Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Art Building
At Board of Trustees Meeting Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Pledges Money for Construction of New Art Building: May 1986 Plans Announced: November 6, 1987
Construction Started: Spring 1989
Private Dedication: October 20, 1990
Public Dedication: October 21, 1990
Architect: Koetter, Kim and Associates
Location: Southeast corner on University quadrangle adjacent to Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery
Space: 95,000 square feet. 147 teaching spaces, 30 faculty offices
Cost: $11 million--$3.25 million from Dorothea Ilgen and Maurice Shaffer -- rest of money from the three-year Campaign for Syracuse
Notes:
The Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Art Building houses the two-dimensional arts, including: Advertising Design, Communication Design, Computer Graphics, Drawing and Painting, Fashion Illustration, Film the Freshman Foundation Program, Museum Studies, Photography, and Video. The building also has studio space for students and instructors, a 60-seat lecture hall, a 300-seat auditorium, and several combination lounge/gallery areas.
Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer is a resident of Boca Raton, Florida and Lewisberry, Pennsylvania. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University in 1933, and her MA in Art History from Penn State University in 1948. She has served on the Syracuse University Board of Trustees since 1968. Shaffer co-chaired the fundraising Campaign for Syracuse with Edward S. Green (BA Syracuse University 1947, JD S.U. 1960).
In December 1988 the University received a $500,000 matching grant for the art building project from the Fred L. Emerson Foundation of Auburn, NY. Rhoda and Emanuel Shemin contributed a naming gift for the building's auditorium.
