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...floor atrium of the Healey Library. The lyric piece was loaned to UMass by the Fleet Financial Corporation before being sold a year later. The last series of installations is a group of 10 fantasy coffins from Ghana, on loan from the west Los Angeles gallery of Ernie Wolfe (Tucker's college roommate.) The coffins are an integral part of burial rites practiced by the Ga and other coastal Ghana communities...
...like the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association, the Boston Harbor Association, the Massachusetts State Archives, Boston College High School, the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Art, among others. Opening the lines of communication has spurred Arts on the Point back into action, as Tucker enthusiastically plans the installation of five new pieces: Tony Smith's infamous "Stinger," Ursula von Rydingsvard's cedar "Large Bowl with Mechanic," Gillian Jagger's "Resurrection," Willem DeKooning's "Reclining Figure" and Dennis Oppenheim's "Searchburst." He is financially fully committed to all the pieces and hopes to make installation...
Such an advancement would inch Tucker towards his dream of enhancing UMass's environment while providing an educational opportunity to the greater Boston community. The artwork adds a humanistic element to the bland, monochromatic buildings of the UMass campus. More importantly, Arts on the Point seeks to bring challenging art to a population that might not otherwise encounter it. "I'm excited to be a part of a project that would place major works of contemporary sculpture in a very public setting where the population, by and large, would not ordinarily be exposed to it," says Gould. She recognizes that...
...Landivar. Christine Aller, a passing art major, comments that "Huru" is her favorite piece, though she doesn't necessarily like all the works that have been installed. Nevertheless, Aller holds that the artwork "makes the campus more attractive by adding to the gross stone and brick." The ever-quixotic Tucker insists that exposure and familiarity are essential to art appreciation, even if it means challenging people and stepping on some toes: "All novel art has always been challenging," he says. "We're the only public university in the Athens of America-if we can't shoulder public art education, then...
...professor recounts a classic tale of education-to-appreciation, involving the electricians who installed "Huru"'s spotlights. Originally frustrated by their laborious work over a "hunk of metal," the electricians, under Tucker's passionate tutelage, came to love the piece. "By the end of the night, one of the workers thought this was the coolest thing on campus," recalls Tucker. "He went into his truck to get his camera, and spent an entire roll of film on ['Huru']." Not surprisingly, the groundskeepers of UMass Boston have had some of the most profound exposure to the artwork and to Tucker...