Colby College receives $3.35 million to go toward performing arts center
The $80 million Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts is expected to open in the fall of 2023 on the Mayflower Hill campus.
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Renderings show the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts, which is scheduled to open in the fall of 2023 on the Mayflower Hill campus at Colby College in Waterville.
Rendering by William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc.
WATERVILLE Colby College has received a $3.35 million gift to go toward the $80 million Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts, expected to open in the fall of 2023 on the Mayflower Hill campus.
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Colby College is pleased to announce a $3.35-million gift to support the forthcoming Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts. In recognition, the building’s forum will be named in the donors’ honor. The forum, at the heart of the building, will be a dynamic, flexible space designed to connect the community through a range of uses, from informal gatherings to student performances and exhibitions.
“I am grateful to this Colby family for their incredible generosity,” said Colby President David A. Greene about the donors, who have chosen to remain anonymous at this time. “They share our belief in the power of innovation and creativity in developing the critical-thinking and problem-solving skills that are at the core of a Colby education. Their ongoing support and thoughtful approach toward programs and projects that are deeply personal have made an immediate and lasting impact on the College.”
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William Tsiaras has a good eye a trait that serves him well as both an ophthalmologist and an influential photography collector, who has quietly donated hundreds of works to museums over the years. His latest gift is to his undergraduate alma mater’s Colby College Museum of Art in Maine of more than 500 photographs from his personal collection, built over the past 25 years alongside the works he would acquire for institutions. As a board member and former chair, “he really put the idea on the table that the museum needed to have a collection of photography,” says the Colby Museum’s director Jacqueline Terrassa, adding that Tsiaras’s involvement with funding for purchases and matching gifts, starting in the early 2000s under former director Sharon Corwin, “transformed the whole collection”.