Show Your Support!
Browse the links below and choose a way to show your support:
Membership
Naming Opportunities
Sponsorship
Adopt-A-Seat Campaign
Volunteer
Join a unique community -- become a friend and founding member of the Fine and Performing Arts Center!
download our membership form (PDF format)
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Express your passion with a naming gift. Looking for a way to share your passion for the fine arts? Planning to create a permanent tribute to your family? Seeking a unique gift for a friend or loved one? Want to honor a student, professor, mentor?
Consider making a lasting gift to the Fine and Performing Arts Center at WCU. Your gift can be recognized with a one-of-a-kind naming opportunity for a facility or area devoted to enhancing art education, the fine arts, and the performing arts. In addition, your gift will generate student scholarships, create or enhance endowments that fund guest directors and visiting artists, or provide support for innovative performances and academic programs.
Your gift will assure that the years ahead will be successful, and your name or the name you choose to honor will forever be linked with that success.
Sample of Naming Gift Endowment Options:
| Naming Opportunity | Annual Yield (5%) | Impact |
| Fine and Performing Arts Center $13,000,000 |
$650,000 | Create distinguished professorships |
| Performance Hall $5,000,000 |
$250,000 | Provide for visiting scholars, guest directors, and world-class performances |
| Main Lobby $3,000,000 |
$150,000 | Fund scholarships, internships, and Center upgrades |
| Museum $3,000,000 |
$150,000 | Support traveling exhibits and purchase acquisitions for the Fine Art collection |
| Contemporary Gallery $250,000 |
$12,500 | Enhance opportunities to showcase the art of alumni and guest artists from the region |
| Student Gallery $150,000 |
$7,500 | Provide for materials, framing and supplies for student exhibitions |
| Drawing Art Gallery $100,000 |
$5,000 | Sponsor guest artists and exhibits |
| Rehearsal Hall/Mini Theatre $500,000 |
$25,000 | Fund student performances, including travel opportunities |
Other naming opportunities, such as ceramic, sculpture, painting and photography studios are available, as well as classrooms and lecture halls in the School of Art and Design.
For more information on naming opportunities, contact:
WCU Development Office
201 H.F. Robinson Building
Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, NC 28723
800-492-8496
828-227-7124
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A sponsorship can help to increase your customer base, provide employee incentives, and offer an exciting venue in which to entertain and honor your clients, friends and families.
find out more about sponsorship
Show your support by making a donation and adopting an historic seat!
read more about the Adopt-A-Seat Campaign
Make new friends and share your talents as a volunteer. There's a role for everyone.
download and complete our volunteer form (PDF)
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