Arts center in Orono names lobby for donor

ORONO – When people return to the former Maine Center for the Arts after its reopening as the Collins Center early next year, they will enter a lobby named for the Hannaford Charitable Foundation.

The foundation made a $100,000 gift to the renovation of the Orono facility, which is designed as the region’s premier performing arts venue. An extensive $11 million expansion and remodeling began in 2007.

The entire building has been renamed for Richard R. and Anne A. Collins of Northport, UM graduates who made a $5 million donation to the project last year.

Arts programming has continued during the remodeling, with music, theater and other events presented at other UM facilities and at venues around Maine.

For more information visit www2.umaine.edu/mca.