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Others had similar impressions of the fridge, even incorporating it into teaching moments. I'm surprised and pleased that no one has pitched it out, must be proof of its endearing qualities.' After it had been up a year-or-so, I personally purchased it from Nick and donated it to the Libraries. We began answering the question, 'Where's the pencil sharpener?' with, 'In the fridge.' The initial installation was intended to be brief, but everyone (even trustees passing by on the way to meetings) seemed to enjoy the piece, so we left it for quite a while. 'The fridge appeared and we were all delighted. He asked me if he could do an installation in the library as part of his studio productivity and I agreed,' recalled former Fine Arts Librarian, Henry Pisciotta. 'Nick had been doing works related to recycling and reuse, mostly sculptural installations. Soon it was known that the iconic refrigerator was an ambitious art project of a former CMU student in the early 1990s: Nicholas Madjerick, 1993 graduate of the College of Fine Arts. We began by asking the above questions to the people who've worked in Hunt Library the longest, eventually acquiring a few leads from several retired librarians. Where did it come from? Why is it here? What's with the pencil sharpener?Īdding to the mystique is the fact that those who knew its origin story have all either retired or left the Libraries.

Perhaps you've developed theories of your own or have pondered its perplexing presence in the library. The lore of the 'fourth floor fridge' has grown recently, you may have heard that the mysterious art piece once belonged to Andy Warhol. For over thirty years, a classic refrigerator from the 1950s has baffled, amused, and intrigued visitors to Hunt Library.

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