The Indiana University East campus lends itself well to outdoor sculptures.

That’s because open spaces allow the works to be big, to make big statements, whether seeing them up close or from afar.

The rolling hills and plentiful trees accent the pieces with changing colors around the four seasons.

Students, visitors and university employees have a new group of works to see over the next two years as they walk around campus, juried works that were carefully selected for the 2022 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition.

The pieces present different angles as they are discovered and rediscovered while traveling to and from buildings, said Carrie Longley, associate professor of fine arts and director of the Art Gallery. “I hope our campus visitors will appreciate the variety of expressions and accents of color, texture, and form balanced within the beautiful natural setting of our campus.”

Longley, Ann Kim and Nathan Kuznia were jurors for the show, which drew more than 100 entries from artists across the United States. Kim is associate professor of fine arts and Kuznia is studio and gallery coordinator at IU East.

Eight new pieces were anchored onto pads in the weeks before the fall semester started.