The Johnnie A. Rowe Promenade is protected from the outdoors by glass, but artwork can readily be seen without even entering the building. As buses of school children arrive, students will be deposited in front of this inviting entrance. As they walk into the grand hall, itself a total of 2,225 square feet of open space, half will be directed to the right, half to the left. Children directed to the left will proceed immediately into the Children's Gallery. It is a long rectangular room of 4,000 square feet.
Art is hung appropriately at kid's eye-level.
Then students continue to the new children's art classrooms. In these classrooms they will be able to create take-home art projects based on the exhibition they have just seen. Of particular interest here is a children's ceramics studio, completely equipped with twelve electric kid-sized pottery wheels. The other half of the group will be directed to the right. This is the way to the new black box theater which seats 150.