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The Tampa Museum of Art (TMA) has received a lead campaign gift for
$1.2 million from longtime Tampa Bay
area philanthropist Bretta B. Arthur.
Arthur has been affiliated with the museum for nearly 30 years and has a strong
commitment to education and arts in the
community.
TMA is conducting a capital fundraising campaign to build a new facility
that will be located in downtown Tampa’s
Curtis Hixon Park. Phase one of the
facility consists of approximately 66,000 square feet and is designed by San Francisco,
CA, architect Stanley Saitowitz.
Site work is expected to begin in February,
with the opening of the new museum
anticipated by the fall of 2009.
Arthur first became involved with the Tampa Junior Museum years before the
TMA was founded in 1979. “In those
days I spent a great deal of my time and
effort working to develop resources for children in our community. Education
has always been at the heart of my philanthropic
interests, so I am very pleased
Tampa philanthropist Bretta B. Arthur (center), with her daughters and their husbands.
Left, Anne and Drew Pittman; right, Tready and Thayer Smith. to have been able to assist the museum
with a gift of time – and now a gift of
financial support,” Arthur said.
She has served in numerous volunteer capacities, including museum docent and
board trustee. While raising her two children,
Tready Smith and Anne Pittman,
Arthur instilled the importance of giving back to the community and each of her
children has adopted their own philanthropic
interests.
Smith currently serves on the TMA board of trustees and as president of the
museum’s foundation, and is active with
the Child Abuse Council in Tampa.
Pittman is actively involved with the St. John Presbyterian Learning Center in
Tampa.
The cost of the new museum project is $33.5 million. Funding for the facility
will come from both the public and private
sectors of the community. The City
of Tampa has allocated $18.5 million of Community Investment Tax Funds and
additional monies are being generated
through private donations.
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