Professor leads campus art and architecture tour

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Ted Johnson, a professor of French and humanities, will lead his annual Stop Day tour of campus, which he has conducted since the early 1990s. Johnson said the campus offered wonders in art and architecture that some might overlook.

“Over the years in my different French classes and humanity classes, I used campus as part of my teaching,” Johnson said. “They had a chance to talk about real works and real space, and the kids loved it.”

Johnson said the free walking tour was a way to experience how the campus interrelated with art and culture.

The tour will begin tomorrow at 9 a.m. in front of the Natural History Museum, located just to the south of the Kansas Union on Jayhawk Boulevard.

— — Edited by Sarah Bluvas

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