Graduate students from Georgia Bizios’ and Paul Tesar’s Advanced Architectural Design (ARC503) classes traveled to Bynum, NC to visit
Clyde Jones, the nationally known folk/outsider artist. Jones has been making his critters since 1982, and has had his work exhibited at many galleries both locally and nationally, including the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Jones gave the students two alligator critters he made with their help. The critters took up residence in the wood shop on their arrival at the College of Design,
but students approached the Design Library to request that the critters be able to have a permanent home there; expressing a desire for them to have “more intellectual surroundings.” The Design Library staff was delighted to have them.
Since space is limited in the library, the critters were placed on top of the stacks where they cast a benevolent eye on the students and faculty researching below.
