Lipscomb 2010 plan officially complete

Lipscomb 2010 plan officially complete

by | Oct 28, 2010 | News Slider

Tuesday, Oct. 26, President Randy Lowry welcomed students, faculty, and guests to Collins Alumni Auditorium to celebrate the completion of the final phase of Lipscomb 2010. This phase came in the form of the James D. Hughes Center, the new home of the Department of Art and the Raymond B. Jones College of Engineering. “Because of generous donors, because of a visionary board, because of a tireless administration and an extraordinarily creative faculty, we can know wind up the Lipscomb 2010 plan,” Lowry said. The late James D. Hughes served as the Metro Schools’ director of art education for 30 years. His wife, Elizabeth, assisted Dr. Lowry with the ribbon cutting. Guest speakers included Susan H. Edwards, the executive director and CEO of the Frist Center, and Stephanie Valdez Streaty, senior manager of Philanthropy and Diversity of Nissan North America, Inc. Edwards thanked Lipscomb for its belief in the power of art while Streaty is excited to start impacting the community through a partnership between Lipscomb and Nissan. “We can’t be a fine liberal arts college if we don’t have excellent art, excellent music and excellent theater,” Lowry said. The new $4.1 million building includes studios for ceramics, drawing, painting and printmaking, a photography darkroom, an outdoor sculpture work space, and a gallery. Engineering students will enjoy updated technology systems and a number of brand new lab spaces including two LearnLabs, the first of their kind in Middle Tennessee. “After spending three years in the basement of McFarland, I am overjoyed to be in a brand new, sunlit building,” said Parker Loudermilk, a senior mechanical engineering major from Old Hickory,...