Happy Friday Tritons and #FutureTritons! ⁠ ⁠ Today we recognize, the notable #SunGod ☀️⁠ ⁠ The artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) is best known for her oversized figures that embrace contradictory qualities such as good and evil, modern and primitive, sacred and profane, play and terror. ⁠ ⁠ De Saint Phalle's Sun God was the first work commissioned by the Stuart Collection and was her first outdoor commission in America. The exuberantly colored, fourteen-foot bird is placed atop a fifteen-foot concrete arch and sited on a grassy area between the Faculty Club and Mandeville Auditorium.⁠ ⁠ The students started the Sun God Festival in 1984. It has become one of the largest annual campus events.⁠ ⁠ Click link in bio to learn more about the unique selection of campus art pieces in the Stuart Collection.