Art in the Garden

Olympia artist David Scherer Water will be holding an art workshop in the SMU garden next Tuesday, July 19 from 1:30-3:30pm.

Join the Anthropology of New Urbanism class and help make beautiful garden art out of found and recycled objects.


Please seek out and bring any plastic, metal or non-food lightweight junk you may find, acquire from housemates, family. Broken toys are great.

David Scherer Water enjoys making things out of junk. He's the artist responsible for "The Flat Win Company" which sells neatly packaged found materials back to people. Products include empty beer cans, burnt toast, twigs and small bags of gravel. David got his first "big break" as a visual artist when he was given permission to decorate the lobby and halls of a small apartment complex in downtown Olympia, The Martin Building.

More Color!

Lately, colors of paint cans have been stacking up high in the garden shed and the garden is doubling as a mini art studio

Last week, Bridge students stopped by and helped us paint the bird houses that SMU writing specialist Cholee Gladney and music professor Brad Schrandt built for the garden fence

students Amanda and Rosemary painted demo houses before the Bridge students arrived

Turns out we have a crop of creative and helpful students this year

They got right to work and did an inspired job. Welcome to campus!

Garden Celebration and Blessing

See this article about the celebration in the Olympian.

Abbot Neal blesses the garden with holy water

President Heynderickx speaks

We eat a delicious cake made by Bon Appétit

Prof. Shawn Newman leads a ukulele sing along

Enjoying the garden

Watching it grow

We add our own wishes and blessings to the garden wall

Art in the Garden

Artist Bill Wilson donates his metal sculpture to our garden! You can also check out Wilson's work at the Monarch Sculpture Garden.

Ideas for Deer Fences

In preparation for the installation of our garden, and the deer that share the campus with us, the Sustainability committee has been exploring possible fences. Here are a few of the possibilities... What do you think? Keep the ideas coming.