McMurtry Building for the Department of Art and Art History to be completed in spring 2015

The McMurtry Building, the new home for the Department of Art and Art History, is scheduled for completion in spring 2015, and if all goes according to plan, the facility will open in the fall of 2015.

Construction of the building began in the summer of 2013 under architecture firms Boora Architects and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and the project cost an estimated $85 million. To start the project, the University received $30 million from donors Burt McMurtry M.S. ’59 Ph.D. ’62, former chair of the Board of Trustees, and his wife Deedee McMurtry, after whom the building will be named. Other donors and University funds contributed the rest of the cost.