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Artists

Each year, visiting artists collaborate with the Center for the Arts through residencies, research, and interdisciplinary projects that expand creative practice across campus.

Dancer moving under large sheet with other people lying on floor and sitting against back wall - mobile version
Dancer moving under large sheet with other people lying on floor and sitting against back wall

At the core of the Center for the Arts' programming is our partnership with visiting artists. Together, we create opportunities to incubate new work and expand existing practices, while building new knowledge alongside faculty, students, and staff who collaborate with us on creative research in and outside of the classroom.

People lying on floor with dancer moving among them under suspended white sheet

Now in Residence: mayfield brooks

mayfield brooks is a movement-based performance artist who Improvises While Black. Their work explores grief, ancestry, ecological interdependence, and the politics of refusal. As the 2025–26 Artist in Residence, brooks will develop new interdisciplinary projects in partnership with students and faculty, including workshops, performances, and public conversations that center somatic knowledge and radical presence.

Experience Artist-Driven Programming

Each semester, the Center for the Arts presents a wide range of public events shaped by our visiting artists. These include exhibitions, performances, salons, open rehearsals, and conversations. Events are designed to foster dialogue and make creative practice accessible to all.
Three artists sitting in front of an audience seen from behind in a room with windows, fireplace, television screen, and bookshelves