Punctuation Spire was originally commissioned in 1981 by A. Alfred Taubman for the Beverly Center, an eight-story shopping mall in Los Angeles, California.

It was then placed in storage until the completion of the IUPUI Campus Center, which provided a more spacious area for the 28-foot tall work.

In July 2010, Punctuation Spire was installed in its current location within the foyer of the Campus Center, near its eastern entrance off of University Boulevard.

I hope that these four sculptures will remain as monuments to one of the greatest achievements of mankind, English language.” [1] William Crutchfield was born in Indianapolis where he earned his B.F.A.

A former Fulbright Scholar, Crutchfield is an internationally known artist working in a variety of mediums, from drawings, paintings, and lithographs to monumental sculpture.

The body of his work emphasizes trains, ships, aircraft and other things mechanical, yet there are many quirky figures, animals and other tangents on display throughout the decades.

The range of scale and mediums he uses—from small notepad line drawings to six-foot watercolors to 28-foot tall wooden sculptures—qualify him as true multi-media artists.” [1] [2]