SCAD Museum Expansion Incorporates Existing Brick Facade

Built to house the museum's newly acquired Evans Collection, "in the very spot from where Dr. Evans took his first train ride, and in what is the only surviving antebellum railroad station in the country, the $27 million expansion of the SCAD Museum of Art will include the creation of the Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies, as well as space for all the collections and exhibitions of the museum. In the spirit of Dr. King's desire for people to embrace diverse cultures, works by Robert Duncanson, Edmonia Lewis, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Richard Hunt, among others in Dr. Evans' collection, will share museum space alongside other SCAD collections, including photographs by Muybridge, Warhol and Leibovitz, paintings by van Dyck and Gainsborough; prints by Hogarth and Rauschenberg, studies by Picasso and De Kooning, and fashion by Chanel and Christian Dior - a true amalgam of nationalities, generations and artistic visions."  -from the SCAD Museum website.