Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont

Stainless Steel/Black Granite

10’x5’x5’x8”

2014

Audeamus" is a Latin word meaning "we dare, may we venture, may we risk."

A commission for Champlain College, the 10-foot tall, stainless steel Audeamus expresses the artist's idea of critical thinking made possible by dialogue, discussion and discourse with an underlying concept of boldness in education.

Curtis achieved this by creating two abstract figures engaged in conversation, vague enough to invite interpretation, but explicit enough to be decodable by viewers.

The sculpture is located on the newly named Finney Quad, a collection of buildings on the northeast corner of Maple and South Willard Streets in Burlington, Vermont. The naming of the Quad and the sculpture is in honor of former Champlain College President David F. Finney.