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Please join us as we honor Fay Jones and celebrate our new name! To explore Fay’s legacy as a designer and teacher, we’ve planned a symposium, lecture, documentary film premier, exhibitions and guided tours of his work. With plenty of gatherings both formal and informal, we’re going to make history and have fun.

Friday, April 3

1:00 – 4:00 p.m. 
Symposium, Light Seeking Shade: The Architecture of Fay Jones, with Robert Ivy, Editor-in-Chief, Architectural Record; Robert McCarter, Ruth Norman Moore Professor of Architecture, Washington University; & Roy Reed, Professor Emeritus of Journalism, University of Arkansas
Arkansas Union Ballroom

5:00 p.m.       
Registration/All-School Barbeque
In front of Vol Walker Hall (rain location 2nd floor gallery of Vol Walker Hall)

7:00 p.m.
Inaugural Fay Jones School of Architecture Lecture
by Glenn Murcutt, 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate
& 2009 AIA Gold Medal Honoree
Arkansas Union Ballroom

Saturday, April 4

2:00 p.m.        
Formal Dedication of School’s New Name
In front of Vol Walker Hall (rain location 2nd floor gallery of Vol Walker Hall)

3:30 – 4:30 p.m.    
Premier of Sacred Spaces: The Architecture of Fay Jones,
a documentary by University of Arkansas journalism professors
Larry Foley and Dale Carpenter
Giffels Auditorium, Old Main

7:00 p.m.       
Celebration Banquet
UARK Bowl
Semi-formal evening honoring Alumni Design Award winners, John G. Williams Fellows, Ernie Jacks Contributors, and other distinguished awards

Sunday, April 5

10:00 a.m.    
Bus Tour of Fay Jones’ Fayetteville projects led by his former partner, Maurice Jennings   
Meet in front of Memorial Hall