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A student presentation of public art at the end of the fall quarter included String Rain, string art extending from downspouts at Freeborn Hall. Robin Hill, associate professor of art, directed the project -- called Where Here Is.

Elsewhere on campus, students presented A Room With a View, a camera obscura in the arboretum; Common Ground, a giant nest on the Quad; Rudd's Rat Lab, an art exhibition in an abandoned space in Kerr Hall; and A Face to a Place.

The latter work involved a performance art element, as three students brought some campus luminaries back to life. They included Stanley Freeborn, the university's first provost and chancellor, depicted by a student in a plaster mask (pictured), in front of Freeborn's namesake hall.

Wearing the mask is Ryan Bulis, a fourth-year art studio major, as Anna Ng, a fourth-year landscape architecture major, takes a Polaroid picture of "Freeborn" and an unidentified passer-by in front .

Bulis, Ng and Serena Monts, a fourth-year major in art studio and American studies, crafted four masks: Freeborn, Peter J. Shields (Shields Library), Samuel Henry Cowell (Cowell Student Health Center) and Emil Mrak (Mrak Hall).

Bulis donned the masks and posed for photos at each building.