La Vida - Santa Cruz, CA - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

La Vida is a sculpture on the UC, Santa Cruz campus in Santa Cruz, California. The sculpture consists of three concrete cylinder columns about three feet high, each with a different bronze sculpture on top. On one column there are two groups of bronzed dancing figures holding hands in a circle. Some of the original dancing figure are now missing, as only their shoes or mounting remain to be seen on the cylinder base. The other two cylinders have more sturdy, bronze hemisperical sculptures with bas-reliefs of nude figures.

A plaque on the base of one of the second two cylinders reads:

	LA VIDA THIS SCULPTURE IS DEDICATED TO THE STUDENTS OF MERRILL COLLEGE THE ARTIST, ROBERTO CASTRO, WOULD LIKE TO THANK

BARNEY FLAGER DOYLE FOREMAN JOHN ISBISTER ZIESEL KIMURA

JENNIFER PERCY AGUSTIN PONCE STEPHEN RUDZINSKI JOANN SMILEY

	1991

TITLE: La Vida ARTIST(S): Roberto Castro, sculptor DATE: 1991 MEDIUM: Sculpture: bronze; Base: concrete CONTROL NUMBER: IAS CA000776 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: In a driveway roundabout at the entrance to Merrill College on the University of California, Santa Cruz campus, Santa Cruz, California DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: One of the cylinders appears to have missing (broken off) dancing figures, as only some feet or mountings remain

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