Celebrating transformation (Posted: Oct. 28, 2010)

A plaque commemorating the JMU Alumni Association's gift of $500,000 to support the Forbes Center for the Performing Arts is now in place.

Alumni Arts Courtyard Honors Madison Experience (Posted: Sept. 14, 2010)

JMU Alumni Association donated $500,000 to support the Forbes Center for the Performing Arts and Madison's long tradition of excellence in arts education by naming the Alumni Arts Courtyard.

JMU Welcomes Largest-Ever Gift (March 14, 2008)

While James Madison University was busy celebrating the 100th anniversary of its beginnings and a century of achievement, an inner core of leaders and celebrants cheered a founding of another kind.

Gifts Bolster Performing Arts Center (Jan. 28, 2008)

A number of sizable gifts totaling $5.8 million have bolstered efforts to reach the $10 million in essential private funding needed for the future Performing Arts Center

Rain falls, spirits soar at PAC groundbreaking (Oct. 2007)

Donors, community leaders, professors, students, alumni and administrators joined together to break ground for the university's new state-of-the-art performing arts center.

A new partnership portends a time for the arts (March 2005)

The Commonwealth expects JMU to fund a portion of costs to complete its performing arts center in combination with gifts from private donors.