[402]“PAPER REWIND” CREATURES TO INHABIT LIBRARY THROUGH MAY 7

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 18, 2008EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081

“PAPER REWIND” CREATURES TO INHABIT LIBRARY THROUGH MAY 7
Ecology Emphasized Through Art as Students Embark on End-of-Semester Studying

(MURFREESBORO) – The James E. Walker Library and the MTSU Department of Art are joining forces again this year to raise student awareness of paper usage through an imaginative project that will be on display in the waning days of the spring semester. The “Paper Rewind” project will be installed at the library from 12:40 p.m. to 3:40 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday, April 21, one day prior to the international celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and will remain in place through Wednesday, May 7. While students are studying for final exams and preparing research papers, they will be surrounded by paper animals, trees and people created by Professor Thomas Sturgill’s 3D design classes. In fact, students might find themselves sitting next to a paper person or look up to see a paper person sailing a paper airplane off the fourth floor balcony. Some of the paper creations will be recycling bins suitable for the collection of recyclable paper and suitable for disposal at the recycling site in their entirety. Each silhouette creation will guide students to a Web site that contains information about the amount of paper that is printed at the library. For example: The paper consumed by the library represents the equivalent of more than 700 trees;

All the used paper stretched end-to-end would extend for 1,100 miles;

If stacked, the paper would reach 2,100 feet into the air.

“Students are printing 6,500,000 copies a year from computer printers, and this art project is intended to raise awareness on the part of the students to conserve natural resources and think before they print,” says Bill Black, library professor in charge of administrative services. “Almost everything is a student design,” Sturgill says. “For the most part, it’s student-driven. The nice thing is it’s a foundations class. There are all different majors in it.” The collaborating student artists participating in the project are: Alicia Wilson, Allison Thomas, Ashleigh Mabry, Danielle Ross, Dwight Carter, Jenna Shapiro, Joe Depeder, Kim Dill, Lawrence Winston III, Michelle Pendergrass, Ryan Manous, Rich Adams, Robert Wilson, Rosemary Raford, Steve Hull, Mercedes Vinson, Arsany Sarofiem, Ben Harper, Brian Simpson, Christopher Beeson, Emily Roley, Eric Pavol, Kayla Shellman, Jen Reid, Leanne Grisham, Grant Eason, Rick Lemanski, Kyle Scudder, T.J. Smith and Yvan Joubay. The partnership between the library and the art department is coordinated by the Library External Relations Committee. For more information, go to http://www.paperrewind.com. For media interviews, contact Sturgill at 615-898-2460 or sturgill@mtsu.edu or Black at 615-898-8378 or wblack@mtsu.edu.
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