In the 2005 season, many images defined the resurrection of the Penn State football program. And tomorrow, its artist returns to State College.

"It's crazy because it's a Homecoming for me also," said former defensive end Matt "Blu" Rice. "I've been dying to get up there all season to see on the games up there in person."

Rice will be selling prints of "Bluprint," which became the poster for eventual Big Ten champions, as a fucntion of his newly formered arts business, Mateo Blu. He will also give away and sign cards for free between 9:30 and 11:30 tomorrow at the Penn State All-Sports Museum.

Three hundred limited edition 24 x 40 canvas paintings will sell for $700 dollars and collector's edition on 22 x 30 hawk mount condor fine art paper will go for $300 apiece. The proceeds of the paintings will go to Penn State.

He hopes to return Blue-White weekend and sell prints that are more affordable for students.

"These prints that I have there, due to the quality, and being the first prints that they've come out with, they're a little pricey on the student level," Rice said. "I'm not that far detached from being a student."

This past summer, Rice started Mateo Blu. He tossed around a bunch of the names, but, ultimately, he wanted a name that represented him in a different way, albeit one that was recognizable to those who have known him.

"It's different for me, but it's me and that's what I wanted to capture with the name," Rice said. "I said each name I came up with out loud, and I liked the way Mateo Blu rolled off my tongue."

Still constructing the intricacies of the business, he has divided it into three branches. Penn State, other works and nonprofit. Penn State and his other works allow him to keep the business afloat, while the nonprofits, a mixture of two, will go to a self-devised charity.

He has not yet picked a name for the nonprofit organization, but profits will go directly toward families in need of financial assistance.

He hopes to launch the organization in spring, and the reason he started the organization was to help families in circumstances less privileged than his own.

"With my family, and this is why I was inspired with it, I was blessed to come from a two parent household, but a lot of people weren't," he said. "[We want to help] families with sickness and health issues that are affected tremendously finance-wise. With this nonprofit, we want to give back to families, maybe taking care of groceries for a month, maybe helping with a family's kids' education, sending someone who's never been out of the neighborhood on vacation."

Undrafted last April, Rice signed a free agent contract with the Bills but was released in June. After a short time with the Rams, he was waived. During the season, he has worked out for the Giants, Chief and Jaguars.

Football won't be a part of Rice's immediate future, but the "Bluprint" allows him to impart some history on the Penn State program, and that's the purpose of the limited edition prints.

"I'm setting it up so it's not only a paraphernalia," Rice said. "It's what it stands for. It was done for the season. It was a blueprint to a championship -- the fans and purpose all in one."