Students side-by-side collaborating tells the story of a century of – and its future. As part of the college’s centennial celebration, IVCC President Tracy Morris the mural on Tuesday after four months of production. Morris said the mural represents the colleges past as LPO ( - - ) Junior College, which was housed at La Salle-Peru High School when it opened in 1924.
The artwork was paid for by the IVCC Foundation. In the mural, La Salle-Peru High School settles in the sepia (vintage) background of the former students working over a typewriter transitioning in a purple silver haze into future students working over laptops in front of the current IVCC building. The finished mural painted by Westclox Studios Ray Paseka and his assistants Morgan Phillips and Emily Mays, both IVCC alumnae, is meant to serve as a reminder of what the college has meant to the community in the past, what it is in the present, and what it will be in the future.
“The concept of folks on a typewriter and on a computer, those are both mediums for transmitting ideas,” Paseka said. “And the concept hit me very quickly that if I had them having a brainstorm or an explosion of ideas.” “The thinking from the past,” he said.
“Is just as valid as thinking contemporary.” Paseka said he wanted a contemporary approach to the concept of the mural and he looked at the textures and the wall colors in the college prior. “I started browsing imagery,” Paseka said.
“And the idea hit me. That I c.