Dixon Master Plan

• Phase 1

  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

• Phase 2

  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

• Phase 3

  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

• Phase 4

  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.
  

• Phase 5

  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.