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from the issue of September 8, 2005
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Quilt study center begins to take shape
The architect has been selected and initial site work has started at the future East Campus home for the International Quilt Study Center.
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| | | An artist's watercolor shows how Robert A.M. Sterns Architects envision the future home of the International Quilt Study Center, at the corner of 33rd and Holdrege streets.
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During a special unveiling on April 13, UNL announced that Robert A.M. Stern Architects of New York will design the center for quilt study and display.
The university plans to break ground on the privately funded, $10.5 million project on the northwest corner of 33rd and Holdrege streets, with an opening planned for fall 2007.
"This is a definite plus for the university and for Lincoln," said Harvey Perlman, UNL chancellor. "The decision to hire an architect of international prominence reinforces the importance we place on the International Quilt Study Center. The opportunity to add a building by Robert A.M. Stern to our campus is exciting news for the campus, city and state."
The new, 30,000 square-foot facility will contain public galleries and meeting space on the outer layer, followed by a work area dedicated to research and climate controlled storage for the center's collection.
Robert A.M. Stern Architects selected Alley Poyner Architecture of Omaha as associate architect on the project. The university will begin accepting construction bids this fall, with work starting in 2006.
The International Quilt Study Center was founded in 1997 when Ardis and Robert James donated their collection of nearly 950 quilts to the university.
The quilt study center has since become the most important quilt collection in existence and the largest public collection of its kind.
It holds more than 1,700 quilts and four major collections last valued between $8 million and $9 million, said Patricia Crews, quilt center director.
The collection also helped form a graduate program in textile history with an emphasis in quilt studies. It remains the only program of its kind.
The center is located on the second floor of the Home Economics building on East Campus. Space was converted for the collection in 1997, but no gallery or dedicated work areas were included. Other campus galleries are used to rotate exhibits, and classrooms are used for routine care and conservation of the collection.
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