Multi-Cultural Arts Center

Initiative:	Multi-Cultural Arts Center
University:	UH, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Focus:	Urban/Minority Education

Home Department

Art, Arte Público Press, Blaffer Gallery, Creative Writing, Music, and Theatre

Key Faculty

Department Chairs and Program Directors

Program Description

The new multicultural arts facility would be an addition to the Fine Arts Building and would partner with the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts (CWMCA). The facility would include center administrative offices, Arte Público Press administrative offices, 20 faculty offices and studios, four rehearsal spaces, a student gallery, and a 200-seat auditorium for classes and public presentations. In addition, the center would award scholarships for multicultural student artists.

Priorities Addressed

Extending multicultural education agenda

Background and Qualifications

The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts is now up and running. This facility would augment the CWMCA in three ways: offer enhanced facilities to CWMCA units, extend scholarships to multicultural artists, and offer a home for Arte Público Press. The UH student body is ethnically diverse, and Houston is an international city and a center of Hispanic culture and immigration.

Federal Agencies

Department of Education
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for the Arts

Annual Operating Budget
Managing Director	$ 80,000
Administrative Support Staff	$100,000
Students Stipends (12 at $15,000/yr)	$180,000
Other M&O	$100,000
TOTAL	$460,000

Other operations of the center would be self-funded.