The Pool Art Center, a 23,000 sq. ft. former Coca-Cola warehouse located on the southeast edge of the campus, serves as the hub for the Art and Art History department.

The building was extensively refurbished to produce a near-custom designed space for art education. It includes two galleries; a teaching theatre equipped with the latest technology; faculty offices; and studios and teaching spaces to support student painters, drawers, photographers, graphic and digital designers, ceramic artists and sculptors.

The center was named through a gift from Earl Pool in honor of his sister, Drury trustee Mary Jane Pool ’46, and in memory of his wife, Barbara Spencer Pool, and his parents Earl and Dorothy Pool. Earl Pool, of Cave Creek, Ariz., is a retired executive of Procter and Gamble.