Sandra C. Haynes
Podcast #1	Introduction
Artist-in-Residence Fine Art Collection
Shatford Library, Galloway Plaza and the Boone Sculpture Garden
Pasadena City College
August 2006

Welcome to Pasadena City College and the first in a series of podcasts describing an extraordinary collection of fine art.  This collection of paintings, prints, mixed media pieces, and sculpture has been amassed over a period of twenty years as part of the Artist-in-Residence Program in the Visual Arts and Media Studies Division of the College.  The artist, at the conclusion of a one-week residency, donated each work of art as a gift to the school. 

Hello, my name is Sandra Haynes, senior art historian in the Visual Arts Division and member of the Artist-in-Residence Committee for some 15 years.  It will be my pleasure to introduce you to the collection. 

Most of the collection of works of art is displayed in the Shatford Library on campus.  We will be going inside the library eventually, but will begin our tour in the Boone Sculpture Garden, which is located on the south side of the library.  The Sculpture Garden, designed by nationally recognized, environmental artist Jody Pinto was dedicated in the spring of 1999, six years after the completion of the Shatford Library. The Boone Sculpture Garden was the conception of emeritus professor of painting at P.C.C., Suzanne Bravender, and in part, was inspired by the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden at UCLA-a tough act to follow.  Such an impressive, user-friendly space in the form of a garden is a rarity on the campus of a public, community college.  Its presence says much about the dedication of this campus to the arts.  

Looking south from the library plaza entrance, the entire garden site between the Administration or "C" Building on the right and Armen Sarafian Hall or the "U" Building on the left, was for years, a parking lot.  Decommissioning a parking lot is a major commitment in southern California!  Jody Pinto reflected on this commitment in her statement about the design for the garden:  

	"The act of gardening was perhaps the beginning of community itself.  Designs 	based upon survival, worship, pleasure, and the hereafter have given cultural 	definition to communities since early civilization.  In setting aside prime space for 	a sculpture garden, Pasadena City College is reaffirming this tradition." (Pinto)

Jody Pinto goes on to describe her conception of the space as "a garden of activities" where students, faculty, staff and visitors feel free to interact. 

From Galloway Plaza, the sculpture garden spreads downhill bisected by a 450-feet long by three feet wide shallow channel of water that cascades downstream to the lower plaza dominated by the Jameson Foundation amphitheater, which provides a site for performances.  

We won't be walking down quite that far to look at the first work of art from the Artist-in-Residence Program to be considered. You should be able to hear the water [capture gurgling sound] as we make our way south and west down the central path and then look off to the right.  In a small grove of dwarf olive and birch trees is the bronze sculpture, Bound Goat, Santa Cruz (1982) by California-based sculptor, Jack Zajac.  Let's have a closer look. 




Boone Sculpture Garden
	http://www.pasadena.edu/foundation/FundedProjects/sculpture.cfm#sculpture 

ISC International Sculpture Center 	http://www.sculpture.org/documents/parksdir/p&g/boonepas/boone.shtml 

Pinto, Jody, "The Boone Sculpture Garden," written for groundbreaking, 3 February 	1998, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California.  



Haynes(c)2006



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