Dixon Master Plan

West Edge Project

• Western Border Fence
• Maintenance Area
• Plant Nursery Area
• Hughes Pavilion Parking Lot
• Securing the Plant Nursery Area

Start August 2013—Complete January 2014

Dixon Gallery Infrastructure Project

• Fire Suppression throughout the Dixon galleries, Art Storage, and other public areas
• Backup generator
• Floors in Plough and Willmott Galleries; carpet in auditorium
• Residence Roof
• Replace residence windows and doors
• Vapor locks on all points of public entry and egress
• Redesign and renovate from the Museum Shop to the Shipping Dock
• Freight elevator and lift
• Redesign and renovate art storage
• Gallery Lighting
• Security systems; card readers
• Technology; booster for cell and wifi signal

Start May 2015—Complete November 2015

Dixon Gardens and Grounds Infrastructure Project

• Entry gates
• Wayfinding and signage
• Visibility from Park Avenue (Windows)
• Service Road to Lower Parking Lot
• Access to Garrott Court
• Perimeter Road
• Service Road to South Lawn
• Exit Gate onto Cherry Road
• Parking Lots
• Lighting and electrical throughout the grounds
• Irrigation
• Drainage; water management
• South Lawn
• Universal accessibility—pathways and sidewalks
• Southern border fence

To be undertaken in phases, 2016 and 2017

Education Spaces and a Learning Center and Hughes Pavilion Expansion and Improvement Project

• Redesign and/or repurpose all existing education facilities at the Dixon (i.e.: Leatherman Workroom, the Residence, the Galleries, Winegardner Auditorium, the Potting Hub, and Canale Conservatory) so they are better learning spaces, more readily available (where applicable), technologically sound, and integrated into a cohesive overall philosophy of art and horticultural learning
• Build a new facility for education programs
• Expand and renovate Hughes Pavilion

To be undertaken in 2018.

Garden Building

• Create new gardens around the perimeter of the Dixon property.
• Create new gardens adjacent to Formal Gardens on the east.
• Create new gardens adjacent to the Formal Gardens to the south.
• Create new gardens in proximity to Learning Center.
• Leave no space in the Dixon unattended or uncultivated.
• Think differently about the Dixon gardens and what they might have to say.
• Invent new interpretive models that animate the spaces we create.
• Invent new ways for visitors to participate in the experience of the Dixon grounds.
• Invest more in sculpture.
• Invest ourselves in the history of the property itself.
• Design and develop a new entry garden across from the new museum entry.

To be undertaken in phases, 2016/17/18 - 2022.