“Make As You Are” Events
Wesleyan students who are part of the Center for the Arts’ Director’s Council, which gives students hands-on experience in arts leadership, host a series of novice-friendly, interdisciplinary “Make As You Are” workshops for unconventional engagement, providing an open opportunity for creativity and material exploration. The purpose of the series is to lower the barrier of entry to the arts, bring together different disciplines, and create new forms of community among students.
Learn more about upcoming “Make As You Are” events.
2025
October February
2025
October
Fries Arts Building Opening Celebration
Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 2:00pm
Fries Arts Building, 56 Hamlin Street, Middletown, Connecticut
Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 2:00pm
Fries Arts Building, 56 Hamlin Street, Middletown, Connecticut
Join us for an open house and dance party to celebrate the new Fries Arts Building (FAB), an expanded home for the arts at Wesleyan University. While the FAB’s most important function is to offer teaching space, for this one day, the Director’s Council (a student-led committee that works closely with the Director of Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts) will turn the FAB on its head. Today, the theater becomes a concert stage, the dance studio becomes an art gallery, and the drawing and design studios host beginner-friendly arts activities for all ages!
February
“Make As You Are” Event: Breakup/Breakdown [NEW TIME]
Friday, February 14, 2025 at 3:00pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Friday, February 14, 2025 at 3:00pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Wesleyan students in the Center for the Arts Director’s Council lead a “Make As You Are” event that experiments with language and electronic music as attendees write love poems that will be remixed into a score that fills the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery with fragments of love, longing, and heartbreak.