Bring Art and Science Together

The KU Department of Geology is planning a partnership with the KU School of Architecture and Design to create a mural in Ritchie Hall. Ritchie Hall has three cutouts in the walls between the first and third floors that were built to simulate a well. The KU Department of Geology has faculty planning content that will feature different geological themes, but they need funds for a graphic design art piece that will help bring the arts and sciences together. The funds raised here will help support the student’s salary along with supplies to complete the project.

• This art piece will span three floors, and the following is a summary of planned themes
  • Third floor:
    • Soil, ground contamination, the buildup of salt, center pivot irrigation 
    • Background: pump jack, wind turbine (renewables, fossil fuels/oil/gas), not too much sky
    • Seismic truck on the surface
    • Sits outside Geology classrooms on the 3rd floor
  • Second floor: 
    • Subsurface, High Plains Aquafer, Stratigraphy, water table, cone of depression
    • Tying in surface and subsurface
    • On the 2nd floor of Ritchie where the tours go through, lots of foot traffic
  • First floor: 
    • Stratigraphy of the Paleozoic period – oil/gas, waste product disposal, resource issues, net zero carbon
    • Seismic lines on side panels (left), well logs (right)
    • Outside the Ritchie Auditorium (RITCHIE 164)