On Thursday, Sept. 2, the Faulkner Performing Arts Center will hold an invitation-only memorial to honor the lives of Jim and Joyce Faulkner. Both Jim and Joyce leave behind a legacy of community support and accomplishments that will be felt for generations to come.

At the U of A, the Faulkners were ardent supporters of students, programs and facilities on campus, including Garvan Woodland Gardens, the Chancellor's Society, the Wallace W. and Jama M. Fowler House, the Joyce and James H. Faulkner Band Scholarship, the Faulkner Family Chancellor's Scholarship Fund and — most notably — the Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center.

Completed in 2015, the Faulkner Center is a world-class performance venue that is 39,400 square feet in size and seats 587 people. It can also accommodate up to 250 performers at once on its stage. The center was named for Jim and Joyce Faulkner in recognition of the couple's major gift to the project, which was a renovation of the U of A's old Field House.

Thanks to the Faulkners, the center is now the main performance venue for the U of A's Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and its Department of Music, and each year it hosts a diverse range of guest musical activities for the university and the Northwest Arkansas community. A musical tribute will be held from 7:15 to 7:45 p.m. at the Faulkner Center and will be livestreamed for the public on the Faulkner Performing Arts Center YouTube channel.