MCAOM Graduates Donate Chinese Artwork to Northwestern
Posted on Oct. 14, 2005
This fall, the August 2005 graduates of the Minnesota College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine donated a work of art to Northwestern Health Sciences University. The artwork is a wooden sculpture carved with Chinese symbols, many of them meaning “good luck.” All of the graduates contributed money to buy the artwork; the last class to donate artwork to the University was the class of 2003. That donation was a Chinese scroll, which is on display in the corridor south of the courtyard.
“Our class liked the idea of an art donation and we knew it could be done since the class of 2003 had previously done so,” says MCAOM alumna Susan Gillett, LAc. “We as a class felt there should be more Chinese art on campus to represent the Chinese culture.”
Mark McKenzie, LAc, MaOM, dean of MCAOM, says he hopes to create an area on campus where the sculpture and other Chinese art can be displayed.