The Juneau Arts and Humanities Council announced Sept. 8 that it received a grant from the Juneau Community Foundation’s Jurasz-Scudder Fund for the new Juneau Arts and Culture Center (new JACC). Specifically, the grant supports fundraising efforts including the active work of the quiet phase of the campaign syncing with the forward movement of the design planning for the new facility.
The vision of Juneau’s new arts center is to create a space that is welcoming and inclusive to all artists and audiences — a place where shared experiences will intersect, connect, and inspire within the theater, lobby, gallery, café, and meeting rooms. In line with the vision, the design phase has included collaboration with artists and the community, who, together, will make and experience art in the finished building.
“The highly energetic Capital Campaign Committee appreciates this support at a crucial time in the process of raising the funds we need to design of the New Juneau Arts and Culture Center. The Center will be a crown jewel in our community, another building we will claim with pride, adding to the reputation of Juneau as Alaska’s artful capital city,” said Annie Calkins, co-chair of the Capital Campaign Committee.
As a public/private partnership, the new JACC is designed to make the most of Juneau’s existing community assets. This landmark arts center will be devoted to live and recorded performance, exhibits, gatherings, celebrations, work and creativity. Using the working name New Juneau Arts and Culture Center, it will house performance and gallery space, meeting rooms, offices for arts and cultural groups and a café.
Near the Walter Soboleff Center, Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall and Andrew P. Kashevaroff (APK) building, the new venue will attach to the existing Juneau Arts and Culture Center (JACC), extending towards Centennial Hall.
