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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.

Make Jazz Trill Again musician Melanie Charles

Now in Residence: Make Jazz Trill Again

For the 2026–2027 academic year, the Center for the Arts welcomes Make Jazz Trill Again as our partner in developing a series of performances, workshops, and outside-the-box curriculum to explore jazz as a communal language of trust-building across differences—a genre rooted in Black culture and a civic project of fostering relationships across generations and discovering new ways to be in resonance with each other.

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