Tempe Center for the Arts

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Tempe Center for the Arts
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Exterior view of venue from the Salt River (c.2011)
Tempe Center for the Arts
Address700 W Rio Rio Salado Pkwy
Tempe, AZ
United States
Location Metro Phoenix
Coordinates 33°25′54.1″N111°56′56.4″W / 33.431694°N 111.949000°W / 33.431694; -111.949000
OwnerCity of Tempe
Capacity 600 (Theater)
275 (Studio)
219 (Lakeside)
Construction
Broke ground2004
OpenedSeptember 7, 2007 (2007-09-07)
Construction cost$65 million
($105 million in 2023 dollars [1] )
Architect
Project managerKitchell
Structural engineer Arup Group
Services engineer Stantec
General contractorOkland Construction [2]
Website
Venue Website

Tempe Center for the Arts (TCA) is a publicly owned performing and visual arts center in Tempe, Arizona. It opened in September 2007 and houses a 600-seat proscenium theater, a 200-seat studio theater, and a 3,500-square-foot gallery. [2] Its Lakeside Room seats 200 people and overlooks Tempe Town Lake. [3] [4]

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History

In 1998, a citizens group along with city leaders in Tempe began to discuss and survey citizens about the idea of an arts center of the city. With positive reception to the proposition, city officials begin to plan the out the facility that would become the Tempe Center for the Arts. [4]

Tempe residents officially approved the center two years later, passing Proposition 400, which dedicated a one-tenth percent sales tax to provide funding for development, construction and operation of the center. $63 million for the art center and $2.7 million for the adjacent art park in funding was secured in the bill. [5] [6] On April 11, 2002, the Tempe City Council officially approved the final plans for the arts center. [4]

Ground broke on the project on April 22, 2003. While originally slated to open in spring 2006, the design and construction of the roof proved a larger under taking than planned. [7] The Tempe Center for the Arts completed construction in August 2007, with a grand opening on September 9, 2007. [8] [9] [10]

Architecture

The building was designed by Barton Myers Associates of Los Angeles and Architekton of Tempe. [11] [12] For the entrance, environmental designer Ned Kahn used 8,000 embedded marbles and tiny mirrors to create a shimmering, sunlit effect at the Center’s marquee. It echoes the shimmering effect on the west wall of the Lakeside room, where an array of mirrors captures and digitizes the available light reflecting off the Center’s negative edge pool. [12]

The Centre features a roof made of complex, geometrically folded plates. [13] The roof is visible from the surrounding freeways and the man-made Tempe Town Lake, which occupies the natural watercourse of the Salt River, immediately adjacent to the site.

The city government chose a management company (Kitchell CEM) to oversee a three-phase design competition, which resulted in the selection of the design team in 2000.

Five public art pieces were included in the design:

The Center includes the Gallery at TCA, a visual arts gallery featuring free exhibits of two and three-dimensional artwork by both locally and internationally recognized artists.

Current Resident Artists

Past Resident Artists

Home to city-produced programs:

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