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Wendy Ross made the steel spheres in front of EOU's new science center. (The Observer/PHIL BULLOCK).

Visiting artist Wendy Ross — who made the three steel spheres in the courtyard by the main entrance — will attend the grand opening of the science center at Eastern Oregon University.

Ross will give a slide show and talk on her work at 2 p.m. Friday Oct. 15 in Huber Auditorium, and lead an open critique session of student artwork in the Badgley gallery.

The grand opening will be at 9 a.m. Saturday Oct. 16.

In the Jan/Feb. 2002 issue of sculpture magazine, Roger Boyce described her this way:

"Wendy Ross received her master's from the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently in the Washington, D.C., metro area. One of her day jobs on her way to being a full-time sculptor was a position with the National Park Service, conceiving a master plan for a regional art park, an experience that contributed to skills she now regularly employs as a sought-after public sculptor.

"With an enviable group of commissions to her name, including a horizontal 100-foot work facing Boston Harbor on the Grand Staircase of the Boston World Trade Center, ... completed in the fall of 2002, Ross is hitting her stride after 25 years of dedicated studio

practice.

"Ross has exhibited in institutions and public settings as far-flung and disparate as the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, N.Y., The Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco, Calif., and Saipan in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands.

"Ross's solo exhibition, "A Garden of Unearthly Delights," (was) on view at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Mass. ... Her design for a commemorative sculpture of founding father George Mason, on the National Mall in Washington, was described by J. Carter Brown, former director of the National Gallery of Art, as one of the best pieces of public sculpture he had reviewed in his 30 years as chairman of the Fine Arts Commission."