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$20 Million Gift From Mitchells to Create Center for Arts at UH
Tuesday, July 7, 2003, 11:00 a.m.

A $20 million gift from George and Cynthia Woods Mitchell to the University of Houston will fund the creation of a program that will attract elite artists and scholars to UH and establish the university as an international force for education in the arts.

Pending approval by the UH System Board of Regents in August, the program will be named the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston. Cynthia Woods Mitchell attended UH in the 1940s.

$20 Million Gift Announcement - Run time: 2:02 minutes

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