The Dog Days of Summer community art project is designed to delight
animal and art enthusiasts of all ages. This sculpture exhibit
builds upon the tremendous success of the previous public art
projects, Hog Wild in 2003, and Frog Follies in 2005.
Dog
Days of Summer is co-presented by the Art Museum of Greater
Lafayette and the School of Veterinary Medicine at Purdue University.
These dog sculptures provide the perfect opportunity to celebrate
the School of Veterinary Medicine’s 50th anniversary and
the Art Museum’s 100th anniversary.
This public art project also builds upon the School of Veterinary
Medicine’s outdoor sculpture “Continuum,” by
Larry Anderson, which features a dog as part of its array of people
and animals in a depiction of the enduring human-animal bond.
Through the Dog Days of Summer project, the painted dog sculptures
placed around Purdue University, Lafayette and West Lafayette,
and potentially other locations in the state, will further highlight
the role which animals play in the important intersections between
animals and people, and art and science.
Various
contests and dog related events are planned as part of Dog Days
of Summer and will run from spring of 2009 thru fall of 2009.
Many of the dogs will be auctioned off at the Gala Auction on
October 4, 2009.
All
proceeds benefit the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette and the
Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine 50th Anniversary
Scholarship Fund and the Good Samaritan Fund.
Dog
Days of Summer Auction - a
Celebratory Canine Caper!
Join
us for a howling good time as the dogs find their new
homes!
View
all of the dogs together for the last time and bid for
your favorites.
Sunday,
October 4*
Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine,
Lynn Hall
625 Harrison Street, West
Lafayette
- 1:30 p.m. Champagne Reception and music by the
Purdue Beat Society
- 2:30 p.m. Auction, Awards, and Acknowledgements
- $25.00 per person
RSVP by Monday, September 21. Seating is limited,
so call the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette
at 765-742-1128 to reserve
your place.
To preview the dogs for sale, click
here to access the auction site. You can also enter
your reserve bid
by registering in advance;
to bid online you must register by 1 p.m. the day of the
auction. Bids will be
held until the day of
the auction; however, early registration is encouraged.
The auction will also be
telecast live via the
auction site, so you can bid from your own home or office
if you can't attend in
person.
*Four
of the dogs being auctioned are specially designated to
benefit only one of the two organizations. Doggie Doodle
and Hunter
will wholly support the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette
and will remain a part of the October 4, 2009
Dog Days Auction
to be held at Lynn Hall. Cow Dog and University Lab will
exclusively support the School of Veterinary
Medicine
(SVM) and therefore
will be auctioned separately at the 2009 SVM Annual Fall
Auction on September 25, 2009,
also to be
held in Lynn Hall. Both auctions can be viewed online
and are open to your participation. If you have questions
about online
bidding,
please contact Carol
Willoughby at 765-494-0791.
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Vote
for Your Favorite Dog!
A
prize will be given to the artist who created the
"community favorite" dog.
To vote, send an e-mail to dogdaysfavorite@gmail.com
with the title (and artist, if possible) of your favorite
dog.
Only
one vote per e-mail address;
we will disqualify anyone who votes more than once.
Voting
ends August 31, 2009. |
For an electronic map/brochure,
noting the locations of all of the dogs,*
please click here.
Print map/brochures are also available at various downtown Lafayette
businesses and at the following locations:
Art Museum of Greater Lafayette
102 South Tenth Street,
Lafayette
Purdue University School of Veterinary
Medicine
Lynn Hall, 625 Harrison
Street, West Lafayette
Lafayette-West Lafayette Convention
& Visitors Bureau
301 Frontage Road, Lafayette
Purdue University Visitor Information
Center
504 Northwestern Avenue,
West Lafayette
*
Due to theft and vandalism, all of the dogs have been relocated
to indoor locations. The dogs that were originally located on
the Purdue University campus have been relocated inside buildings
on the Purdue campus. The new, indoor locations are generally
right next to where the dogs were originally located outside.
Click here to access the supplementary map showing the new locations
for the dogs on the Purdue campus. Supplementary maps showing
the new indoor locations can also be found at the Art Museum
and at the School of Veterinary Medicine at Purdue.
The rest
of the dogs from both Lafayette and West Lafayette have been
relocated to inside buildings. Most of them can be seen in business
windows in downtown Lafayette; some are at the Art Museum, and
others are at West Lafayette businesses. The relocated dogs
can be viewed in the following windows and lobbies:
"A
Walk With Buddy," "Yes We K9," "Centennial
Dog," "Skye Enchanted," and "Tippe Lab"
can be viewed at the Art Museum, 102 South 10th Street.
"Vincent
Van Dog" can be viewed at Henriott Group, 8 North 3rd Street.
"Hunter,"
"Good Ole Spot, K-9th Pets of 9th Street" and "Salvador
Dawgi" can be viewed at Legal Aid, 212 North 5th Street.
"Dog
Tagged" and "Pluto" can be viewed at 514 Main
Street.
"Noah"
and "Cow Dog" can be viewed at McCord Candies, 536
Main Street.
"Rosie
T Mayor" and "Day of the Dogs" can be viewed
at City Hall Mayor’s Office/2nd floor, 20 North 6th Street.
"Greener
Than a Junkyard Dog" can be viewed at Regions Bank, 437
South Street.
"Sir
Barksalot" can be viewed at Lafayette Bank & Trust,
250 Main Street.
"Seein
Eye Dog" can be viewed at MetLife Home Loans, 415 Columbia
Street.
"Newshound"
can be viewed at the Journal & Courier, 217 N. 6th Street.
"Spot
the Art Dog" can be viewed at the Lafayette-West Lafayette
Convention and Visitors Bureau, 301 Frontage Road.
"Dog
Eat Dog" can be viewed at the West Lafayette Library, 208
W. Columbia.
"Paisley
Pup" can be viewed at the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel, located
at Wabash Landing.
"Sirius
Stargazer" can be viewed at Westwood, 500 McCormick Road.
A few
dogs are still being repaired and will be replaced as soon as
possible. For the most up-to-date information, please contact
the Art Museum.
We wag
our tails in greatful appreciation to our sponsors:
Happy
Hounds
Art Museum of
Greater Lafayette and the Art League
Deborah Breitstein, DVM
City of Lafayette
Henriott Group
Sheila and Vic
Klinker
Lilly Tippecanoe
Labs
Purdue University
School of Veterinary Medicine Faculty, Staff and Students
Purdue University
Veterinary Teaching Hospital Grateful Clients and Lyn Freeman,
DVM
Spiris, Inc.
W.H. Long Companies
Paw Partners
Holder
and Fehrenbach
Indiana Farm
Bureau Insurance
Jones and Phillips Associates
Lafayette Bank
& Trust
Lafayette Life
Foundation
Lafayette Limo
Lafayette-West
Lafayette Convention & Visitors Bureau
Laird Therapy Dog Rescue
Old National
Bank for WBAA
Paw Prints
Purdue Employees
Federal Credit Union
Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine Class of 1964
Regions Bank
Tail
Waggers
City of West
Lafayette
MBAH Insurance
Larry McAfee, DVM
Round the Fountain
Art Fair
Stuart &
Branigin
Wal-Mart
Gifts-in-Kind
All Fired Up
Awards
Unlimited
DeFouw
Chevrolet
Fairfield Contractors, Inc.
Haywood Printing
Journal
& Courier
Lausch Photography
Lowe's Home Improvement
Muinzer Moving & Storage/United Van Lines
Purdue Beat Society
Purdy Concrete
Rock-n-Roll Alley Custom Tee's
Sovereign Catering & Events
Uniquely Yours Pottery
& Glass
