Aportion of Parking Lot No. 2 — at the southeast corner of the Hilltop Campus — will be closed through August 2006 due to construction of new facilities for the Sam Fox Arts Center.
The Sam Fox Arts Center is an umbrella organization linking the University’s five visual arts and design areas: the School of Architecture, the School of Art, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, the Art & Architecture Library and the Department of Art History and Archaeology in Arts & Sciences.
Construction will encompass two new buildings. The 65,000-square-foot Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, to be located immediately north of Steinberg Hall, will house permanent and temporary exhibition galleries as well as art history offices and classrooms, the Newman Money Museum, the Kenneth and Nancy Kranzberg Information Center and the Whitaker Foundation Learning Lab.
The 38,000-square-foot Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Hall, to be located immediately north of Bixby Hall, will house art studios and the Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Studio for the Illustrated Book.
When completed, the buildings will be integrated with Bixby, Steinberg and Givens halls to form a comprehensive, five-building arts complex at the eastern end of the Hilltop Campus.