A Special Invitation
from
JAXON BISHER,
Our Art Director
Please accept my sincere invitation to visit Graphical Arts Gallery & Academy. There's plenty for everyone to see and do as we celebrate our 75th anniversary in our grand community. We are offering many new displays, new classes, and activities for all ages. Come join in the fun! We look forward to seeing you!
The Graphical Arts Academy and Gallery’s mission of education received a financial boost this month.
The four children of Manya Fan donated $150,000 to the museum for its educational center's redesign, reorganization, and modernization. The area inside the gallery will be called the Manya Fan Art Education Center.
It is the biggest memorial gift in the gallery’s 75 year history.
Fan was a former art gallery board president and founder of the fabric guild before her death in August, 2010. She attended meetings until the spring of 2010. Fan had been a volunteer at the gallery since the 1960s.
The money has been put into the art gallery’s Centennial Fund and will be used to expand classrooms and studios, said Gordon Chavers, director of the campaign.
Current studio space has been unchanged since 1960, when the current building was renovated. Classes get to full capacity quickly.
"This important gift will allow us to increase our capacity to teach studio art to children and adults," Chavers said.
Because of the generous donation presented this month by the children of Manya Fan of $150,000 to redesign and modernize the Graphical Arts Academy and Gallery, more classes will be offered teaching studio art to adults and children in the Greater Lafayette area. Sign up today...classes fill quickly!
Fan's children no longer live in area, but David Fan, Hung Fan, Vicky Black, and Frances MacDonald are all graduates of West Lafayette High School and Purdue University.
(Journal and Courier, 2011).
Christina Castro
with Nathan Brand
Wendy Lefkowich