Building Imagination Center, A New Art Gallery and Cinema Partnership with CSU Stanislaus, Announces Opening Schedule

The Building Imagination Center — a partnership between the Building Imagination Initiative, California State University (CSU), Stanislaus and the Modesto Art Museum — has announced the schedule of events for its mid-September opening.

• Sept. 15, 2012: Starting point for a one-hour guided tour of downtown Modesto modernist buildings, as part of the Modesto International Architecture Festival (Beginning at 10:30 a.m.).

• Sept. 18, 2012: CSU Stanislaus assistant professor Dr. Staci Gem Scheiwiller explores the mingling of traditions that created Islamic architecture, in a lecture entitled “Architectural Hybridities: Pagan, Christian, Islamic, or all the above?” (Beginning at 7:30 p.m.).

• Sept. 20, 2012: Guests welcomed during Modesto’s Third Thursday Art Walk.

The events are free and open to the public.