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The Purdue Graduate Student Government with support from the UVAC is now sponsoring the Annual Print and Poster Exchange. This program provides Purdue faculty, staff, and graduate staff members the opportunity to borrow from the over 3000 framed posters. The collection also includes an additional 3000 unframed prints. (1/3 of the over 6000 total prints in the Collection is currently decorating many walls across the Purdue University campus!).
The artwork is loaned for a period of 12 to 36 months, after which time it is returned and may be exchanged for different pieces. Donations are always welcome and go straight to the cost for framing additional prints.
Art posters are also installed in various locations around campus, including foyers, hallways, and laboratories.
If you need to return a poster early because you can't make the exchange or if the poster is damaged, send email to olinger@purdue.edu.
The 2017 Visual Arts Lending Collection Annual Print & Poster Exchange
Location
Purdue Graduate Student Center
504 Northwestern Ave
West Lafayette, IN 47906
Dates
Exchange Day 1 — Thursday, August 10
- 11:00am - 1:00pm, open for donors only
- 1:00pm - 5:00pm, open for all
Exchange Day 2 — Friday, August 11
- 11:00am - 3:00pm, open for all
Exchange FAQ
Who can participate?
The Poster Exchange is open to all faculty, staff, and grad student staff who have previously participated in the Exchange, who wish to donate to the program.
How do I donate to the Poster Exchange?
Donations to the Lending collection can be made at the door and through payroll deduction. All donors will be entered in a drawing to win an Engineering Fountain original print, donated by Purdue's own Julie Correll.
How will my donation be used?
All donations go directly to the cost of framing additional prints for the collection.
Where can I hang my borrowed poster?
Lending collection pictures are to be hung on campus in offices, conference rooms and reception areas with borrowing limited to Purdue staff and faculty.
When should I trade a picture I borrowed?
We ask that you return or exchange any posters that have been checked out for three or more years. Posters can be exchanged annually if you choose.
What if I forget?
Emails will be sent out each year reminding program participants what they have borrowed and when it should be returned or exchanged.
What if I move to a different department or leave the university?
If you have borrowed posters and have moved to a different area, please let us know where the prints are and who is responsible for them.
Mid-year Participation Option Is Available
Well, this option takes money! But you get exactly what you want.
If an office wishes to spend money (usually around $150 per poster), Tricia Olinger will meet with them to select the posters of choice.When the posters arrive mats are selected, frames are ordered, and when everything is assembled they are delivered ready to hang. (A pretty great service!)
This method allows an area to obtain posters that are selected to co-ordinate with wall coloring and furnishings, as well as being sized to fit a particular area. While these posters "officially" are part of the Lending Collection, the selecting department is permitted to retain them for extended periods.
However, upon retirement from the department, the posters are returned to the Collection and begin to circulate with the next Poster Exchange.
How it happens...
- Contact Tricia Olinger - olinger@purdue.edu
- Select poster(s) from catalog Tricia provides
- Transfer funding to PGSG (departments usually use money in "gift" fund)
- Tricia orders posters
- Choose matting after poster(s) arrive
- Tricia orders frames/plexi/etc
- Delivery of framed poster(s) to your office
- Enjoy!
Money Saving Mid-year Participation Option
Using this method, a department would select from matted prints already part of the collection, but not yet framed. (The UVAC does not have enough funding to frame the complete collection.) At a cost of $100 per print, an area could have art on the wall within 30 days. WOW!
If you are interested, contact Tricia Olinger at olinger@purdue.edu.
Print Poster Exchange History
2015 Report - Exchange Suspended
2014 Report - Exchange Suspended
2013 Report - Exchange Suspended
2012 Exchange Report - October 8 and 9
- 812 posters traded
- 2 "past due" pictures are to be reclaimed before Exchange
- 12 posters were retired due to age
- 8 "missing" posters were returned
2011 Exchange Report - October 10 and 11
- 780 posters traded
- 6 "past due" pictures are to be reclaimed after the Exchange
- 21 posters were retired due to age
- 5 "missing" posters were returned
2010 Exchange Report - October 12 and 13
- 784 posters traded
- 19 "past due" pictures are to be reclaimed after the Exchange
- 10 posters were retired due to age
- 4 "missing" posters were returned
2009 Exchange Report - October 12 and 13
- 710 posters traded
- 28 past due pictures were reclaimed after the Exchange
- 22 posters were retired due to age
- 7 "missing" posters were returned
2008 Exchange Report - October 13 and 14
- 804 posters traded
- 39 past due pictures were reclaimed after the Exchange
- 12 posters were retired due to age
- 9 "missing" posters were returned
2007 Exchange Report - October 9 and 10
- 709 posters traded
- 42 past due pictures were reclaimed after the Exchange
- 4 posters were retired due to age
- 3 "missing" posters were returned
2006 Exchange Report - October 10 and 11
- 565 posters traded - a rainy two days
- 12 posters were retired due to age
- 6 posters were retired due to damage
- 7 "missing" posters were returned
2005 Exchange Report - November 15, 16, 17
- 656 posters traded
- 27 posters were retired due to age
- 5 "missing" posters were returned
2004 Exchange Report - October 8, 11 and 12
Video | More Information on the 2004 Poster Exchange.
- 635 posters traded
- 7 posters were retired due to age
- 0 "missing" posters were returned
- 1 new office areas were furnished for the first time
2003 Exchange Report - October 10, 12 and 13
- 553 posters traded
- 15 posters were retired due to age
- 6 "missing" posters were returned
- 2 new office areas were furnished for the first time
2002 Exchange Report
- 506 posters traded
- 78 posters were retired due to age
- 3 "missing" posters were returned
- 105 new posters went on display
- 1 faculty lounge was furnished for the first time
- 1 dean's area was furnished for the first time
2001 Exchange Report - September 19, 20, and 21
- 465 posters were traded at this year's poster exchange
- 33 posters were retired due to age or damage
- 5 posters that had been marked "missing" were returned
- 58 people participated for the first time
- 2 conference rooms were furnished for the first time
- 1 reception area selected a triptych