City of Yuma, Yuma Art Center

The Yuma Art Center is a unified performing and visual arts center featuring the Historic Yuma Theatre and highlighting a new two story museum, with a loggia compatible with the historic character of Main Street. Designed with integrated theatre technical services, this first phase includes upgrades to the historic theatre, renovations to an adjoining building for art studios and classrooms, an outdoor courtyard, and contemporary new construction housing art galleries...

Wausau Performing Arts Foundation, Artsblock

ArtsBlock, in Wausau, Wisconsin is a $13.1 million cultural and civic asset that expands the 1927 Grand Theater as the centerpiece of an entire city block, and creates a community arts center with the restoration of the 1,200-seat historic theatre at the heart. The design concept for ArtsBlock links three historic structures on its downtown block, and creates flexible new facilities as it restores, enhances, and connects the existing buildings....

Cleveland State University, Fine and Visual Arts Facility

Westlake Reed Leskosky was retained to design a new 178,000 SF Fine and Visual Arts facility for Cleveland State University. After studying what the scale of programmatic elements meant for the site, our firm determined that the best solution would be to expand the existing communications building out to Euclid Avenue, combining performance spaces and allowing a sharing of back-of-house and support spaces. The visual arts program would be located...