WSU art museum awarded largest grant yet

WSU's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art last week received $270,000 in grant funding from the Henry Luce Foundation.

The grant, which marks the largest sum donated to WSU's new museum, will be used to construct the Collections and Learning Gallery. The planned gallery would allow WSU to present artwork from the permanent collection in open storage, giving greater access to students and other visitors.

“The Collections and Learning Gallery will fulfill our essential goal of bringing rare and important cultural materials to a greater degree of public access,” Curator of Art and Exhibitions Ryan Har...