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The Arts Come Alive at UChicago at Alive Come Arts The Whether major you in the arts, philosophy, or molecular engineering, at UChicago can you take advantage of hundreds of artistic groups, activities, and events on campus regardless of your field of study. As a arts the specialization, professional or endeavor, cultural outlet, social here know no bounds. Diana H.

With a strong tradition of Whether you’re a Cinema and Media UChicago Careers in Journalism, cross-disciplinary practices mixed Studies major or a physics student Arts, and Media prepares students with intellectual curiosity and with a penchant for painting, you for a life in the arts after college. creative energy, the University can pursue your artistic passion Open to students of all majors, fosters a bustling arts community. here through UChicago’s incredible this program provides internships, Students can pursue their artistic diversity of on-campus arts offerings: mentorships, and apprenticeships passions through majors and where students can work one-on- minors like: n 60 student-run arts-related one with established artists and organizations build their professional networks n n Architectural Studies 35+ theatrical productions while still in the College. staged by approximately Past placements include: n Art History 500 students annually n Cinema and Media Studies n  More than 150 faculty members n Paramount Pictures n Creative Writing in the arts n The Paris Review n Music n Dozens of world-class n New York Philharmonic n T heater and Performance performances and exhibitions n The New Republic Studies on campus at , n WBEZ (Chicago Public Radio) n Visual Arts the Smart Museum, and the n Mark Morris Dance Group

Pictured: The Logan Cabaret series Pictured: A student DJ at UChicago’s Pictured: University Theater produces over offers a platform for individual artists student-run radio station, WHPK, 35 shows a year. Featured here is Proof, by and groups to take the stage in the state- broadcasting live across Chicago Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright David of-the-art Logan Center for the Arts. since 1968. Auburn, AB’91. Photo by Jason Smith engage Photo by Jason Smith play Photo by Jason Smith advance with a robust arts curriculum with a community of artists your career in the arts

Our world-renowned arts faculty Some of the greatest art in the The has includes Pulitzer Prize winners and world is created and housed launched the careers of a century Guggenheim Fellows, composers collaborate in the city of Chicago, right at explore of great artists in all fields. succeed of international acclaim, and with a world-class faculty your fingertips. UChicago a city of opportunities These alumni have transformed alongside great alumni contemporary visual artists who students have unprecedented their fields in thought and are making an imprint on the art access to this art through the practice, winning Pulitzers, world. They include: Arts Pass, providing them with Emmys, Oscars, and Tonys along free and discounted visits to the way. Here are just a few: n William Pope.L, acclaimed over 70 partner institutions, interdisciplinary artist and including: n Kurt Vonnegut, AM’71 associate professor in the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Department of Visual Arts n n Katherine Dunham, PhB’36 n Wu Hung, celebrated art n Museum of Contemporary Art dance pioneer historian and director of the n Steppenwolf Theatre n Philip Glass, AB’56 Center for the Art of East Asia n The Second City groundbreaking composer n Theaster Gates, professor in n Lyric Opera n Kimberly Peirce, AB’90 the Department of Visual Arts n Chicago Symphony Orchestra director of Boys Don’t Cry and former director of Arts n DuSable Museum of African and the remake of Carrie and Public Life American History n Na tional Museum of Mexican Art Pictured: Augusta Read Thomas, former Pictured: Color Jam, a public art installation Pictured: Balloon fashions designed by composer-in-residence with the Chicago by Jessica Stockholder, chair of UChicago’s physics major Willie Chyr, AB’09, whose Symphony Orchestra and current University Department of Visual Arts, transformed work has been featured in a major national Professor of Composition in the Department a downtown Chicago intersection into an ad campaign. of Music and the College. explosion of color. Photo by Lloyd DeGrane Photo by Jason Smith Photo by Jason Smith of his or her major. her or his of availablecreativity regardless to every undergraduate, for acatalyst is It scholarship. and arts for environment collaborative adynamic, create to spaces exhibition and performance, practice, studio, classroom, integrates building the Tsien, Billie and Tod Williams center at the University of Chicago. Designed by renowned architects arts multidisciplinary the is Arts the for Center Logan David Reva and The Nexus of Creative Practice and Inquiry ARTS THE FOR CENTER LOGAN DAVID AND REVA Screening Room 2 LEVEL Performance Labfor Theater 5 LEVEL Visual ArtsClassroom 6 LEVEL Performance Labfor Dance 7 LEVEL Terrace SeminarRoom 8 LEVEL Performance Penthouse 9 LEVEL DelGiorno Deck 10 LEVEL Theater East (fixed seat) Theater West (blackbox) Performance Hall Exhibition Gallery 1 LEVEL

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