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The north side of the building faces Kellogg/Highway 54.
The De Mattias Fine Arts Center
This facility, opened in 2000, includes a performance hall, the Jabara Flexible Theatre with dressing rooms and a scene shop, music rehearsal space with studio and practice rooms, an art gallery, and studios for sculpture, ceramics, painting and drawing.
Performance Hall
Performance Hall has fixed seating for 392 with a 50' wide stage providing multiple lighting and sound capabilities.
Steckline Gallery
This art gallery and areas that surround it display student and faculty art as well as rotating exhibits from outside artists throughout the year.
Jabara Flexible Theatre
This black box theatre holds a maximum of 190 people depending on setup and provides multiple lighting and sound capabilities.
Rehearsal Hall
Mainly used as a Music Department classroom for choral and instrumental rehearsals.
Other Classrooms
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Performance Hall
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O'Shaughnessy Hall
Fugate Gymnasium
This state-of-the-art facility, completed in 1999, includes a 1,100 seat gymnasium, the Eck Fitness Center with aerobics/weight room, locker rooms and an elevated indoor track. Also located inside O'Shaughnessy Hall are some of the best athletic training facilities and trainers to benefit all Newman athletes. |
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Athletic Training Center
Locker Rooms
Eck Fitness Center
History of De Mattias Fine Arts Center and O'Shaughnessy Hall
O'Shaughnessy Hall was completed in 1999 and the De Mattias Fine Arts Center opened in 2000. The old De Mattias Hall for Fine Arts and Physical Culture building was built in 1949 and dedicated on March 4, 1951.
The original building included a combined gymnasium and auditorium for fine arts. The gymnasium was said to be "one of the largest in the state” and as an auditorium, its seating capacity was 1,200.
The Music Department occupied the first floor of the west wing with three studios, classrooms, band room, instrument room and twenty private practice rooms. The second floor of the west wing housed the secretarial training and the Journalism Department. The second floor of the east wing housed the Art Department. A snack bar adjoined the gym-auditorium.
A building south of Merlini, a home originally built for an employee of the college, was converted into the college Art Department in 1958. During the 1970s the building was the president’s home and later the chaplain’s residence. |
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