Hopkins Hood Center Museum of Art

The Arts at Dartmouth: A Grand Vision

Culminating nearly a decade of planning, the construction of the Hood Museum of Art and the expansion of the Hopkins Center mark the continuing affirmation of Dartmouth's belief that a liberal arts education must include an active involvement with the visual and performing arts.

A generation ago, Dartmouth College was transformed by the opening of the Hopkins Center. Dance, music, film, theatre, crafts, and the fine arts became fully integrated components of the academic, intellectual, and social lives of both the College community and the surrounding region, and Dartmouth began to receive worldwide recognition for its flourishing arts programs. The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education found that "Dartmouth's deliberate program to make the arts more central to the college appears to be

Together with the expansion of the Hopkins Center and the incorporation of Wilson Hall into the complex, the new facilities will increase by half again the space committed to the arts at Dartmouth, consolidating arts facilities and Programs that have extended to eleven other buildings campus-wide and continuing a success story predicted by only the most optimistic when t e hop first opened its doors twenty years ago.

As a longtime Trustee of the College and and advisor to two Dartmouth presidents, Harvey P. Hood' 18 subscribed to and furthered the institution's belief that an education must include exposure to the full breadth of human knowledge and experience for the fullness of human potential to be realized. As a successful businessman, a loyal and active alumnus, and supporter of the arts, Harvey Hood exemplified this ideal in his own life. The generous gift of the Hood family has made possible the beginning of the new museum, but to complete the project and ensure its ongoing role in the life of Dartmouth, the support of others interested in the arts and in Dartmouth is needed. working better than most by a considerable margin. An outsider can only admire the developments in the arts on this campus over the years."

With the opening of the new Hood Museum of Art in 1984, these programs will be further enriched by a major center devoted solely the fine arts, which will display the College's outstanding collection of paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs, drawings, and anthropological and decorative arts, while providing new space for a varied program of changing exhibitions.

The Hood Museum of Art, encompassing nearly 38,000 square feet, will adjoin the Hopkins Center on the east, allowing interior entry from the Hop as well as convenient access from both Lebanon Street and the College green. Created by the distinguished architect Charles W. Moore an already cited for design excellence, the building will comprise ten galleries plus classrooms, research and conservation facilities, storage for collections, offices for professional staff, and a 250-seat auditorium.

The building and program objectives of the Hood Museum of Art and the Hopkins Center are an integral part of the Campaign for Dartmouth, and will extend beyond its completion.

Many designated gift opportunities exist associated with the Hood Museum building and its programs and with the Hopkins Center expansion and the commensurate growth of its programs. For more information regarding support for the arts at Dartmouth, gift opportunities, or the manner in which gifts may be made, kindly contact:

Addison L. Winship II Vice-President for Development (603) 646-2264 Leonard M. Rieser Provost (603) 646-2404 Shelton g. Stanfill Director, Hopkins Center (603) 646-2424 Kenneth P. Spritz Director of External Relations (603) 646-2005 Richard Stuart Teitz Director, Hood Museum of Art (603) 646-2808 Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire 03755