The Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts is a 104,000-square foot facility renowned for its outstanding acoustics and attractive design. The building cost $60.9 million, with construction beginning in May 2000. The first event, a concert by the San Francisco Symphony, took place in October 2002. The facility includes two performance venues supported by a full complement of performance, production support space, and reception areas: Barbara K. and W. Turrentine Jackson Hall is a 1,800-seat performance hall and the Larry and Rosalie Vanderhoef Studio Theater is a versatile space for up to 250 people designed to host dance and choral performances, lectures, banquets, arts education programs, and theater productions.
The Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts is named in honor of the distinguished California winemaker and his wife, who made a $35 million gift to UC Davis. A portion of the gift, $10 million, was earmarked for the Center. The remaining $25 million funded the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science. In March of 2001, Barbara K. Jackson donated $5 million to the Center. The 1,800-seat main hall was then named the Barbara K. and W. Turrentine Jackson Hall, in honor of Jackson and her late husband, a former UC Davis history professor. The studio theatre was named the Larry and Rosalie Vanderhoef Studio Theatre in August of 2009 when Larry Vanderhoef completed his tenure as the UC Davis Chancellor. The naming was a tribute Larry's vision and steadfast leadership and to Rosalie's deep commitment to arts education for both young people and adults.
Illuminate. Educate. Connect.
Donations to the general fund will help us bring exciting artists from around the globe to our region. Your support will also enable us to continue our work with our community's youth, and people of all ages, who count on our arts education and outreach programs. The Mondavi Center counts on community support to ensure future performances and programs. The Mondavi Center only receives a portion of its budget from ticket sales and must raise roughly $1.5 million annually in contributed funds. Your support will help us achieve our goals.
Mondavi Center Arts Education is committed to providing the best opportunities for students of all ages to experience and appreciate the performing arts. We have designed culturally intensive educational programs for grades K-12 to meet the California Common Core State Standards and Visual and Performing Arts State Standards, and to open the classroom to the creative and imaginative process. For adults, our goal is to inspire the sensibilities and intellectual curiosity that sustain a fully engaged life. Through exposure to live performance and lively participation, we seek to ensure that the arts remain an integral part of our community's rich inheritance.
The Mondavi Center has earned a reputation for making artists sound and look their best. Maintaining the highest-quality technologies is critical to this capacity and allows us to support the continually evolving media that bring artistic stories to life.
Organization name
Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis
Mission Category
Arts, Culture & Humanities
Operating Budget
$5,000,001-$10 million
Organization Need
Funding: Unrestricted, Funding: Program, Technology
Address
One Shields Ave