Cleveland Institute of Art Receives $5 Million From Local Businessman
Cleveland Institute of Art Receives $5 Million From Local Businessman
The Cleveland Institute of Art has announced a $5 million gift from Peter B. Lewis, chairman of auto insurance company Progressive, toward completion of the institute's campus unification project.
The largest individual gift in the institute's 130-year history will support construction of a 91,000-square-foot building, the final component of the multiyear unification project. The first phase of the project, which was completed in December 2010, included renovation of the Joseph McCullough Center for the Visual Arts. Phase two will consolidate the institute's design, biomedical art, and digital arts programs as well as art galleries, administrative offices, and the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque under one roof. In recognition of the gift, the institute, which expects to break ground on the project by the end of the year, will name the building's auditorium the Peter B. Lewis Theater.
"We are thrilled to receive this wonderful gift, not only because it represents a strong endorsement of our vision for a unified campus from this nationally known philanthropist with deep Cleveland roots," said Cleveland Institute president and CEO Grafton J. Nunes, "but also because it acknowledges the efforts of our University Circle neighbors in developing the Uptown project into a national model of culture and commerce."
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