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Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri, Announces Opening of New Wing
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Dan Carver, Museum Educator
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$3.3 Million Project Adds Galleries and Public Amenities
January 21, 2009—The Springfield Art Museum Board and the City of Springfield announce the opening of the new West Wing addition of the Springfield Art Museum. The expansion increases the Museum's galleries and public spaces, providing new exhibition space for the Museum's collections of more than 9,000 objects and for juried and touring exhibitions.
Financed by private donations made to the museum over the past 15 years, the new wing includes four new galleries: the William Maurice Eldredge Gallery; the Gertrude Vanderveer Spratlen Gallery; the Bill H. Armstrong Gallery and the Joan Cousins Hartman Gallery. The new wing also houses the Mary Louise Rosenbauer Library, a new Museum shop, an office for the Southwest Missouri Museum Associates and a new entrance hall. The new wing adds an additional 10,000 square feet of space to the Museum facility.
The parking lot has also been expanded and a new entrance has opened on Brookside Drive for easier access to the museum and parking.
The new wing was designed by Paul Marti Associates Architects of Clayton, Missouri, and Marshall-Waters-Woody Associates of Springfield, Missouri. The general contractor was Rich Kramer Construction.
The Springfield Art Museum is a City agency with a rich heritage of supporting the arts in the Ozarks. It operates under authority of a nine-member board. The Museum is the permanent home for over 9,000 art objects representing thousands of years of culture. Special collections include 19th, 20th, and 21st century American paintings, watercolor, sculpture and prints. Incorporated in 1928, the Museum was first operated entirely by volunteers and still relies heavily on community support in a variety of ways. The Museum has had several homes along the way. The present Museum, on the edge of Phelps Grove Park, opened in 1958. A 392-seat auditorium was completed in 1974 and extensive renovation of the Museum was completed in 1984. In 1994, the Jeannette L. Musgrave Wing with four new exhibition galleries and storage for the permanent collections was completed.
New exhibitions mounted in the new wing will include Jon Schueler: Weathering, an exhibit of eighteen paintings about nature. Schueler was a second generation Abstract Expressionist whose work focused on merging nature and abstraction. This exhibit will open April 25, 2009, in the Gertrude Vanderveer Spratlen and Bill H. Armstrong galleries. A preview reception will be held on April 24, 2009 from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. The public is invited.
Admission to the Springfield Art Museum is always free. Museum hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. The Museum is closed on Mondays and City of Springfield or National holidays. For more information about the Springfield Art Museum, call 417.837.5700 or visit www.springfieldmo.gov/egov/art
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