$5 million gift to fund Lehigh University Art Galleries
The gift from Kenneth R. Woodcock 65 will preserve LUAGs teaching collection and enhance art education.
BETHLEHEM, PA
.- A $5 million gift made by arts philanthropist Kenneth R. Woodcock 65 will endow a directors fund for the Lehigh University Art Galleries. The Woodcock Directors Fund will ensure the protection and preservation of the universitys teaching collection and fulfill the full potential of LUAG as a driver for arts education and engagement for both students and the community.
The fund represents the largest gift ever given to LUAG and will be administered by Director William Crow. Woodcock shares Crows vision that art can be an interdisciplinary engine for teaching, learning, and research.
Hearings on requests from supervisors to landmark two LGBTQ historic sites in San Francisco are expected to take place in the coming weeks. If approved for listing, they would bring the number of properties in the city granted local landmark status specifically for their ties to LGBTQ history to six.
At its February 17 meeting the city s Historic Preservation Commission is scheduled to vote on landmarking the home where the late lesbian pioneering couple Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin lived throughout most of their 54 years together. Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman authored the resolution unanimously supported by the Board of Supervisors to begin the landmark process for the property at 651 Duncan Street.
O’Connor: 2021 planning lays groundwork for future economic development
Cathy O’Connor
Looking at the most significant economic development projects for our city in 2021, two that I’m most anticipating are historic preservation projects in northeast Oklahoma City.
Last summer, two of Oklahoma City’s African American historic sites, the Lyons Mansion and Brockway Center, received funding from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, provided through the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. The funding is being used for a local planning process that includes a reuse feasibility study and business plan for each property.
We have a schedule for public input that starts later this year and I look forward to hearing ideas and needs from citizens, business owners and leadership, especially those who live, work and represent northeast Oklahoma City. Those community-driven planning processes will be complete in 2021 and we’ll soon have a new vision for how these
Online forum to highlight San Antonio s historic places of color
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Mario Salas, former member of the San Antonio City Council, used to spend time at the Woolworth Building after its lunch counter became one of the first in the South to be racially integrated without protest or violence. The building could be reused as part of a new Alamo museum, or possibly demolished.Carlos Javier Sanchez /ContributorShow MoreShow Less
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The recently discovered historic foundations of the circa-1875 chapel of St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church, now the second-oldest black church in San Antonio, is seen May 21, 2020, near the intersection of West Houston and Cameron Streets in downtown San Antonio. The foundation was discovered in February 2020, while crews were excavating for the second segment of the San Pedro Creek Culture Park. The cornerstone of the church is under the black covering in the foreground.William Luther /StaffShow MoreShow Less