Western Washington University Public Sculpture Collection

The Western Washington University Outdoor Sculpture Collection is a public sculpture collection founded in 1960. The collection contains thirty-six public sculptures spanning 190 acres of the Western Washington University campus.
History.
In 1957, the board of trustees of Western Washington University established a policy that encouraged public art on the campus. The first work added to the collection, commissioned by Paul Thiry, was James Fitzgerald's Rain Forest, in 1960.
Campus architect Ibsen Nelsen commissioned Isamu Noguchi's "Skyviewing Sculpture" in the 1960s.
Funding for the acquisition of the works in the collection came from a combination of sources that included the state's one percent for art law, The Virginia Wright Fund, and the National Endowment for the Arts
The collection is overseen by the director of the university's Western Art Gallery. As of 2015, the director of the collection is Hafþór Yngvason.