<p>To: University faculty, students, and staff
From: Robert J. Zimmer, President
Re: Arts Center Naming Gift</p>
<p>I am very pleased to announce that the University of Chicago has
received a cash gift of $35 million from David and Reva Logan, their
sons, and grandchildren in support of the University's planned Center
for the Creative and Performing Arts. In honor of this gift, the
Center will be named the Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and
Performing Arts.</p>
<p>The gift by the Logans will have a transformative effect on the arts at
the University of Chicago. The Reva and David Logan Center for
Creative and Performing Arts, which is slated for opening in 2011 at an
estimated cost of $100 million, will be a venue for the artistic
expression and multi-disciplinary inquiry, performance, and production
of our faculty and students. It will foster the interaction of our
faculty and students with our own professional arts organizations, as
well as the arts communities of the South Side and the city of Chicago. The
center is a pivotal component of the evolving University plans to
strengthen the arts on campus and contribute to and derive benefit from
the arts environment within the city as a whole.</p>
<p>This gift is believed to be both the single largest cash gift to the
arts in the city of Chicago and one of the largest gifts to support a
university building dedicated to the arts in the United States. We
hope to complete the architect selection for the Reva and David Logan
Center for Creative and Performing Arts later this spring.</p>
<p>David Logan is a 1939 graduate of the College and a 1941 graduate of
the Law School. Reva Logan also attended the College and is a former
teacher. The Logans, lifelong Chicago residents, have a wide range of
philanthropic interests including education, health, social change, and
poverty reduction, but have a special passion for the arts. David
Logan has been a leader on several national, state, and city committees
and councils supporting the arts and received from the state the
Governor's Special Recognition Award for Distinguished Service in the
Arts. For many years, Mr. Logan has also been a leader in the
University of Chicago alumni community.</p>
<p>Sounds awesome! Thats what I want to do with my life... go to University of Chicago... then get rich and donate them a building! </p>
<p>Where will they put it?</p>
<p>All I know is what I was emailed.</p>
<p>I think it's going to be built on E. 60th between Cottage Grove and Drexel. This was the location of Frank Lloyd Wright's Midway Gardens, so we have an arts connection at that location. I know the University has interviewed a number of star Architects and there are supposedly models somewhere of their proposals. Does anyone know if the models exist, and are the available for viewing?</p>
<p>wow that sounds great.
ill be applying to chicago next year. i go to a public high school conservatory for the arts right now. art and geography were my only issues with chicago...</p>
<p>but if it opens in 2011 will the class of 2012 be able to really take advantage of it? untill then how is the art program? art history? i really want to continue in art so...a good preferably painting or printmaking studio is vital!</p>
<p>Right now, we have Midway Studios and the Smart Museum of Art. The Smart is a great museum-- I haven't taken visual arts here, but I know a handful of visual arts majors who really like it.</p>
<p>Websites to check out:</p>
<p><a href="http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/art/%5B/url%5D">http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/art/</a>
<a href="http://dova.uchicago.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://dova.uchicago.edu/</a>
<a href="http://arts.uchicago.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://arts.uchicago.edu/</a></p>
<p>I have never talked to a prospective student who was interested in geography. What were your major concerns with the program, if you don't mind me asking? I'm always curious when prospective students are interested in something that we don't normally hear about.</p>
<p>Geographical Studies: <a href="http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/pdf_08/GEOG.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/pdf_08/GEOG.pdf</a></p>
<p>haha i meant chicagos location. im in nyc right now and im not sure i want to leave the northeast. i know its silly but not being able to go home on the weekends worries me. and btw im more of a poli sci type of girl.</p>
<p>thanks so much for the links and info. you guys are so helpful, with all the confusion of this whole college thing i really apreciate it. the only help i got from my college advisor was "well, i can print out your transcript after my lunch break".</p>
<p>haha Oh. I thought you were worried about Chicago's Geography program. Since I know nothing about it, I was really curious about its shortcomings. </p>
<p>There are a lot of NYC students here. I'm from MA. I usually go home one weekend a quarter because my parents don't mind flying me, but I know what you mean. The good thing is that quarters are 10 weeks, so it's never a really long time. The weeks go really fast; most of the time, I'm too busy with work and friends to think about it.</p>
<p>The flight from Midway to Laguardia is about 1.5-2 hours. Even with security and such, it's still easier getting from here to there than it is getting to a lot of schools in the northeast. Plus, you don't have to drive it :-)</p>
<p>I will say, though, that I understand the distance thing. If I want to go to graduate school, for example, I'm basically confining myself to the northeast, too, because I want to be near home.</p>
<p>"construction of a new arts center south of the Midway."</p>
<p>"The new facility, to be located adjacent to Midway Studios at East 60th Street and South Ingleside Avenue"</p>
<p>Found the answer to my question in the Maroon!</p>
<p>Awesome awesome awesome.</p>
<p>after looking at those links and doing the virtual tour i think im falling in love! thanks so much for the help, you guys are fantastic! ill probably do a visit but seriously, im head over heals.
sooo now i should work on getting in huh. ha!</p>
<p>They're really obsessed with doing things over the midway. Currently it's a place no one goes unless they live or eat there. It sounds as if they're trying to shift the campus over that way a bit. Interesting.</p>