WINSTON-SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY, WINSTON-SALEM Campus information: (910) 750-2000 In addition to its one AWSB project, the university has an outdoor sculpture collection and major murals by James and John Biggers. Location O'Kelly Library and Cleon F. Thompson Student Services Building, Exterior connecting walkway Artist Dennis Peacock Biography This sculptor and art professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville has exhibited his work in many one-person and group exhibitions. He received a master of fine arts degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa. Peacock has completed many commissions in Tennessee, including works for the Tullahoma Fine Arts Center, Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company in Chattanooga and the Tennessee Welcome Center in Ardmore. Title, date (Other) Voices, 1996 Artwork, media Sculpture, steel

Project Description This large, abstract steel sculpture stands in the walkway between the O'Kelly Library and the Cleon F. Thompson Student Services building. The work, composed of three vertical curved forms, is inspired by a poem by South African poet Arthur Nortje. This poem addresses the idea of crossroads -- the site where the sculpture stands serves as a crossroads for students because of its central location on campus. Symbolically, the sculpture represents the role education plays in creating crossroads in a student's life. Pre-selection panel Dr. Francine Giles Madrey, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, WSSU; Dr. Mae Rodney, Director, O'Kelly Library, WSSU; Kevin Montgomery, architect, O'Brien/Atkins Asso.; Darrel Williams, architect, Gantt Huberman Architects; Arcenia Davis, assistant professor, Art Department, WSSU; Mitzi Shewmake, artist; Juan Logan, artist. Ex-officio: Wilma Lassiter, WSSU trustee, Gordon Hanes, board member, Diggs Gallery.