Odita discusses his mural, 'Up and Away'
www.princeton.edu...An explosion of color greets students at the main entrance to Butler College's new dormitories, where a mural of bright fractal shapes spans two floors and seven walls. /n"Up and Away," the work of Odili Donald Odita, associate professor of fine art at Temple University's Tyler School of Art, was commissioned by the steering committee for Princeton's public art initiative. /n"Odili is an artist of remarkable sensitivity to space, architecture and light," said James Steward, director of the Princeton University Art Museum, who co-chairs the committee with University Architect Ron McCoy. "It has been exciting to see him responding to new architecture that honors Princeton's past and yet is of the present moment, and to Butler College as a place in which living and learning merge."

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