audio and video recordings, blueprints and landscape drawings, and some artifacts.
Archives are generally organized not by topic, but by creator and/or by institutional structure. Therefore, when searching for information about sculptures on campus, it is important to think broadly about the context of the sculptures. What do you know about who created it? Why does it exist on UNI's campus? Who was responsible for bringing it here? When was it constructed?
To start, I recommend searching IndexUNI for specific sculptures, artists, and faculty. See the Find Books and Articles tab in this guide for detailed information about this. Using articles from the campus newspaper, alumni newsletter, etc, you can begin answering some basic contextual information about different sculptures. Take note of key people, groups, and dates, as this will be useful as you search.
Then, using that information, you can begin searching within University Archives using ArchivesSpace, our archives collections and finding aid database. For help using ArchivesSpace, see this user guide. Again, it is important to think broadly about the context because it is unlikely that a sculpture title will appear in the description within the classification schedule. For example:
This will help you dig into faculty papers, committee records, and other materials that can shed light on the sculptures on campus.
Some specific samples with relevant information about sculptures and artwork on campus are below: