Program Agenda

In addition to the Museum of Art & Archaeology's galleries of original works, the Museum also hosts a remarkable collection of casts of major works. The Cast Gallery is located on the Museum's first floor, facing historic Francis Quadrangle on the University's celebrated Red Campus.

The collections were part of the Museum's predecessor, the Museum of Classical Archaeology and History of Art. During the Depression years both the Museum of Classical Archaeology and History of Art and the academic Department of Art History and Archaeology were disbanded, and the collections moved into storage. The Museum was re-established in 1957, the Department in 1960, and the Cast Collection is now on long-term loan from the Department to the Museum.

Please join us for hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar.

Perry Chapman’s examination of the evolution of the American campus, through the SCUP Campus Heritage Network, to the University of Missouri’s Pride of Place campus heritage network. Part One of Perry Chapman’s presentation will consider the historical evolution of campus placemaking in America, providing a primer from which people can then observe specific applications at the University of Missouri (aka Mizzou). Part Two of Chapman’s address will provide members of the audience with a developing sense of how the University of Missouri has established and enhanced its sense of place through campus master planning, which Chapman himself directed for fifteen years.

University of Missouri Chancellor Brady Deaton will briefly speak about the importance of place and campus heritage to the MU student learning experience. Deaton will then introduce Claire Turcotte from SCUP, who will consider the evolution of the SCUP Campus Heritage Network. Turcotte will talk about the entire grant project, the research that was conducted, and the final products such as a website, book, and symposium that were created in this effort. Arthur Mehrhoff, academic coordinator for the Museum of Art & Archaeology at the University of Missouri, will then introduce the Pride of Place campus heritage network, relate it to the SCUP Campus Heritage Network, and introduce the three Pride of Place panelists:

• Pete Millier, director of MU Campus Landscape Services
• Ruth Tofle, chair of the MU Architectural Studies program
• James Spain, MU vice-provost for Undergraduate Affairs

who will speak, respectively, about how the university’s campus landscape, buildings, and traditions both foster a sense of collective identity as well as imaginative new interpretations of that campus heritage. If time allows, the Monday morning presentations will conclude with a showing of a popular video about historic Francis Quadrangle entitled “Rich in Classic Beauty”.

The tours below will be offered concurrently at 1:15 PM-2:00 PM, 2:15 PM-3:00 PM, and 3:15 PM-4:00 PM, to allow attendees to join each tour in the order they prefer.

Participants should meet at Speakers Circle (#14 on map) to begin each tour.

The Carnahan Quadrangle
The Carnahan Quadrangle south of Jesse Hall symbolizes the university’s vision for the future formed and articulated through a careful campus master planning process over the past three decades. The new buildings and carefully landscaped gardens of the Carnahan Quadrangle (such as the Reynolds Alumni Center, a statue of iconic cartoon character Beetle Bailey created by popular MU alum Mort Walker, the Tiger Plaza, and the recently opened MU Student Center) that have grown out of this planning process (itself an important aspect of our campus heritage) create pride of place to make new campus history. This role was never more apparent than in November 2008 when then-Senator and now President of the United States Barack Obama, the first African-American President in our nation’s history, chose it as the site for a crucial national campaign visit.

Francis Quadrangle
Francis Quadrangle, a National Historic District, symbolizes our history and traditions at the University of Missouri, the first public university located in the Louisiana Purchase territory. Francis Quadrangle, just north of Jesse Hall, combines the origins of the University (such as the iconic Columns remaining from the fire that destroyed Old Academic Hall, the elegant Italianate Residence on the Quadrangle home to university leaders since 1865, and historic Switzler Hall now being renovated into a technologically advanced learning environment) with monuments and memorials (such as Thomas Jefferson’s original tombstone, the touching memorial to Missouri Governor David Francis, and the tolling bell of Switzler Hall ) to create pride of place for some of Mizzou’s most important traditions such as the Tiger Walk, Tap Day, and Commencement.

Campus Gallery Crawl
The annual Campus Gallery Crawl held each September has quickly become one of Mizzou’s most popular annual events, especially for eager incoming students. Our May 2 afternoon tour will visit three of the key campus heritage sites found on the Campus Gallery Crawl to give SCUP conference attendees a flavor of the event. The tour will include the beautiful Collegiate Gothic Memorial Union (1925), home of the lively and diverse MU Craft Studio, to see how today’s students see and shape their own lives through a variety of media; the classicism of the Beaux-Art Ellis Library, home of the State Historical Society of Missouri with its outstanding collection of works by Missouri artists George Caleb Bingham and Thomas Hart Benton; and the eclectic red-brick and limestone Swallow Hall on historic Francis Quadrangle, home to the Museum of Anthropology and its fascinating collections of native American and early Missouri frontier artifacts.

Join us in beautiful Traditions Lounge for the University of Missouri’s famous Buck’s Tiger Stripe ice cream.