ReimaginedThe expansion and restoration of the University of Michigan Museum of Art

There comes a time when transformative change is not an option

Thisis the moment.

A time when an institution must evolve indramatic ways in order to meet its growingresponsibilities and fulfill its potential.

That time has come for UMMA.And so we have embarked on a historic $35.4

million campaign to expand and restoreAlumni Memorial Hall, our majestic homefor more than half a century.

This landmark building project——designed byprincipal architect Brad Cloepfil——effectivelyreimagines the university art museum,

dynamically reaffirms our mission as a vitalcenter for both formal and informal learning,and recommits to our role as a bridgebetween the University, the community, and the visual arts.

Join us now as we prepare UMMA for this trans-formation, building on tradition and history.The very future of the Museum depends onthe vision and generosity of our benefactors.

but a mandate.

“One of the finest university

collections in the country.”—The Boston Globe

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During the past decade, UMMA has regularly mounted “thoughtful block-buster” exhibitions, gaining national and international recognition in theprocess —— Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Georgia

O’Keeffe, and The Romanovs Collect: European Art from the Hermitage.

As beautiful as it is, our 1907 Beaux-Arts building places severe constraints on the scope of UMMA’s exhibitions and programs, with many spacesserving double and triple duty. For instance,

• Only 3 to 4 percent of the Museum’s outstanding collections

(more than 17,000 works of art) can be exhibited at any one

time and storage space is insufficient to the needs of UMMA’s

growing collections.

• The absence of classrooms, study rooms, and secure research

areas makes it impossible for UMMA to fulfill its mission

of teaching and research.

• Despite the fact that it hosts a multitude of lectures, performances,

and family and special events each year, UMMA has no auditorium.

UMMA is a cultural destination

for more than 130,000 visitors

annually—double the attendance

of a decade ago—and a living

classroom for students of all ages.

Projected to open in fall 2008, the newlyexpanded and restored Museum will serve as a vibrant beacon for the arts, embody-ing UMMA’s institutional values of openness,energy, and respect for diversity.

To be named The Maxine and Stuart Frankeland The Frankel Family Wing, the new addition will encompass some 53,000 squarefeet (more than doubling the existing space),creating a handsome interplay of stone,

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glass, and steel that will echo the graciousness of Alumni Memorial Hall.

The new wing will be organized around a soaring central Forum that will allow the building to be open late for film screenings, community meetings, classes,and special events.

In our current building, original skylights will be reopened, the coved ceilings restored, and mechanicals updated.

Many of the galleries will

be bathed in natural light.

The UMMA expansion has already been recognized by the

American Institute of Architects with a coveted project design award,

one of only four such awards made in 2004 for designs around the world.

“In the forefront” of

university art museums—The New York Times

Can your gift make a difference? Yes. Yourgenerous gift or pledge at any level can helpus leverage $1.5 million from the KresgeFoundation. Each of us stretching——that’swhat will make the difference.

But we’re on the clock to complete this campaign.Please help us meet the challenge and seizethis historic moment. Now is the time to

stand up and be a part of the future of the

Museum of Art.

…and Yours!The Kresge Foundation recently awarded

UMMA a $1.5 million challenge grant toward completing the campaign for theMuseum’s building project. These prestigiousand highly competitive grants are awardedon a challenge basis to assist nonprofit institutions in completing ambitious capitalcampaigns.

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“The UMMA expansion

will serve as a catalyst for

new activities and experiences,

where the boundaries of art,

life, and landscape merge

to become one.”

—Brad Cloepfil,

Allied Works Architecture

$10,000 +

Your name on the donor wall in the Forum of the Frankel Wing

$5,000 +

Your name on a piece of gallery seatingdesigned by Allied Works Architecture

$2,500 +

Your name on a seat in the new 225-seatAuditorium

$1,000 +

Your name in a permanent Donor Book to beplaced on public view in the Frankel Wing

All gifts of $1,000 or more will also receive a special

commemorative UMMA publication.

All gifts of $100 or more will be recognized in a final UMMA

Campaign Report.

For information on additional giving opportunities—or any aspect of

UMMA’s landmark building project, please contact the development

office at 734.763.6467 or visit us at www.umma.umich.edu.

As a university museum in a community setting, UMMA is committed to the

advancement of knowledge.

We believe that encounters with originalworks of art make us fuller human beingsand promote good citizenship——especiallyimportant as we prepare young people to be tomorrow’s leaders. Our thought-provoking exhibitions and programs

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encourage deep looking, challenge previousassumptions, provide solace, and allow viewers to develop their own meanings in timeless works of art.

Every gift is important. UMMA needs yourhelp to make the expansion and restorationof this national jewel a reality. We look forward to publicly recognizing gifts at the following levels:

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Thank You for supporting the University of Michigan Museum of Art

Regents of the University of Michigan: David A. Brandon, Ann Arbor; Laurence B. Deitch, Bingham Farms; Olivia P.

Maynard, Goodrich; Rebecca McGowan, Ann Arbor; Andrea Fischer Newman, Ann Arbor; Andrew C. Richner, Grosse

Pointe Park; S. Martin Taylor, Grosse Pointe Farms; Katherine E. White, Ann Arbor; Mary Sue Coleman (ex officio)

The University of Michigan Museum of Art 525 South State Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 www.umma.umich.edu