Chapel Hill Art Walk Multi-Cache

Chapel Hill Art Walk

Durham has Paint the Town, Raleigh has the The Neighborhood Sculpture Walk, and Cary has Cary Objets d'Art, so I thought it was time for Chapel Hill to have an art walk all its own.

This (gulp) 7-stage multi-cache will take you on a pleasant walk on the University of North Carolina campus and along Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. This cache tries to showcase some of the public art on display in downtown Chapel Hill.

Parking might be crazy during the school year and on weekends when there is a home basketball or football game.

As you take your art walk, the six coordinates provided will take you to various sculptures and murals around town. At each stop, you will need to gather information to find the final stage. The final stage can be found at:

N 35 54.ABC + .003
W079 03.DEF + .001

Stage 1: Begin your journey at the posted coordinates at the Sun Dial at the UNC Planetarium. This sun dial is also a benchmark and can be logged as well. There are a number of plaques at the base of the sun dial. Locate the plaque that lists the sun dial's height above sea level. F = the first digit in that number.
Stage 2: N35 54.803 W079 03.109 Stage 2 takes you to the Unsung Founders Memorial on the McCorkle Place lawn. This marble memorial was created by artist Do-Ho Suh and honors the men and women of color who helped build the University of North Carolina. It was installed on May 11, 2005. I won't make you count the 300 bronze figurines, but D = the second digit of the class who donated the sculpture.
Stage 3: N35 54.758 W079 03.221 You will now walk to the Alumni Sculpture Garden. Don't forget to pick up the nearby Will You Marry Me? cache as you pass by. This sculpture garden is home to a rotating set of sculptures. In this garden you used to visit The Horn by Jonathan Jacquet. It has been removed, so now you will visit a metal sculpture on the outside wall of the museum. B = the number of circles minus 1 of complete circles in the lowest left hand square.
Stage 4: N35 54.810 W079 03.279 You will now move onto Franklin Street. On the sidewalk there is a functional piece of sculpture named Treescapes by Arlene Slaven. Sit down. Rest a spell. And when you are ready, E = the number of treetops you can count in the backrest. Don't overthink this one. Go with the obvious answer.
Stage 5: N35 54.814 W079 03.296 You should have had to cross Franklin Street for this one. At these coordinates, you can see the mural named Jigsaw Puzzle painted by Michael Brown in an alley between Franklin and Rosemary Streets. The coordinates should have put you in front of a plaque on a building next to the one on which the mural is painted. Read this plaque. This building once housed a department store until a certain year. A = the last digit in the date (year) this building housed a department store.
Stage 6: N35 54.877 W079 03.220 Continue walking up Franklin Street. To find the last work of art, you will have to leave Franklin Street and enter the Rosemary Street parking deck. As most people lose signal in the parking deck, you can approach these coordinates by coming up over the deck and through the plaza up there. At these coordinates, you should be able to see the mural named Primitive (Cave) Paintings also by Michael Brown. These cave paintings are painted all over the parking deck. It is important to try and get to the coordinates or find the wall that is in the picture. On this mural, there are a number of tick-like or scorpion-like creatures near the bottom of the mural. C = the number of these creatures in the mural.
As a bonus, at this sixth set of coordinates, you can see another mural painted on the buildings in the alley. The mural is named Amber Alley and was also painted by Michael Brown.

You should now have all the data you need to find the final stage. Watch out for muggles. I tried to put it in a place where you wouldn't look too odd searching for something!

Update--6/6/08 -- The final (now a nano) has moved a few feet to a more magnetic location!