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Interior Design Students Work With Historic Woodward Theater

Students seated in the historic Woodward Theatre during their site visit.

Interior Design Students Work With Historic Woodward Theater

Third-year students enrolled in Interior Design Studio V, a course taught by Gibbs College of Architecture lecturer Rick Skaggs, are working on interior design proposals for the historic Woodward Theater in Woodward, Oklahoma.

Interior design students seated at tables during their site visit to Woodward Theatre.

The studio project is a partnership with the Institute for Quality Communities, the Woodward Arts Theater and the Josie Adams Cultural Center.

The original building was constructed in 1929 and is on the National Register of Historic Buildings.

Students viewing the upper balcony section of the historic Woodward Theatre.

Images provided by Rick Skaggs


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