Dora Natella - IUSB
Project: Euterpe's Gift
Year: 2024
Description: Indiana University South Bend’s campus boasts a rich public art collection. Euterpe's Gift, is one of a number of sculptures by Dora Natella a well-known artist and IUSB professor. In 2024, the university hired BPS to provide much needed maintenance and restoration work on multiple outdoor sculptures. The skin on the bronze figure of Euterpe was particularly stained, and had a significant amount of lime scale.
BPS Role: Cleaning, Hot waxing, Cold Waxing, Hand buffing
Before maintenance
From left to right: before maintenance, after application of hot and cold wax, during the buffing process, after maintenance
After maintenance
After maintenance
From left to right: before maintenance, after application of hot and cold wax, after maintenance