Willard Art Center Facade

Original watercolor on Arches cold press

17" x 23"

graphite | watercolor | gold leaf

SOLD

Prints available, please inquire.

In 1994, Dick Clayton, Sr. and his son Steve donated the theater and adjacent buildings, to the Idaho Falls Arts Council, a private nonprofit organization.

The Idaho Falls Arts Council launched a capital campaign, known as the Phantom project. An anonymous donor challenged the community to raise half of the total cost and the Phantom would donate the remaining. The successful $4.2 million dollar campaign renovated the Colonial Theater and the adjacent buildings into a beautiful visual and performing arts center for the region.

Renamed for the Phantom donors, Miles and Virginia Willard, who also chaired the campaign, the Willard Arts Center now contains a visual arts building with galleries, classrooms, artist studios, meeting spaces for events, and much more.