Another structure named for members of the James Hyde Porter family, the Fine Arts Building was completed in 1956. It houses the largest auditorium in the midstate with a 1,129-seat capacity, and serves as a cultural center for the campus and community. In addition to classrooms and music and theatre studios, it is home to the college’s Division of Fine Arts.

In 1984, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the late Robert Shaw presented a celebration concert in honor of the inauguration of the college’s 22nd president, Robert K. Ackerman.

The Goodwyn-Candler-Panoz Organ is one of the largest pipe organs in the Southeast, with four manuals and six divisions, and 89 ranks totaling 4,932 pipes. Originally built and installed in the home of the late Asa G. Candler, Jr., of Atlanta, it was presented to Wesleyan by Mr. Candler in honor of his wife. It was restored in 1989 by Elsie Lowden Maxwell Hambright of the Class of 1934, in memory of her grandmother, Belle Pound Goodwyn of the Class of 1874.

The Grassmann-Porter Studio Theatre, an intimate, flexible “black-box” studio for theatre and dance productions, opened in 1994 through the generous support of the Grassmann Trust and the Porter Family Foundation.

The Cowles Myles Collier Art Galleries were established by the late Mrs. Georgie Comer Collier in memory of her father, whose paintings hang in the West Gallery along with other works from Wesleyan’s permanent collections. (For more on the collections, see Wesleyan Magazine, Spring 1999.) The East Gallery houses traveling, faculty, and student exhibitions.

In the stairwell can be found two important Wesleyan artifacts -- gilded pier mirrors (gifts of the Napier family of Macon) that once hung in Wesleyan’s original downtown building and are too tall for any other space on the present campus. Student legend has it that the resident campus ghost, “Rosemary,” can be detected in the mirror in the West stairwell.