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.”
William Rawn Associates The courtyard will serve as a hub in the new Innovative Maker and Learning Complex. The complex will include a large makerspace component.
Plans for the Innovative Maker and Learning Complex remain on schedule, with a design that will centralize RIT’s makerspace and performing arts and provide much needed classroom and study spaces.
Design work on the multipurpose facility continued after the COVID-19 pandemic closed the campus in March.
Architects from the Boston-based firm William Rawn Associates Architects Inc. had already visited campus several times to meet with administrators, faculty, staff, and students.
William Rawn Associates