Anne Dean Turk Fine Arts Center

The Anne Dean Turk Performing Arts Center also called the Anne Dean Turk Fine Arts Center is a performing arts venue and art museum located on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas. The center houses the Anne Dean Turk Art Gallery and the Van Cliburn Auditorium, and serves as the home for the college's visual and performing arts departments. It is also the primary venue for the professional Texas Shakespeare Festival. History The facility's primary performance space, the Van Cliburn Auditorium, was constructed in 1966. The building was originally known as the Applied Arts Building. On December 9, 1989, the building was renamed in honor of Anne Dean Turk, a distinguished faculty member who taught piano, music theory, and piano ensemble at Kilgore College from 1946 until her retirement in 1982. Turk was an alumna of The University of Texas at Austin , the Juilliard School , and Columbia University . During her tenure at Kilgore College, she founded a Piano Concerto Program that provided students.