Work continues on VCU’s Institute of Contemporary Art downtown. Photo by Evelyn Rupert.
With $3 million in donations given on her behalf, a local arts supporter will now lend her name to part of VCU’s new Institute for Contemporary Art.
The school announced Tuesday that the first-floor art gallery in the new $35 million building will be named for Beverly Reynolds, founder and director of Reynolds Gallery in the Fan.
More than 80 donors contributed to the ICA’s fundraising campaign on Reynolds’ behalf, including Harmon and George Logan of Charlottesville, Pam and Bill Royall, and Carolyn and John Snow. Reynolds herself is also among the donors for the Institute of Contemporary Art.
“It’s kind of overwhelming,” Reynolds said Tuesday afternoon. “It’s really terrific and it’s humbling, but I share it with a lot of people that have put tremendous time and energy behind it.”
Reynolds opened her art gallery in the Fan about 30 years ago and has worked in the art community ever since. She’s also served on boards for VCU’s Anderson Gallery, the Children’s Museum of Richmond and the St. James Children’s Center. Reynolds’ husband David was formerly president of Miller Manufacturing Co.
Beverly Reynolds
VCU said it has about $33 million raised toward the center’s $35 million fundraising goal. Richmond companies Markel Corp. and The Martin Agency are also among the project’s donors.
The ICA lists naming opportunities on its website ranging from $2,500 donations to name a theater chair, $25,000 for a bike rack, bathroom or dock lift and gallery naming opportunities for $2.5 million.
The ICA, now known as the Markel Center at the VCU Institute for Contemporary Art, broke ground at Broad and Belvidere streets in June.
Gilbane is the project’s general contractor, and the 43,000-square-foot facility is scheduled for completion in 2016.
The museum will not collect items but will instead feature rotating exhibits. Lisa Freiman, formerly curator of a contemporary art museum in Indianapolis, was hired as the institute’s director. Last month the ICA announced Lauren Ross of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Okla., would be the museum’s curator.
Work continues on VCU’s Institute of Contemporary Art downtown. Photo by Evelyn Rupert.
With $3 million in donations given on her behalf, a local arts supporter will now lend her name to part of VCU’s new Institute for Contemporary Art.
The school announced Tuesday that the first-floor art gallery in the new $35 million building will be named for Beverly Reynolds, founder and director of Reynolds Gallery in the Fan.
More than 80 donors contributed to the ICA’s fundraising campaign on Reynolds’ behalf, including Harmon and George Logan of Charlottesville, Pam and Bill Royall, and Carolyn and John Snow. Reynolds herself is also among the donors for the Institute of Contemporary Art.
“It’s kind of overwhelming,” Reynolds said Tuesday afternoon. “It’s really terrific and it’s humbling, but I share it with a lot of people that have put tremendous time and energy behind it.”
Reynolds opened her art gallery in the Fan about 30 years ago and has worked in the art community ever since. She’s also served on boards for VCU’s Anderson Gallery, the Children’s Museum of Richmond and the St. James Children’s Center. Reynolds’ husband David was formerly president of Miller Manufacturing Co.
Beverly Reynolds
VCU said it has about $33 million raised toward the center’s $35 million fundraising goal. Richmond companies Markel Corp. and The Martin Agency are also among the project’s donors.
The ICA lists naming opportunities on its website ranging from $2,500 donations to name a theater chair, $25,000 for a bike rack, bathroom or dock lift and gallery naming opportunities for $2.5 million.
The ICA, now known as the Markel Center at the VCU Institute for Contemporary Art, broke ground at Broad and Belvidere streets in June.
Gilbane is the project’s general contractor, and the 43,000-square-foot facility is scheduled for completion in 2016.
The museum will not collect items but will instead feature rotating exhibits. Lisa Freiman, formerly curator of a contemporary art museum in Indianapolis, was hired as the institute’s director. Last month the ICA announced Lauren Ross of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Okla., would be the museum’s curator.