When, where, parking, cost and other odds and ends about the MAC.
BY THE NUMBERS:
- Ground breaking: May 20, 2002
- Opening: Classes, June 6, 2005
- Theaters: Fall, 2005
- Size: 205,600 square feet on seven acres
- Capital funding: $94.5 million
- Structures: Three buildings incorporating four theaters (1,600-seat Tom and Janet Ikeda Theater, 550-seat Virginia G. Piper Repertory Theater, 200-seat Nesbitt/Elliott Playhouse Theater and 99-seat Anita Cox Farmhouse Studio), five art galleries, 14 visual and performing arts studios, plus various offices, meeting spaces and lecture halls.
- Annual number of performances: 600 to 800
- Annual number of classes: 700
PARKING:
There is limited parking on the MAC campus and a parking garage immediately behind the neighboring Mesa Bank/Mesa Public Schools building. There are 2,000 free spaces within two blocks of the center, administrators say.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
Mesa Contemporary Arts galleries are below street level on the MAC campus, with galleries spread throughout the building.
NEW SPACE, OLD HAT:
Since 1981, Mesa Contemporary Arts has presented, curated and juried exhibitions of contemporary art by emerging and internationally recognized artists. MCA also has a collection containing nearly 200 objects in all media. Before moving into the new 8,400-square-foot underground exhibition space at the Mesa Arts Center, MCA exhibited art in two converted classrooms of an old school.
PERMANENT COLLECTION:
The Mesa Contemporary Arts collection contains nearly 200 objects in all media, including paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photography and decorative arts objects, all presented in a series of exhibitions in the SRP Permanent Collection Gallery.
