{"product_id":"college-station-state-of-mind-art-print-betsy-crum","title":"College Station Art | College Station State of Mind | Betsy Crum","description":"\u003cp\u003eSteinbeck had it that Texas is a state of mind, an obsession. He meant the whole state. Some towns take the idea more literally than others, and College Station takes it about as literally as a place can.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCollege Station Dorm Room Art by Betsy Crum\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe print is a weathered Texas silhouette filled with the flag — dusty blue, cream, faded brick red, a five-point star rubbed soft — on a chalky, scraped-plaster cream ground, under heavy black wood-type capitals. It reads like something that has hung in a house for thirty years, which is roughly how long the average family here has been making the same drive. Highway 6 stitches the place to Bryan, two towns that stopped pretending to be separate a long while back. On a fall Saturday the color of the day is maroon, in every window and on every porch, and the traffic on Wellborn Road stops being traffic and becomes a slow parade. You can hear the stadium from a parking lot half a mile off. Northgate empties out in July and refills in a week. The whole town runs on a calendar that starts in August and ends with people crying in a parking garage in May.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a graduation-week and parents-weekend piece more than anything — see the rest in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/texas-graduation-gifts\"\u003eTexas Graduation Gifts\u003c\/a\u003e, or fit it out with the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/texas-dorm-room-decor\"\u003eTexas dorm room decor\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eQuestions\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs the quote Steinbeck's?\u003c\/strong\u003e The Texas line is. \u003cem\u003eTravels with Charley: In Search of America\u003c\/em\u003e (1962): \"Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession.\" The city versions, this one included, are Crum Art's own riff on him rather than anything he wrote.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs this an official university product?\u003c\/strong\u003e No. It is independent artwork about the town of College Station, with no university affiliation, licensing, logo, or endorsement of any kind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho made it?\u003c\/strong\u003e Betsy Crum, working in Texas. Original family artwork, printed to order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crum Art","offers":[{"title":"8x8 (fits a 12x12 frame)","offer_id":47727579463869,"sku":"college-station-state-of-mind-art-print-betsy-crum-8x8","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12x12 (No Mat)","offer_id":47727579562173,"sku":"college-station-state-of-mind-art-print-betsy-crum-12x12","price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16x16","offer_id":47727579594941,"sku":"college-station-state-of-mind-art-print-betsy-crum-16x16","price":78.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20x20","offer_id":47727579627709,"sku":"college-station-state-of-mind-art-print-betsy-crum-20x20","price":88.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x24","offer_id":47727579660477,"sku":"college-station-state-of-mind-art-print-betsy-crum-24x24","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0700\/3439\/1229\/files\/8x8COLLEGESTATIONState_Of_Mind_square_gold_frame_005.jpg?v=1778541193","url":"https:\/\/www.crumart.com\/products\/college-station-state-of-mind-art-print-betsy-crum","provider":"Crum Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}