The Roanoke Valley Reef was an interdisciplinary community art project shown at Olin Gallery of Roanoke College in 2013. It was directed by math professor Jan Minton and Olin Gallery Director Talia Logan. By far the most common reaction of people entering the exhibit was “Oh …. wow!” Even though pictures and videos don’t fully do it justice, they’re way better than words, so here are some pictures, followed by links to explore resources online.
The Olin Gallery site has some great pictures and a nice time-lapse video of the construction of the Reef. Link here
The Roanoke Valley Reef was a satellite of the international Crochet Coral Reef Project. Here are links to official information. Link #1 … Link #2
The Roanoke project was inspired by a satellite reef at the Smithsonian Institute. Here is an article about that. Link here
Here are some articles from local news sources. Roanoke Times main … Roanoke Times 1 … Roanoke Times 2 … So Salem … College Paper … Salem Times
And a Flickr page that has some slide shows of pictures. Link here