About 20 Valparaiso students hand-delivered letters to University President Jose Padilla Wednesday afternoon to express their displeasure with the university’s plan to sell three paintings from the campus art museum to pay for dorm renovations.
Valparaiso University student Ashley Vernon gives instructions to fellow students and faculty as they gather to voice displeasure of the university's planned sale of artwork from the Brauer Museum of Art on Wednesday, February 15, 2023.
Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Rust Red Hills” seen through Richard Hunt’s stainless steel “Becoming” at the Brauer Museum of Art on the Valparaiso University campus in Valparaiso, Indiana Friday February 10, 2023. Campus and community members continue to react to announcement of the pending sale of O’Keeffe’s and two other works to fund first-year student dorm renovations.
The board and administration are prepared to consider assets and resources that are not core or critical to the educational mission or strategic plan to achieve these goals, he wrote. Students and faculty gathered to deliver letters to president Jose Padilla to voice displeasure in the school's decision to sell art from the Brauer Museum of Art on Wednesday, February 15, 2023.
Valparaiso University students pen letters to school president Jose Padilla as students and faculty gather to voice displeasure of the university's planned sale of artwork from the Brauer Museum of Art on Wednesday, February 15, 2023. Freshman global studies major Joseph D’Acquisto said the majority of the student body he’s spoken with don’t think the renovations are necessary.
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