Events & exhibitions

Fall Preview

Learn about the many ways to experience the Arts at Penn in the 2026-27 season

Fall Preview

Explore the arts ecosystem

Through creative, interpretive, and integrative practices and methods, we challenge ourselves to discover new insights, develop innovations, and foster inclusive places of belonging.

Penn Museum

From groundbreaking excavations to ongoing innovation.

Collar, Native North America Gallery

Penn Art Collection

The Penn Art Collection includes over 8,000 artworks acquired during the past 250 years.

Rui Rui , Penn Art Collection

Platt Student Performing Arts House

Advising and training students pursuing their extracurricular passions for the performing arts.

Platt Student Performing Arts House

Institute for Contemporary Art

ICA is a launchpad for contemporary art and ideas, and a place of possibility.

Penn Student Clubs

Clubs engaged in social, political, artistic, and multicultural activities that put learning into practice.

Penn Student Clubs

Penn Live Arts

Leading innovative experiences and a vital resource for the performing arts at the University of Pennsylvania.

Martha Graham Dance Company

Arthur Ross Gallery

The Arthur Ross Gallery reaches across disciplines to engage faculty, students, artists, and the public.

The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation

Ensuring that the Arts at Penn are valued and embraced as a creative catalyst, driving innovation, inspiration, and action.

Sam Maitin

Kelly Writers House

Serves as a center for writers of all kinds from Penn and the Philadelphia region.

Kelly Writers House Arts Cafe

Academic departments

Encompassing the full range of creative practices and the academic disciplines that interpret their histories, meanings, and methods.

2023 CDI Cohort members including, from left to right: Ricardo O. Howell (Academic Affairs), Corine Labridy (FIGS), and Lisa Ann Britton (FIGS) in conversation