On the other hand, the gallery itself must be a highly controlled environment, devoid of sunlight, and protective of the delicate works on paper. On the one hand, the new building will be open, porous, and connective, linking adjacent buildings and creating new campus connections. In a small area it accommodates several complex and sometimes contradictory functions. It will be a connective building that ties multiple groups of people to one another and to the visual arts. The new gallery will be inextricable from surrounding program. The new gallery presents an opportunity to literally mix the visual arts into central campus, to extend a sense of interdisciplinarity and fellowship between departments, and to provide a clearly defined place with a distinct identity for this very important university resource. The new building site places the collection at the heart of the campus, between a McKim Mead and White designed main library and the Public Afairs Center (PAC). The collection currently resides in a remote corner of campus with inadequate facilities for storage or display. In Spring 2019, Peterson Rich Ofce won an invited competition to design a new gallery building for the Wesleyan University Davison Art Collection - one of the most extensive collections of works on paper in North America.
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