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Austin Arts Center
The Austin Arts Center was built in 1964 and houses many of Trinity's performance-based departments and spaces, namely the Music Department, the Theater and Dance departments, Goodwin Theater, Garmany Hall (a blackbox theater), and the Widener Gallery (a space for rotating exhibits and art performances). The Center also houses recording studios, classrooms, studio arts rooms, music labs, and a costume shop.
The theater was named in honor of A. Everett Austin Jr., the founder of Trinity's Fine Arts Department and the director of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford from 1927 until 1945. In 1930, Trinity awarded Austin an honorary Master of Arts degree. Thirty-five years later, President Albert C. Jacobs felt Austin's contributions to art, music, and drama in the Hartford area deserved recognition.