Notre Dame’s Catholic mission enables the exploration of the relationship between the arts and the sacred with greater range and freedom than is possible at most universities. A new building for the Department of Art, Art History, and Design, along with additional faculty hires, will enable the interdisciplinary study of and participation in the richness of Catholicism’s two millennia of thought and practice concerning religion and the arts and will provide a much-needed home for the practice of design-thinking for good.