The University of Central Arkansas has received a $549,537 grant from the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council (ANCRC) to be used for updating and renovating McAlister Hall.
The renovation is expected to begin in January 2023 and is tentatively scheduled to open before fall 2023.
A collaborative group across multiple disciplines worked on the proposal for more than a year. With the upcoming opening of the Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts, most of the Department of Art and Design will be moving out of McAlister Hall and the Schichtl Studio Arts Building. The Schedler Honors College will move from McAlister Hall to Schichtl and the interior design program will remain in McAlister Hall.
“Since there were many moving pieces, we found this was a great opportunity to do restorative work to the building,” said Sara Bailey, proposal development specialist in the UCA office of research and sponsored programs, who wrote and submitted the proposal. “So many people came together to form this project. None of this would have been possible without the collaborative effort from people like Jennnifer Whitehead, Danielle Barron, Tony Wire, Dr. [Gayle] Seymour, Randy Stocks, the physical plant and many others.”
Danielle Barron, director of planning, design, and construction and a former professor of interior design, will be leading the project as the principal investigator.
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