UT Center for the Visual Arts

The University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts is home to the UT Department of Art and is located adjacent to the Toledo Museum of Art. The exhibits shown in our gallery are usually free and always open to the public.

The CVA itself is a work of art. Designed by world-renowned architect Frank O. Gehry, it was completed in 1993. The interior spaces feature exposed structural beams, columns and steel decking, all of which are painted white. Most walls also are painted white, with doors. Baseboards and some built-in furniture warmly executed in vertical-grain Douglas fir.

The curtain wall, large windows and skylights provide the interior with intensely dramatic lighting, while also providing surprising and exciting views across exterior space to other portions of the building. No two spaces are alike, each having a unique combination of plan. elevation, lighting and external view.

A few spaces are highlighted with lively color accents: the classrooms in the basement, the Department of Art offices on the first floor and the student lounge on the third. The curtain wall, large windows and skylights provide the interior with intensely dramatic lighting, while also providing surprising and exciting views across exterior space to other portions of the building.

No two spaces are alike, each having a unique combination of plan. elevation, lighting and external view.