- University News Archive - 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/tag/design/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:44:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Nabholz Charitable Foundation supports new 糖心Vlog传媒LR scholarship campaign /news-archive/2016/12/08/nabholz-charitable-foundation-ualr-scholarship-campaign-little-rock/ Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:44:36 +0000 /news/?p=65918 ... Nabholz Charitable Foundation supports new 糖心Vlog传媒LR scholarship campaign]]> Nabholz Charitable Foundation recently donated $50,000 to establish the Nabholz Endowed Scholarship for Art and Design. The foundation also contributed $30,000 to Nabholz鈥檚 existing endowed scholarship for construction management students at the university. 鈥淣abholz is very proud to support 糖心Vlog传媒LR, and in particular help provide financial aid to deserving students.鈥 said Greg Williams, chief executive officer. 鈥淚t is important to Little Rock and central Arkansas that 糖心Vlog传媒LR thrives. The business community needs 糖心Vlog传媒LR graduates.鈥 In October, the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Office of Alumni and Development kicked off a $3 million campaign to fund endowed scholarships for art students. The campaign stems from a commitment the university made to Windgate Charitable Foundation that it would raise scholarship funds in response to Windgate鈥檚 gift of $20.3 million for the construction of a new visual arts building. The Nabholz gift helps bring the campaign to the half million dollar mark. The planned facility, now named the Windgate Center of Art + Design, is scheduled to open for the spring 2018 semester. Once completed, the nearly 65,000-square-foot facility will bring all the Department of Art and Design programs into one location. Scholarship funds from the campaign will substantially enhance the 10 existing scholarships dedicated to art students at the university. The increased scholarship opportunities paired with talented and engaged faculty and the new Windgate Center of Art + Design are expected to go far in attracting top-notch art students to 糖心Vlog传媒LR.]]> 糖心Vlog传媒LR launches construction on Windgate Center of Art + Design /news-archive/2016/10/11/ualr-launches-construction-on-windgate-center-of-art-design/ Tue, 11 Oct 2016 22:06:28 +0000 /news/?p=65414 ... 糖心Vlog传媒LR launches construction on Windgate Center of Art + Design]]> Construction is underway on the center, scheduled to open for students on Jan. 8, 2018. A $20.3 million gift from the Windgate Charitable Foundation 鈥 the second-largest gift in the history of the university 鈥 makes construction of the facility possible. In support of the project, the university launched a $3 million endowed scholarship campaign that will make a quality art or design education attainable for even more students. In the past, local artists and designers needed to move from the region to find the art school experience that the new facility will soon provide in Little Rock. 鈥淲hat we鈥檙e building will become a destination for students who might otherwise have left the state to pursue their dreams,鈥 said 糖心Vlog传媒LR Chancellor Andrew Rogerson. Keeping those students in central Arkansas is expected to feed the local creative economy and be a positive driving force in the Little Rock area. 鈥淭his is a game changer for the department, university, and community,鈥 said Tom Clifton, art professor and interim dean of the 糖心Vlog传媒LR College of Arts, Letters, and Sciences. 鈥淭he new building and programs have the potential to make transformative changes within the city of Little Rock.鈥
Participants hold shovels during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Windgate Center of Art + Design Oct. 11, 2016.

Groundbreaking ceremony for the Windgate Center of Art + Design Oct. 11, 2016. Photo by Lonnie Timmons III/糖心Vlog传媒LR Communications

The new 64,600-square-foot facility 鈥 combined with 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 diverse and unique course offerings 鈥 聽position the university to become the center of art and design education in Arkansas. 鈥淎 building of this magnitude will help the already outstanding visual and applied design programs of this institution reach new levels of excellence, influence and significance,鈥 Clifton said. In response to the Windgate gift, 糖心Vlog传媒LR committed to raise scholarship funds. Joe Lampo, director of development for the College of Arts, Letters, and Sciences, called the donation a remarkable philanthropic act. 鈥This gift is an exceptional act of generosity on the part of Windgate Charitable Foundation,鈥 Lampo said. 聽 The Windgate Foundation board worked for years with the Art Department studying the needs and the feasibility of a new facility, said John Brown, executive director of the Windgate Charitable Foundation. 鈥淲e are proud to be associated with 糖心Vlog传媒LR and its Department of Art and Design and look forward to the academic and career success of their students who will study and create art in this beautiful new facility on the 糖心Vlog传媒LR campus,鈥 Brown said. Once completed, the facility will bring together applied design and art programs that are currently housed in three separate areas of campus. Students will have round-the-clock access to the facilities, which will include a fine arts foundry, as well as areas for art history and education, blacksmithing, ceramics, digital fabrication, graphic design, illustration, metal fabrication, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpting and woodworking. The Windgate Center of Art + Design will open up possibilities for new and expanded collaboration with the arts community in the Little Rock area. 糖心Vlog传媒LR already enjoys rich partnerships with local organizations such as the Arkansas Arts Center, the Arkansas Arts Center (AAC) Museum School, the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, Art Connection and the THEA Foundation, 聽said Mia Hall, interim chair of the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Department of Art and Design. In the past, those organizations often offered workshops and classes in 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 well-equipped facilities, but space and building access were limited. The new facility addresses both of those issues and presents new possibilities. 鈥淲e will have the only fine arts foundry in Little Rock, for example, and workshops can be taught in that space by the AAC Museum School, making this fantastic facility available to a larger community,鈥 Hall said. Unique art and design programs that 糖心Vlog传媒LR already offers include web design and development, illustration, furniture design, and jewelry making. Planned new programs include 3-D modeling, animation and video game design. Little Rock-based WER Architects is the architectural firm working on the project, and Nabholz and Doyne companies are jointly handling the construction.

Full statement from the Windgate Charitable Foundation:

鈥淥ur relationship with 糖心Vlog传媒LR and its visual arts program began in 1995. It has grown and flourished since then because of the art faculty鈥檚 talent, dedication to excellence, and passion for making and, in turn, teaching. The commitment of university administration to building a quality art program solidified our relationship. 鈥淭he Windgate board worked with the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Art Department for over a decade to determine first whether a facility was needed and then what type of facility would best suit the needs of the department and serve to foster its growth. We are proud to be associated with 糖心Vlog传媒LR and its Department of Art and Design and look forward to the academic and career success of their students who will study and create art in this beautiful new facility on the 糖心Vlog传媒LR campus.鈥

About the scholarship drive:

糖心Vlog传媒LR has opportunities for donors to name spaces in the Windgate Center of Art and Design in honor of a family member, friend, company or organization. Donors also can similarly name individually endowed scholarships. Smaller donations will be used to build the general art student scholarship fund. For more information, contact Joe Lampo at 501.569.8326 or jwlampo@ualr.edu. ]]>