Can a building's ornamentation grow and change? Can it inspire artists, educators, and other scholars to be creative in new ways? In this article, the authors, an instructional faculty team of two studio art professors and the fine arts librarian at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), describe how its collection of Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) architectural ornaments inspired various artistic events, including collaborative studio art projects. The authors provide information about Louis Sullivan and his connection to Richard Nickel and SIUE's Sullivan architectural ornament collection. Next, the authors make a case that collaborative art projects and events like the examples add cultural value to original or similar artifacts in one's physical and virtual communities. Finally, they demonstrate ways in which technology facilitates such collaborative projects.