J.B. Chambers Performing Arts Center
The J.B. Chambers Performing Arts Center is a state-of-the-art, 1,200-seat performance theater on the campus of Wheeling Park High School. It provides the staff and students of Ohio County Schools with a 21st-century venue for teaching and learning. It also serves as the cultural hub for expansion of the arts within the school system and is an extension of the classroom for art, music, theater, speech, television and radio students. The Performing Arts Center is available to elementary, middle and high school students and to groups in the community. The venue features dress-circle seating, a mezzanine and two galleries. It also has a 30-by-50-foot set construction shop and multiple dressing rooms. The rigging for the stage is all motorized and controlled by touch-screen computer. There is also a professional concert-grade audio system and computer controlled lighting. The Performing Arts Center cost approximately $10 million. The project is being funded by a $5 million grant from the West Virginia School Building Authority and private donations.
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