Explore the Arts at Penn
Making the arts at Penn visible and accessible to all
Arthur Ross Gallery
The Arthur Ross Gallery reaches across disciplines to engage faculty, students, artists, and the public in its multicultural exhibitions. Its outstanding programs and elementary outreach, Engaging Minds through Art, serve the University, Philadelphia and the region.
Center for Experimental Ethnography
CEE understands that sometimes the most transformative experiences come through an encounter with a film, a performance, a poem, or a soundscape. CEE is committed to supporting these forms of knowledge production by promoting ethical, engaged, and experimental multi-modal research that is generated ethnographically.
Kelly Writers House
Kelly Writers House links writers and readers from across the country and around the world. Through its many programs and projects, the Writers House promotes the full range of contemporary literature, addressing writing both as a practice and as an object of study.
Morris Arboretum & Gardens
Morris Arboretum & Gardens at UPenn inspires an understanding of the relationship between plants, people, and place through education, research, and horticultural display.
Institute for Contemporary Art
ICA is a launchpad for contemporary art and ideas, and a place of possibility. Creating transformative experiences with art across disciplines and encouraging bold experimentation, deep connection, and boundless curiosity among artists and audiences alike.
Penn Art Collection
The University of Pennsylvania Art Collection includes over 8,000 artworks acquired during the past 250 years and includes painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, and decorative arts. Penn’s Art Collection is intended for the enrichment of all, and its public installation enhances the daily experience of Arts at Penn ecosystem.
Penn Libraries
The Penn Libraries partners with communities at Penn and beyond to produce, preserve, and provide access to knowledge. Together we build dynamic resources, tools, and expertise that inspire critical inquiry and creative expression.
Penn Live Arts
As the University of Pennsylvania’s home for the performing arts, Penn Live Arts connects diverse audiences with visionary artists and innovative ideas, engaging both the University and the greater Philadelphia community in transformative artistic experiences.
Penn Museum
Home to over a million artifacts, the Penn Museum has been uncovering our shared humanity across continents and millennia since 1887. In bridging archaeology with anthropology, they chart a course for finding one’s own place in the arc of human history.
Platt Student Performing Arts House
Committing to the learning and development of Penn’s 70+ student performing arts groups through trainings, workshops, masterclasses, and career mentorship.
Public Trust
A volunteer network of individuals at Penn and Philadelphia come together around a vision, working with artists, communities, and institutions to develop projects that encouraged inclusiveness, advocacy, and the sharing of knowledge.
The Rotunda
A community-gathering place that is fueled by the belief that art is a catalyst for social change and that the arts can lead to the formation of meaningful partnerships between Penn and surrounding neighborhoods.
Sachs Program for Arts Innovation
The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation provides grants and other forms of strategic support to artists, faculty, cultural centers, students, and other arts advocates at the University of Pennsylvania. Our mission is to ensure that the arts at Penn are valued and embraced as a creative catalyst, driving innovation, inspiration, and action.
WXPN 88.5 FM Radio
WXPN is a nationally recognized leader in Triple A programming and the premier guide for discovering new and significant artists in rock, blues, roots, and folk.
Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts
The Arts at Penn cultivate individual voices while acting as a powerful vehicle for collaboration, civic engagement, and world-making.
We commit to developing and strengthening the infrastructure for arts on campus, to expanding and articulating the pathways for arts involvement and careers, and to deepening engagement in the Arts at Penn through increasing visibility of the work on campus and in the community.