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Name of Structure: Jacob's Yard

Other Names: The Millennium Sculpture Garden

Location: Below the <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Harriet%20Irving%20Library">Harriet Irving Library</a>

Date Unveiled: N/A

Artist/Creator: Various

Named for: Edwin Jacob, president of King's College

Event/Occasion/Significance: Combines artistic creativity and excellence with landscape renewal, linking past and present societies and establishing a space of unity and interdisciplinary enrichment.

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Notes: Jacob's Yard is an outdoor gathering place in which visitors and residents of UNB can observe site-specific artworks by New Brunswick sculptors. The project was begun in [2000?] by Marie Maltais after she received a grant from the province to create a place to gather outdoors. "((unbarchivesandspecialcollections/La Response du Cheval|La Reponse du Cheval]] by Jacques Martin, was installed and unveiled in 2003. <a href="The%20Art%20of%20Conversation%20Reader%27s%20Bench">The Art of Conversation Reader's Bench</a>, unveiled in 2004, was funded by the graduating class of 2004 to honour Dr. Peter C. Kent and his contributions to the university on the occasion of his retirement. The <a href="Poets%27%20Corner">Poets' Corner</a> was also refurbished and was moved to a place of prominence within the yard in November 2012. One key objective of the project was to create a place where past and present society, and culture interweaves through a diversity of art and architecture.

Source(s):

• UA Case 121.

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