Emory has adopted an arts village concept for its performing arts, clustering a number of venues in the southeast quadrant of campus instead of one all-encompassing facility. The design of the Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts is influenced by the university's educational mission as a liberal arts school and will feature a 750-seat concert hall, 150-seat lab theater, and a 150-seat dance studio as well as classrooms and offices. Steven Sanderson, dean of Emory College and vice president for arts and sciences, said that the center will be a "laboratory for learning, with the goal of encouraging teaching, research and experimentation. By bringing these activities together under one roof, the arts center will create a vibrant place for students and faculty that will transform the arts at Emory." Many of Emory's students and faculty are involved in the performing arts, both as an academic pursuit and extra-curricular activity.

The three-level (two floors above ground), 98,000-square-foot facility will be nestled between the Goizueta Business School and the Fishburne Parking Deck near the intersection of Clifton and North Decatur roads. The center is named after an alumna and her husband, art patrons in New York whose daughter also is a graduate of Emory, who have given $8 million toward the $30 million facility. The project is scheduled to be completed in May 2002.

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