Crystal Bridges Expansion | Conversations with Alice Walton and Moshe Safdie
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ต.ค. 2024
- Crystal Bridges announced plans for a major expansion designed by Safdie Architects, with construction commencing in early 2022 and an expected completion in 2024. This will increase the size of the facility by roughly 50 percent, adding new galleries, educational facilities, and community spaces to allow for more art, outreach, programs, and events.
Here, Crystal Bridges founder and chairperson Alice Walton discusses the museum’s expansion with Moshe Safdie, founder of Safdie Architects.
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ABOUT CRYSTAL BRIDGES
Since opening in 2011, Crystal Bridges has welcomed more than five million visitors to experience the renowned collection with free admission, exhibitions, and five miles of sculpture and walking trails on 120 acres. The museum opened with approximately 1,500 artworks spanning five centuries of American art and has since more than doubled its collection and presented more than 60 exhibitions, organizing or co-organizing many of them including “Crafting America,” which is currently on view. In 2018, the museum re-installed its Early American Galleries to tell a more inclusive story, adding multiple perspectives with Native American, folk, and Spanish Colonial objects, contemporary works, and bilingual text. The museum has been focused on acquiring works by artists underrepresented in art history. Recent acquisitions include works by 25 Native American artists, Sam Gilliam, Amy Sherald, and 34 artworks featured in “State of the Art 2020,” which debuted alongside the grand opening of the Momentary, a 63,000 square foot satellite space dedicated to contemporary art.
In 2019, Crystal Bridges hosted nearly 800 programs and events and welcomed more than 700,000 visitors including 50,000 students participating in school field trips. Committed to providing an accessible experience for visitors of all backgrounds and abilities, the museum provides on-site accommodations and continues to grow its educational programs to serve new audiences through community outreach initiatives. In 2020, the outreach team held over 100 listening sessions with local organizations to hear about COVID challenges. As a result, thousands of meals, food boxes, and house-cleaning supply kits were distributed to schools and families all around the region, each paired with an art kit. The museum is committed to building upon these efforts, with in-depth partnership projects with local artists and social service agencies, and more collaborations that expand the voices and perspectives in the museum.
ABOUT SAFDIE ARCHITECTS
Safdie Architects is an architecture and urban design studio imbued with a spirit of idealism and innovation; drawing upon a depth of experience to solve contemporary building challenges in imaginative and unexpected ways. Safdie Architects is active in a wide variety of project types, scales, and sectors, designing museums, cultural centers, libraries, housing, mixed-use developments, transportation centers, and master plans in geographically and culturally diverse places. The studio’s projects around the world have become beloved resources and symbols of their communities as well as regional and national landmarks. The practice has its design headquarters in Boston with offices in Jerusalem, Toronto, Shanghai, and Singapore. www.safdiearch....
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Me and my wife went yesterday and it was incredible. A real treasure, an uplifting and enriching experience. Thank you Ms. Walton for your generosity and appreciation for art.
Thank you Alice, the team at Safdie & the entire Crystal Bridges staff!! Cannot wait the explore the new spaces.
Thank you so much, Alice!
Thanks for your likes and comment, for more you can write me personally on my email address on moshesafdie91@gmail.com
What an incredible gift...again! Wow! When it comes to our little corner of the world, I seem to be saying that a lot these days! Alice, thank you, thank you, thank you for your continued love of art and your vision to bring the experience of art to all of us. The blend of art and nature is already woven within CB now, so I can’t wait to enjoy this “capstone!”
Thanks for your comments and likes, to write me personal you can message me on my email address directly on moshesafdie91@gmail.com
Congratulations, Crystal Bridges Museum
of American Art! Such exciting news. Ms. Walton, thank you. The museum and the expansion is such a gift. Thank you for enriching the lives of everyone who walks through the doors of your magnificent vision.
A very exciting new phase for Crystal Bridges! Alice’s vision coming to fruition with a great architect at the helm.
The Walton's have been so good to Northwest Arkansas. We have an unbelievably beautiful museum, inside and out that my family loves! They have made very important donations to the University of Arkansas and the Art Department specifically, as well. We are very thankful and fortunate. Thank you Alice and family!
How about the Waltons also pay their employees a living wage so they can easily afford food, shelter, clothing, education, and healthcare?
Ii hope to come from another country to see this amazing place!! thank you for your enlightenment and vision .
Thank you Alice. I am so excited to see the expansion.
I love Crystal Bridges. The art and the running trails. Thank you, Alice!
Thanks Alice and Safdie, whenever i am there in Crystal Bridges it reminds me of presence of God
What a gorgeous museum!
GOD BLESS YOU ALICE. I AM VERY PROUD OF YOU AND VERY HAPPY FOR YOU. I HOPE ALL OF YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE MY FRIEND. I HOPE YOU HAD THE BEST AND HAPPIEST CHRISTMAS OF YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. I LOVE YOU ALICE. I LOVE MR. ESPARZA AND ALL OF MY BEAUTIFUL FRIENDS. EVERYTHING HAS BEEN A MIRACLE AND FAR BEYOND MY WILDEST DREAMS! I ABSOLUTELY FEEL LIKE CRYING WITH COMPLETE GRATITUDE AND JOY! I AM VERY PROUD OF YOUR FATHER SAM AND VERY HAPPY FOR HIM. 🙏
@Crystalbridges beautiful museum, wow ❤
Moshe Safdie designed the marina bay sands singapore as well. I expect Miriam Adelson introduced him to Alice Walton.
Olaa soiy de Colombia admiro mucho sus cuadros son ermosos bendiciones
Hmm, those DWIs, though. Just swept those under the rug, didn't we, right next to the body that we don't talk about.
Madame ALICE WALTON c'est la meilleure femme du monde à mon avis...parceque elle a beaucoup donné à l'humanité...
merci beaucoup chère ALICE WALTON
Hello mam alice
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I would like to have conversations with Alice Walton Abt Excelsior springs Mo which is a town filled with elderly and we can't afford the food from Walmart and the sales are few and far between but still leave us at an unaffordable level. Why would you run business that way are you gouging us? We don't understand why a name we used to respect is turning on those who made it. You give millions to this and millions to that but over charge those who made your company and stayed with your company. These present times for most folks are about eating feeding Thier children not million dollar art pieces and at the rate and current state of our government it doesn't look like most folks are gonna care Abt art the art Thier caring Abt is the art of working 2 jobs and paying rent and getting food on the table why have you turned against your loyal shoppers?