A Tour of City High's Fine Arts Wing: Getting Closer and Closer to Completion

It's a bit surreal for Assistant Principal Terry Coleman, but a project that took several years to plan and gain approval from the Iowa City School Board is nearing completion.

Coleman said that progress is going well enough on the wing that they should be able to move some students to the space in May, allowing work to be done on the remodelling of the existing performance and theater space, which will be done in synch with the completion of the performance wing.

He said the goal of the new performance spaces (the choral room, the orchestra room, and the band recital room shown in the video above) was to create more performance and practice space for music programs that had long outgrown their own performance areas, while also improving storage for theater supplies, instruments, and marching band uniforms.

"Those three things were the things were trying to achieve with this addition and think we accomplished that," Coleman said.

According to Coleman, the development of the performance spaces was approved with an eye toward maximizing acoustic quality, with insulation to separate the sound of performance spaces from each other, and design decisions came with the input of the fine arts staff.

The fine arts wing is slated for its grand opening this coming fall school year.