The University of the Arts
The University of the Arts is the nation’s first and only university dedicated to the visual, performing and communication arts. Its 2,300 students are enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs in Dance, Music, Theater Arts, Animation, Crafts, Digital Video, Film, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Painting/Drawing, Photography, Printmaking/Book Arts, Sculpture, Communication, Multimedia, Writing for Film and TV, Museum Studies and Art Education. Its history as a leader in educating creative individuals spans more than 130 years.
UArts campus in the heart of Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts is composed of 10 buildings that stretch from Walnut Street to South Street, including Dorrance Hamilton Hall, Terra Hall, Anderson Hall, Merriam Theater, Gershman Hall, Arts Bank, and the Pine Street, Spruce Street, Furness and Juniper Hall student residencies.
Primary exhibition and performance spaces include the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Hamilton and Arronson Galleries, Richard C. von Hess Illustration Gallery, Sol Mednick Gallery, Merriam Theater, Arts Bank, Black Box Theater, Levitt Auditorium, UArts Dance Theater, and Solmssen Court.
UArts also offers education opportunities for young artists to explore new directions and develop skills under the guidance of experienced faculty. Programs include Saturday Arts Lab, weekend visual arts classes for primary school students; Pre-College Saturday School, weekend classes in visual arts, media and writing for secondary school students; and Pre-College Summer Institute, college-level summer courses in visual, performing, media and communication arts for high school students.
The UArts Center for Continuing Studies offers classes in a wide variety of subjects and formats designed to meet the needs and schedules of students. Programs include Continuing Education weekend and evening professional development and personal enrichment courses and workshops. The Professional Institute for Educators (PIE) offers a full program of non-matriculated graduate-level credit courses for teachers interested in continuing their education.
The University of the Arts has unveiled plans for the construction of the 22,000-square-foot Skyline Performing Arts Center on the 16th and 17th floors of the University's Terra Hall at the corner of South Broad and Walnut streets along the Avenue of the Arts. Philadelphia's only performing and visual arts center with a view of the city's evolving horizon, the Skyline Performing Arts Center will feature a 250-seat recital hall, 100-seat blackbox theater, two exhibition galleries and several visual art display spaces, which will present unprecedented opportunities for synergies among the University's visual and performing arts programs.
The University of the Arts Terra Building
211 South Broad Street
Venues:
Connelly Lecture Hall, 8th floor
The Skyline Performing Arts Center, 16th and 17th floors (in development)
Sol Mednick Gallery, 15th floor
Gallery 1401, 14th floor
Multimedia Gallery, 12th floor
The University of the Arts Dorrance Hamilton Hall
320 South Broad Street
Venues:
The University of the Arts CBS Auditorium
The University of the Arts Arronson Gallery
The University of the Arts Hamilton Gallery
Gallery One
The University of the Arts Anderson Hall
333 South Broad Street
Venues:
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, 1st floor
Richard C. von Hess Illustration Gallery, 7th Floor
Gallery 817, 8th floor
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