Sarah Hudiburg

A proposed Performing Arts Center for Texas State is being scaled back.  The reason: lack of funding from the Texas legislature.  But, as Sarah Hudiburg  (HEW-duh-burg) reports in this Bobcat Update, the university still wants to construct a building for showcasing talent.

  

Texas State officials were counting on 53-million-dollars for a new Performing Arts Center, but -- citing bad economic conditions -- the legislature withheld the money.  

That did NOT kill the project, however.   Dr. Richard Cheatham, dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication, says the university received an eight-million-dollar gift from former Texas State student Patti Harrison that keeps the project alive.

(Cheatham…11 secs…do this.)

Construction on the center should begin in June 2011 with the demolition of Falls Hall. The 45-million-dollar Performing Arts Center, which boasts a music recital hall and a theatre center, will be erected in its place. Nicole Maldonado, a Theatre Arts major, says it will be great to have all of the performing arts in one central location on campus.

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Texas State officials say they hope that a ribbon cutting ceremony and grand opening of the recital hall will take place in December 2013. For Bobcat Update, I'm Sarah Hudiburg.