Members of the Kays Foundation board presented a $50,000 gift commitment to endow and name the Kays Gallery, a new exhibition space within the Bradbury Art Museum. Those present for the announcement included (from left) Curt and Chucki Bradbury, museum benefactors; Terry Carty, Kays Foundation executive vice president; Dr. Tom Bishop and Richard Carvell, Kays Foundation board members; and Les Christensen, director of Bradbury Art Museum.
The Kays Foundation has awarded a $50,000 gift commitment to the Bradbury Art Museum at Arkansas State University
Members of the Kays Foundation board announced the commitment amid the opening of the annual Delta National Small Prints Exhibition.
The grant was awarded to help the museum get matching funds and to endow and name the Kays Gallery, a new exhibition space within the museum.
“The Kays Foundation exists for the sole purpose of supporting Arkansas State University,” said Terry Carty, executive vice president. “Today it does this by providing grants to support faculty, staff, departments and colleges or other entities which further the academic, service and research missions of Arkansas State. Annually, the foundation board reviews grant requests for worthwhile projects and awards grants which advance the university.”
The grant also will help provide an expanded schedule and related public activities at Bradbury.
“We are very thankful to the Kays Foundation board for the generous gift,” said Les Christensen, director of the BAM. “We are thrilled to be working with the Kays Foundation for the advancement of the Bradbury Art Museum. Now we have our first room endowed, it is ‘Kays Gallery.'”
In August, Stephens Inc. COO Curt Bradbury and his wife Chucki made a $500,000 matching gift to transform the Bradbury Gallery into the Bradbury Art Museum.
The Arkansas State College Foundation for the Advancement of Higher Education, which does business as Kays Foundation, traces its beginnings to 1911 and the administration of V.C. Kays, the founding president of the institution that evolved into ASU.
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