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Organized around a central, light-filled atrium, the 43,000 square-foot Katherine and Tom Belk Visual Arts Center offers abundant teaching, studio, office, meeting, work, storage, and gallery space. This magnificent facility was designed by the architectural firm of Graham Gund and Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and opened in the fall of 1993. |
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centerpiece of the atrium is Auguste Rodin's life-size statue Jean
d'Aire, one of six figures from his famous monument of The
Burghers of Calais sculpted in 1886. On either side of the front entrance are the William H. Van Every and Edward M. Smith Galleries providing 2,000 square feet for rotating exhibitions. |
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| The College's 2,700-piece permanent collection (including works by artists such as Rembrandt, Picasso, Matisse, de Kooning, Motherwell, Bearden, Kollwitz, and Hockney) is cataloged and housed in climate-controlled quarters in the basement, with adjoining rooms for preparation and materials storage. Gallery director Brad Thomas curates the exhibitions and manages the galleries, collection, and prep areas. |
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Art history courses are taught in the 50-seat lecture hall with complete audio-visual capability and in the seminar room, which also functions as a study library for slides of works studied in each currently offered course. |
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Card access allows this and other work and study areas of the Visual Arts Center to be available to art students 18 hours a day. |
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The slide collection of over 70,000 images is managed by curator Jeffrey Erickson and is located in a slide library adjacent to the seminar room. |
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For the study of studio art, the VAC contains separate shops for etching and lithography including one of the finest collections of lithographic stones in the country. |
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The 6,500 square-foot sculpture area enables students to work in wood, clay, plaster, metal, and features an outdoor bronze foundry. |
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