Slow fundraising will delay Chazen expansion

Fundraising for the $35 million expansion of UW- Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art is lagging $10 million behind projections, delaying construction by at least two years – or, worst-case scenario, leaving its elaborate building plans uncertain.
When UW-Madison alumni Jerome and Simona Chazen donated $20 million to the former Elvehjem Museum of Art in May 2005, university administrators were confident that another $15 million for the facility’s 62,000- square-foot addition could be rounded up by this fall. To date only $5 million is “firmly committed,” said museum director Russell Panczenko.