Stuart Collection, University of California San Diego
The Stuart Collection seeks to enrich the cultural, intellectual, and scholarly life of the University of California San Diego campus and of the San Diego community by building and maintaining a unique collection of site-specific works by leading artists of our time. Under an agreement forged in 1982 (and renewed in 2003), the entire campus may be considered as sites for commissioned sculpture. With the enthusiastic cooperation and financial support from the Stuart Foundation, the Friends of the Stuart Collection, the National Endowment for the Arts, and many other organizations, foundations and individuals, the collection has initiated and completed an impressive range of projects. Many of the artists who have designed works for the collection are associated with movements or attitudes which are seldom represented in public sculpture collections. A significant number of the artists have been better known for their work in other areas before creating their first permanent outdoor sculpture for the Stuart Collection.
