Project: Frosted subsurface glass. Bronze fasteners. Carved and paint filled slate panels. Designate varied threshold of donors in a closed campaign for the new campus.
Client: University of Virginia School of Law
Designer: Cloud and Gesham
Project: Alphabetical listing of all donors to new 15,000 seat basketball arena. A 128 million dollar project, partially funded by private gifts. Capacity is for 1500 names. Screen printed on anodized aluminum slats. Gloss dark cherry wooden strips divide up the sea of copy into three column manageable chapters. Wall has a decorative reveal pattern based on a basketball pattern.
Client: John Paul Jones Arena
Designer: Gropen and VMDO Architects
Project: Annual listing of corporate sponsors. Historic brick from what was once an exterior wall, serves as backdrop behind glass and dark oxidized bronze. Decoration is screen printed enamel ink. Corporate underwriting while critical to ongoing programs in hopefully recognized tastefully in this state university.
Client: McIntire School of Commerce
Designer: Gropen
Project: Complete listing, in threshold categories, of donors to 157,000 sqft renovation and new construction. Names are craved and paint filled in native slate. Honed, rubbed finish. Located in the original 30,000 square foot section of the building.
Client: McIntire School of Commerce
Designer: Gropen
Project: Wall recognizing 100 private fund / endowments for the church. Decoration is screen printed veined white American marble. Reader rail below explains the scope of the ongoing program. Listing is chronological.
Client: First Baptist of Alexandria
Designer: Gropen
Project: Cumulative gifts are recognized here for museum donors. Screen printed anodized aluminum slats are listed, not in alphabetical order. This mixed arrangement facilitates donor movement upward. (A printed slat can be removed and placed higher up as the donor gets into larger brackets) (The resultant blank, open space is filled by simply shifting the remaining slats around)
Client: Marine Corps Museum
Designer: Gropen
Project: Carved gold leaf logo stands atop three thick acrylic donor recognition panels. Special profiled polished edges of ¾” thick acrylic stand off into of fabric insets in a restored theater. The nearly closed campaign lists donors in categories, names are randomized and produced with vinyl graphics. This permits easy updating as remaining changes are made.
Client: Paramount Theater
Designer: Gropen
Project: Recognition of a Ten Year capital campaign. State hospital lobby. Aluminum pin mount letter heading. Ceiling mount track lighting. Combination of screen printed lists for smaller donors. Carved onyx panels for larger donors.
Client: University of Virginia Health System
Designer: Gropen
Project: Garden named for Outgoing Dean. Center detail to a circular small courtyard garden. Carved, paint filled, frosted and bush hammering were used to vary the appearance of the black granite.
Client: University of Virginia School of Law
Designer: Gropen
Project: Combined recognition of Charter Donors and ongoing open campaign. Listing is partially alphabetic and partially chronological. Carved, frosted, paint filled Rojo Sienna, veined granite. Screen printed anodized clear aluminum. Names decorated, cut vinyl on top of beveled acrylic.
Client: George C. Marshall Museum
Designer: Gropen
Project: Closed capital campaign. Names in cut vinyl. Multiple layers of tinted acrylic sheet. Designed to repeat aspects of new highly modern addition to synagogue in Maryland.
Client: Bnai Shalom of Olney
Designer: Gropen
Project: One wall combines recognition in this newly constructed Children’s Museum of: all donors; the founding board; in-kind donors and ongoing gifts cumulatively. Design mimics colors and attributes of client print material. Vinyl decoration on acrylic. Individual rooms, areas and building dedication were all done similarly.
Client: Junior League of Winston-Salem
Designer: Gropen
Project: Recognition of major gifts. Mixed listing of donor names and photographs. Black grid and partially open area matches the suspended ceiling detail above.
Client: Piedmont Virginia Community College
Designer: Payne Ross and Associates
Project: Three wall panels recognize a closed campaign. Front surface cut vinyl decoration helped with the adjustments needed to fit client driven changes (movement between categories, spelling, marital status). Project style was repeated around entire wing of hospital.
Client: Stonewall Jackson Hospital
Designer: Gropen
Project: Existing cast bronze plaque relocated to a more appropriate poured-in-place concrete plinth and landscaped bed.
Client: Washington and Lee University
Designer: Gropen