New and renovated spaces will foster creativity; encourage innovative teaching, practice, creation, exhibition and collaboration; and attract a talented and diverse community of artists, scholars and visitors from across the campus and around the world. What emerges is a pipeline of creative and artistic talent and leadership that continues to elevate Dallas as a significant nexus for design, innovation and artistic practice and contributes to the rising national and international reputation of Meadows as a leading school of visual, performing and communication arts.

Phase One of the renovation will modernize the north wing of the building from Hillcrest Avenue to Bishop Boulevard. The project will create and improve academic spaces for the visual arts, art history and creative computation while transforming exterior entrances into grand, welcoming and accessible spaces.

SMU Meadows School of the Arts aims to celebrate the legacy of the late William B. (“Bill”) Jordan, internationally known scholar, teacher, author, founding director of the Meadows Museum and former chair of the Division of Fine Arts, with the creation of the William B. Jordan Gallery. To be located on the first floor of the original home of the Meadows Museum, the new gallery will be ideally situated for student critique sessions, temporary exhibitions and gallery talks.

Thanks to donations from Dr. Jordan’s friends, colleagues, and former students, fundraising to support the construction of the William B. Jordan Gallery is more than halfway to the goal of $1 million.

For more information about giving opportunities in support of the transformation of SMU Meadows School of the Arts facilities, please contact Nicholas Weege, director of development, at 214-768-2610 or nweege@smu.edu.