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Thank you very much for your contribution to The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery. Your support will help enable The Wallach Art Gallery to advance Columbia University?s long-standing tradition of historical, critical and creative engagement in the visual arts. Serving as both a laboratory and a forum for exhibitions and public programming connected to the research and production of the University?s community, the gallery bridges the diverse interests and approaches to the arts at the University with the broader public.
Established in 1986, The Wallach Art Gallery is Columbia University?s premier visual arts space. The gallery has presented numerous critically acclaimed exhibitions, offered a dynamic range of programs related to its projects, and published catalogues that have made lasting contributions to scholarship.
In 2016, The Wallach Art Gallery will be among the first to move to Columbia?s new ?Manhattanville? campus where it will be part of a dynamic cultural center in upper Manhattan to be known as The Lenfest Center for the Arts. The Center will be a state-of-the-art complex designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop that will include a film/video screening room, a black box theatre, a dramatically larger gallery with a adjacent flexible-use floor for display, public events, and educational outreach. At the Lenfest, greater visibility, doubled space, enhanced programming, and additional staff will propel The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery to a much more active role in the community?not only by linking to the historical Morningside Heights campus five blocks south, but also by engaging the University with the thriving cultural milieu that emanates from 125th Street.
Most sincerely,