Seated+Man

**Artist:** Leo Sewell
====**Media:** Made of ordinary things like action figures, pencils, glasses, a phone dial, a baseball bat, and more. All of the items that are a part of the sculpture were found by the artist in a dump. ====

**Location:** Sitting on a wooden bench in the 2nd Floor library hallway.
====**History:** The Mixed Media Man was donated on December 31, 2008 (the same year as the Butterfly and the Falcon) by Buzzy Ruttenburg, whose kids were students at Parker. The Mixed Media Man is about 4 feet sitting down and is made if many different materials such as pencils, glasses, action figures (from many sizes) a plastic flower, a baseball cap, a baby doll, a phone dial, and many other objects all found at a dump. Leo Swell, the artist who created the sculpture, grew up around dumps and is known for using mixed media from them to create his unique sculptures. The Mixed Media Man originally was seated on his own Plexiglass chair, which the school still has today. But as soon as they brought him in they immediately knew that the chair he came with was not a "Parker" kind of chair, so they took him off and seated him on the wooden bench in the library hallway. At first many were worried that the piece wasn't very Parker-esque. However all worries were put to rest when the fourth graders dressed the Mixed Media Man up like an Egyptian Pharaoh for their annual Egyptian Museum. ====