Penn gets $2.5 million donation for School of Design
The University of Pennsylvania has received a $2.5 million donation to support faculty and programs in its School of Design. The money will be used to raise the impact of the visual arts around Penn and the Philadelphia region, the school announced Monday.
The University of Pennsylvania has received a $2.5 million donation to support faculty and programs in its School of Design. The money will be used to raise the impact of the visual arts around Penn and the Philadelphia region, the school announced Monday.
The gift from alumni Keith L. Sachs and Katherine Stein Sachs will create a visiting professorship in the fine arts and also fund fine-arts programming.
As supporters of the fine arts, the Sachses previously established the Sachs Professorship in Contemporary Art in the Department of the History of Art, and the Sachs Guest Curator Program at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
Keith Sachs is chief executive officer of Saxco International L.L.C., a distributor of packaging material. At Penn, he serves as chairman of the School of Design board of overseers. Katherine Sachs is a member of the university board of trustees and the ICA board of overseers.