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University News
Contact: Liam Otten - (314) 935-8494 Home - 314-863-4296 liam_otten@aismail.wustl.edu Sam Fox Arts Center Receives $1 Million Challenge Grant [St. Louis, MO., 12-07-02] The J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation has awarded a $1 million challenge grant to Washington University in St. Louis to support development of the new Museum Building within the Sam Fox Arts Center at the University, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. To receive the $1 million grant, the University must raise an additional $5.8 million in outright gifts and pledges for the Museum Building by October 9, 2003. "We are thrilled that the Mabee Foundation has pledged such a significant gift to the Museum Building, and has done so in a manner that adds considerable value to each subsequent gift made to the project," Wrighton said. "The Museum Building will be a focal point for activities within the Sam Fox Arts Center. It is going to serve as a diverse, multidisciplinary resource for students and faculty, as well as an architectural ‘destination' for the entire St. Louis region." The approximately 65,000 square-foot Museum Building will be a centerpiece of the Sam Fox Arts Center, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki. The Center is both an expansion and consolidation of five academic units of the University into an interdisciplinary complex for learning, innovation and art exhibition that will prominently occupy the southeast corner of the campus. The new Center will be created through the renovation of three existing facilities -- Bixby Hall, current home to the School of Art; Givens Hall, home to the School of Architecture; and Steinberg Hall, home to the Washington University Gallery of Art, the Art & Architecture Library and the Department of Art History & Archaeology -- and their linkage to two newly constructed facilities, the Museum Building and an additional School of Art building. The Museum Building, to be located immediately north of Steinberg Hall, will offer a diverse range of academic and exhibition activities within the Sam Fox Arts Center. It will house classrooms, studios, computer and multi-media technology, research and reading rooms as well as permanent and temporary gallery spaces. It will also provide state-of-the-art storage facilities for the Gallery of Art, the oldest art museum west of the Mississippi River. Located on the main floor of the Museum Building will be the 13,000 square-foot Kranzberg Information Center. This will encompass an expanded Art & Architecture Library; the Visual Resource Collection, a massive slide and digital image bank; and the Whitaker Learning Lab, a media studio and technology center. Creation of the Kranzberg Information Center will enable new, collaborative studies between students in Art and Architecture, in addition to a proposed combined major from the School of Art and the Department of Computer Science. Plans for the Museum Building also incorporate a School of Art Gallery for student and faculty exhibitions, additional faculty offices and classrooms for the Department of Art History & Archaeology. J.E. Mabee was an oil operator, drilling contractor, and rancher in Oklahoma. He and his wife established the Mabee Foundation in 1948 to assist educational, charitable and religious organizations in the southwestern United States (Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas), particularly in the area of capital improvements. Located in Tulsa, OK, the Mabee Foundation is one of the largest supporters of higher education in the nation. |
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