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What sight, sound or thought first inspired the greatest artists of all time? What quirk of fate or temperament, what circumstance or cause, awakened their sudden creative insight? What role did religion, ethnicity, society, politics, or exposure to cultures dramatically different from their own play in their ability to create challenging and provocative works? What obligation does society owe to the artistic passions of each generation?
ENGAGING THE MIND AND HEART
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With over 100,000 people attending cultural events, festivals, concerts, performances, conferences, and exhibits each year; UC Riverside serves as a catalyst for exploring what it means to be human in an increasing complex. Teaching young artists to engage the minds and hearts if an audience, to go beyond what has been said, danced or played before, the College for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS) offers an exceptionally broad range of performance and community outreach opportunities.
Located in the Mission Inn Historic District in Downtown Riverside, the Barbara & Art Culver Center of the Arts will enhance UC Riverside’s contribution to the flourishing community of arts and culture in Riverside. The interactive arts space, housed in the renovated historical Rouse Building, will include exhibition and retail space, a film and video screening room, graduate and faculty offices, as well as living accommodations and work space for visiting artists. It will also provide ongoing arts activities serving both the campus and the community.
Project Description
Plans for the renovation of the Rouse Building include
the following components:
Downtown Performance Hall
A crucial component to the arts renaissance in downtown
Riverside is the Downtown Performance Hall to be located
immediately adjacent to the Culver Center of the Arts.
A 250-seat auditorium with reception and exhibit space
will enhance UCR’s arts outreach efforts. The
Downtown Performance Hall provides a naming opportunity
separate from the Culver Center.
Partner in Education and the Community
The downtown presence will enable UCR to facilitate
its many arts outreach programs. UCR is a full partner
with Riverside Community College in the School for the
Arts, a targeted arts program for the Inland Empire’s
most gifted arts students that includes two years of
high school, two years of RCC, and two years at UCR.
UCR has two other arts outreach programs that will greatly benefit from the downtown location: the ArtsBridge and the Gluck Fellows Program. Both programs send UCR arts students into the community to teach and perform the arts.
Benefits of the Culver Center
of the Arts
For the region:
For UCR:
For the Arts:
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To contribute to the Barbara and Art Culver Center of
the Arts, CHASS seeks $15 million for support of this
project, which will include restoration of the Rouse
Building including its sky-lit atrium and construction
of art studios, dance studios, a media computer room
and seminar rooms. The facility will also provide much
needed space for preservation of the world-famous Keystone-Mast
Stereographic Collection now housed in the UCR/California
Museum of Photography.
Downtown Performance Hall-$5,000,000
A 250-seat, well-appointed, and flexible interactive
performances space that would be available for theatrical,
dance, and music performance, readings for Creative
Writing as well as large lectures, both generated by
University groups and also available for community use.
It will also have reception and exhibition space in
the foyer.
Atrium-$1,000,000
The large Atrium area on the first floor could serve
as one of the performance spaces in the Rouse Building.
The seating for events like these would be portable
chairs. With high quality performers the ambiance, the
architecture, salon atmosphere, and acoustics will attract
full audiences. Other public assemblies could also take
place in this unique setting
UCR/California Museum of Photography-$1,000,000
Preservation, Storage, & Support
Basement area storage for the vulnerable treasures of
the UCR/California Museum of Photography is an important
part of this plan. The expanding research and archival
collection of the UCR/CMP will be housed in this area
where it will easily be accessible for research purposes.
In addition, the world-famous Keystone-Mast Collection
of glass negatives will be housed here in seismically
stable conditions. Support spaces will include a Conservation
Room and areas for woodworking, fabrication, framing,
matting, exhibit construction, and materials storage.
Sculpture Garden
Adjacent to the Performance Hall, the Sculpture Garden
will be accessible to the community and will enhance
the end of the mall in front of City Hall.
Film/Video Viewing Room-$500,000
A state-of-the art space for Film and Visual Culture,
as well as use by other departments and the UCR/California
Museum of Photography. It will also be available for
festivals and lectures.
Media Computer Studio-$500,000
Designed for flexible, multiple use that can be reconfigurable
to support the creative activity of the faculty and
students in the building. There is the possibility of
the Media Computer Studio becoming the center for the
new Digital Arts program. In addition, the space could
incorporate the highly successful UCR/California Museum
of Photography community outreach program in digital
art.
Display Case Gallery-$500,000
The ground floor Gallery will show special exhibitions
and student art and will give a public face to the University,
increasing interaction with the community and UCR’s
pathbreaking work in the arts.
Seminar Room-$250,000
A well-appointed 30-seat Seminar Room that will serve
as the hub of the interdisciplinary program in Visual
and Performance Studies.
Faculty Dance Studio $100,000
MFA Dance Studio-$100,000
Faculty Art Studios- (each) $100,000
MFA Student Art Studios (each) $100,000
Three Artist Live-Work Studios (each) $100,000
Independent living units (approximately 750 SF each)
that will allow visiting artists to live, work, and
teach on the site.
Faculty and Graduate Offices (each) $50,000
