The new ART Lab will be part of the Tache Arts Complex.

Future students will have new places to live, learn and grow as the U of M refurbishes historic buildings and constructs new ones under Project Domino, which will transform several facilities on the Fort Garry campus. The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company has committed $325,000 to Project Domino – a gift that follows an earlier donation in 2008 of $75,000 to the same project. Wawanesa’s gift will go to the construction of the Tache Arts Complex and the Pembina Hall Student Residence Building Fund.

Construction began in the spring on the modern undergraduate student residence in place of one that is nearly 100 years old. The new facility will enhance the student experience along with the university’s ability to attract the most promising students both, nationally and internationally. The Pembina Hall Residence development is an important first step in Project Domino, enabling Taché Hall Residence to be repurposed as the new home for the School of Art and the Marcel A. Desaultels Faculty of Music. Students will move into the new residence in the fall of 2011, at which time construction of the Tache Arts Complex will begin at the site of the current residence.