A seat with your name on it

Our "Take a Seat" Campaign gives alumni, faculty and staff, students, family and friends of the University an affordable and meaningful way to contribute to BGSU's Wolfe Center for the Arts.

You can attach your name to this state-of-the-art project, or the name of someone you would like to honor—a graduate, relative, professor, alumnus, student or friend. When you name a seat in the Wolfe Center for the Arts, in the 400-seat Thomas and Kathleen Donnell Theatre, a name plaque bearing the inscription of your choice will be placed on or near the seat you select.

  Click here to view and print an order form now

Take a seat. Support the arts.

Giving levels within the Donnell Theatre, the main theatre, include the following:

Dress Circle Seat ($2,500)
Choice seats at the front levels of the balcony and main floor

Director's Seat ($1,000)
Seats directly behind the Dress Circle seats and along the side of the theatre

Ovation Seat ($500)
Seats throughout the middle and sides of both the main floor and the balcony

Patron Seat ($300)
Movable seats under the balcony

There are a limited number of seats available, so don't delay. Play your part in supporting the Wolfe Center for the Arts, a place where new stars are in the making.

Other naming opportunities within these theatre spaces include several beautiful features: the Grand Drape, the Proscenium Arch and the decorative lighting fixtures, among others. If you are interested in providing a gift for any of these items, please contact the BGSU Office of Alumni and Development at (419) 372-2424, toll free at (888) 839-2586 or develop@bgsu.edu.

Making a gift

To take part in the "Take a Seat" Wolfe Center for the Arts campaign, please print and complete this order form and return to the following address:

BGSU Foundation, Inc.
Mileti Alumni Center
Attn: Ann Hoyt
136 N. Mercer
Bowling Green, Ohio 43403-0055

More about the Wolfe Center for the Arts

The building has been designed by the acclaimed architectural firm Snøhetta, of Oslo, Norway, to be a landmark facility for the arts. The firm, known for its design of cultural buildings such as the World Trade Center Museum at Ground Zero and the Norwegian National Opera House, will create a contemporary new home for the arts at BGSU. The Department of Theatre and Film will be housed in the center.

The Wolfe Center for the Arts will contain two magnificent performance and teaching spaces: the Thomas and Kathleen Donnell Theatre and the Actors Theatre.

The Donnell Theatre features a classic and impressive curved auditorium space, which provides a dramatic, yet intimate setting for large-scale stagings of plays, musicals, and opera. The Actors Theatre, designed to allow for multiple configurations of seating, will provide the ideal experimental working space for young actors and directors. Both theatres, outfitted by the international theatre consultant firm Theatre Projects, will be equipped with state-of-the-art technology (orchestra lift, lighting, sound and curtains).