VERO BEACH — The Vero Beach Museum of Art has raised $100 million toward a $126 million capital campaign to build a new facility and transform its campus, museum officials announced Friday alongside a groundbreaking ceremony.
The funds, collected during the campaign’s quiet phase from more than 112 donor households including individuals and foundations, will support an expanded home designed by Allied Works in collaboration with Unknown Studio Landscape Architecture & Urban Design. The project replaces the museum’s current one-story building with a 90,000-square-foot structure that doubles exhibition space to 22,000 square feet and adds 1.5 acres of green space, blending galleries, gardens, terraces and courtyards.
More than 200 civic leaders, supporters and stakeholders attended the groundbreaking, where speakers included Vero Beach Mayor John Cotugno, museum board chair Richard Segal and capital campaign committee chair Emily Sherwood…