Arts & Culture

People raise their hands in the air at a rock concert

This Is Your Brain On Music: Groundbreaking UConn-led Study Shows How the Brain Keeps the Beat

'Neural resonance theory' offers new way to understand how the brain transforms sound into music

Matthew Isaac Cohen, professor of dramatic arts, at the Puppet Arts Complex

Guggenheim Fellow from UConn Preserving Wayang Puppetry for Posterity

'This is a generous award that puts me into some remarkable company. If you look back at the people in my field who have received a Guggenheim, it’s a ‘who’s who’ of American theater'

Portrait of Christopher Sancomb in the Materials Library

Seeing Is Believing: UConn’s Materials Library Helps Student Researchers Weigh Options

The library houses a collection of raw, manufactured, and reclaimed materials from all over the world that go into the built environment around us

Red handprints and paint splatter over a blue and yellow background, the colors of the Ukrainian flag, with the words '!Stop War!' in the center, featuring black line drawings of human hands pulling at the borders of the country and a flying dove.

Babbidge Library Exhibit Offers Powerful Images of War, and Hope, Created by Ukrainian Children

"Children Draw War, Not Flowers" will be on display at the Homer Babbidge Library through August 1

A man and a woman, the members of Watchhouse, posing together.

Redefined American Roots Music with Watchhouse at Jorgensen Center

A grassroots success story driven by poignant songwriting

The singing group Chanticleer stand in a line, against a dark background.

An Orchestra of Voices Performs at Jorgensen Center

Grammy-Winning Chanticleer, with UConn Alum Jared Graveley, comes to campus on April 9

A multicolored picture of an art collage that includes handmade doilies and other items.

Art Exhibition No ‘Joke’ in Asking Hard Questions

'Joker Stardust,' on display March 27-30, started as a critique of consumerism inspired by the 1980s but eventually morphed into a multilayered project focused on the 1960s and 1970s that asks the question, 'Who am I?'

A man holding a banjo.

An Evening of Contemporary Bluegrass with Noam Pikelny & Friends at Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts

Pikelny has emerged as the preeminent banjoist of his generation

Data-infused photo of a woman with bright, vibrant colors surrounding her

Influence of Technology, Science Shapes Latest Show at Contemporary Art Galleries

'Data Infused' includes works from artists who’ve studied subjects including computer science, architecture, graphic design, and artificial intelligence, all of which have influenced their creative outputs

Minnie Negoro uses a potter's wheel during a ceramics course on December 5, 1967. (Courtesy of UConn Archives and Special Collections).

Benton Exhibit Honors Minnie Negoro, Pioneering UConn Ceramics Professor

UConn historians curated the exhibit to honor Negoro's impact on the University and her personal experience with a dark chapter of American history — the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII