Possible New Buyer for Fisk University's Art Collection

From Diverse Online Higher Education News and Jobs Current News Wal-Mart Heiress Makes Bid For Fisk University’s Art By Reginald Stuart Sep 6, 2007, 04:53 Fisk University’s campaign to raise funds by selling key parts of its prized art collection has attracted a new suitor with a new approach – Alice Walton, the billionaire daughter of the late Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart stores. Walton, in a letter sent late last month to Tennessee Attorney General Robert E. Cooper Jr., proposed purchasing half interest in the collection for $30 million in exchange for allowing it to be housed at her new museum in Bentonville, Ark., for six months a year. It would be housed at Fisk for six months a year... Complete Story: Wal-Mart Heiress Makes Bid For Fisk University’s Art

An update: Fisk trustees OK $30M deal for art - Nashville, Tennessee - Tuesday, 09/25/07 - Tennessean.com