These coordinates will bring you to AU's quad where you'll be looking at not one but two PandaMania statues.
This statue is Time 4 Love by Luis Peralta. This semi-abstract panda was intended by the artist to be a means "to promote peace in this time of war." The meaning of the clock is a bit unclear, but as for other symbolism on the bear, according to the artist, "the pear on the upper right arm is the symbol for passion and the butterfly on his high thigh represents one of the creations from which man got the idea to fly. The panda is sitting on clouds and that make him an angelic being."
This statue is Yin-Yang by Connie Slack. This panda is an exercise in the use of positive and negative space. According to the artist, "The lesson was to work with overlapping black and white shapes to create positive and negative spaces that were interesting and diverse. This lesson seemed perfect for the Panda. Naming it 'Yin-Yang' also seemed appropriate for a black and white animal and the bamboo leaf pattern right for the dichotomy of an animal hiding in plain sight."
You'll need information from both statues to get coordinates to the physical cache (a hide-a-key container) a short walk away.
N 38° 56.A5B
W77° 5.C5D
A= the number of butterflies on the Time 4 Love panda
B= the number of toes on the footprint on the Time 4 Love panda
C= the number of red objects on the Yin-Yang panda (including the pedestal)
D= the number of solid colored paws on the Yin-Yang panda (no bamboo pattern) + 3
The physical cache is a short 5-10 minute walk away but before you go, be sure to check out the three PartyAnimals statues also on the quad. The PartyAnimals were part of another art exhibit hosted by DC a few years before PandaMania. Although there are FAR more PartyAnimal statues than PandaMania statues, most of the elephants and donkeys are in buildings or are on private property so I won't be doing a cache series for those unless I get really creative.
BONUS PANDA
Thanks to Fish63 who mentioned that there was another panda a few feet away in the Arts and Lit building!
Congrats to RDIP for FTF!!!