RALEIGH/RTP Location Education Building, 301 N. Wilmington Street, Halifax Street Mall, formerly the Government Mall, Exterior West Wall Artist Vernon Pratt with writer Georgann Eubanks as research assistant Biography Pratt is a North Carolina native who received BFA and MFA degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute before joining Duke University in 1964 to teach in the Department of Art and Art History. He has taught at Duke since that time and has been recognized by the students for his influential teaching style. His paintings have been exhibited nationally and in Europe. Georgann Eubanks assisted with the research, selection and composition of the elements represented on the Wall. Eubanks is an author of fiction, poetry, reviews and essays. She teaches in the Duke University Continuing Education Short Course Program and is Director of the Duke Writers' Workshop. She has been active in writers in the schools programs. Title, date The Education Wall, 1992 Artwork, media Mural and benches, sandblasted granites, monument color

Project Description Ideas elemental to education comprise the surface of the exterior west wall on government mall. Sandblasted into the granite wall of the building are quotations about education from North Carolina writers, artists, statesmen and educators. The focus of the mural is the learning process, which is also evident in the benches, etched with information associated with the quotations on the wall. Pre-selection panel John Biggers, artist and Professor Emeritus at Texas Southern University in Houston; David Finn, artist and visiting assistant professor at Wake Forest University; Jane Kessler, independent curator; Kay Oney, principal user, and Larry Robbs, architect. Also participating in the development of the project were the following representatives of the Department of Public Instruction: Reeves McGlohan, Richard Clontz and Linda McCulloch.