The Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts will relinquish its space on Pacheco Street and some of its remaining collection of Native art to the Institute of American Indian Arts by the end of the year.

The tribal college will use the two buildings to bolster its graduate program offerings, providing office, classroom and exhibition space for the college to establish a Master of Fine Arts campus in the midtown location.

The remaining art collection will be shared between that new campus and the college's Rancho Viejo campus, according to a Monday news release from the college.

“ Essentially, we're giving everything away. From our financial assets, to the campus — to the collection itself,” said Rachel Wixom, a niece of Ralph "Ted" Coe and head of the nonprofit center since its inception.

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