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Case Study: Dia Art Foundation
Beckelman+Capalino (“B+C”) has been engaged as consultants to Dia providing strategic advice related to real estate development and fundraising. B+C has been engaged to manage the process of selecting an architect for a new Dia facility and to work with the director, staff, and a committee comprised of Board members to evaluate responses to Requests for Qualifications and Requests for Proposals. Upon designating an architect B+C will continue to work with Dia as project managers to oversee the full scope of the project, from schematic design through construction management including all aspects of community relations advocacy and permitting for the building.
Dia was founded in 1974 to support ambitious and innovative artists whose works exceeded the scope of traditional museums and galleries. Through its collections, exhibitions, and educational and public programs, Dia aims to make the art of our time accessible to the widest possible audience. Dia initiates, presents, and preserves extraordinary, long-term art projects, and collects in-depth the art of some of the most renowned artists of the last half-century. Dia presents its collection of works from the 60s to the present at Dia:Beacon in Beacon, New York in a 300,000 square foot former Nabisco box-printing factory on the Hudson river. As well, Dia presents long-term, site-specific projects in the western United States, New York City, and Long Island.
While Dia develops a new permanent location for its contemporary exhibitions and public programs in New York City, it is presenting an interim program in collaboration with the Hispanic Society of America in upper Manhattan (HSA).
The New York Times - June 24, 2008
Dia Art Foundation Names a Curator as Its Next Director