2025 Lerch Bates
People's Choice Awards Finalists

The McGrath Family Performing Arts Center repositions the arts as a central force in student life. Located at the heart of campus, the building includes a 560-seat proscenium theater with full fly tower, lobby, gallery, and professional-grade technical systems. Designed as both performance venue and pedagogical tool, it supports student learning across disciplines. The architecture expresses an ethos of doing more with less—leveraging exposed structure, a limited material palette, and performance-driven detailing to deliver a space that advances creative, intellectual, and spiritual growth.