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Walsh University to Reveal Community Art Project Focused on Commuter Students

The university will reveal "All Roads Lead to Walsh" at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Walsh David Center

Walsh University will tip its hat to commuter students this week when it unveils a community art project that was designed with commuter students in mind.

The university will reveal the first in a series of community art projects on campus designed and directed by adjunct art professor Diane Belfiglio at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Walsh David Center. The unveiling ceremony of “All Roads Lead to Walsh” will include remarks by Belfiglio and Walsh President Richard Jusseaume.

All Roads Lead to Walsh is the first in a series of community art projects intended to make the art-making process accessible to all students, everywhere, on campus.  

"The commuter art project, 'All Roads Lead to Walsh,' is truly historic because it is the first permanent art installation on Walsh University's campus," Belfiglio said. "What makes it even more exciting is that it was done in pieces as a community, proving that there's nothing we can't do when we work together."  

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Students can participate in these projects on whatever level they were willing, and in doing so become a part of a creation that's bigger than what anyone can accomplish individually.

Jusseaume envisioned the first of these community art projects to focus on commuter students. Belfiglio created the initial concept, design and color system for this piece. She then directed Walsh commuter students as they worked together painting, gluing, assembling and signing each individual mini-canvas.  

Thus, every participant became an integral part of the whole, and every person who interacts with this piece also becomes a part of that whole. And so it is in the spirit of cooperation and community that Walsh can attest: All Roads Lead to Walsh.

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"We are truly blessed to have a commitment from President Jusseaume to continue these installations on campus so that even more members of our community who are not artists can experience being part of an art project," Belfiglio said. "My enthusiasm for directing these community art projects is boundless."  


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