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Explore the Arts at Penn

Making the arts at Penn visible and accessible to all

Exhibition of work by artist Barbara Earl Thomas in the Arthur Ross Gallery

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.

Film Childhood's Noon by David Shepard, Mark Blum

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 Arts Cafe

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

Morris Arboretum & Gardens at UPenn inspires an understanding of the relationship between plants, people, and place through education, research, and horticultural display.

ICA Building summer 2025

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.

Black Forest (Polyhedron Forms), ca. 1977, Steel

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.

Fisher Fine Arts Library

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.

Martha Graham Dance Company

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, Eastern Mediterranean Gallery

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

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, Forum on Sacred Lands

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.

Student performers, The Rotunda

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.

Sam Maitin

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.

Free At Noon Concert

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.

Get in touch with our team.