Arts & Culture

A group of women playing instruments together on stage.

‘A Melting Pot of Music’ Comes to Jorgensen

WOMEN OF AMERICANA: A Celebration of American Music comes to Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on April 11

A woman holding out two puppets of a bird and a sheep

Senior’s Retelling of Folktales Headed to Stage

'There’s something exhilarating about having a script out and watching the actors play and work with it. There have been times I’ve forgotten that I had anything to do with writing it'

The Cabin at Walden Pond, famous pond in Concord, Massachusetts

Rebooting Thoreau for Modern Times: New PBS Documentary Features UConn Expertise

Reintroducing the pioneering writer-scientist, whose influence and relevance carries forward through the centuries

A woman poses at a table with six books.

Children’s Book Author, Soon-To-Be Grad Sees Value in Experience

Having grown up in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, Luisana Duarte Armendáriz ’26 Ph.D. straddled the line between languages, cultures, and national borders

A woman sitting in a chair and a man sitting on the floor in front of her both hold violins.

Jorgensen to Host Music All-Stars from Across the Celtic World

The musical showcase will come to the Jorgensen stage on Friday, March 6 at 8 p.m.

The band THE SEVEN WONDERS: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac posing together.

A Fleetwood Mac Tribute, 50 Years After Recording of UConn Performance

THE SEVEN WONDERS: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac comes to Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, February 14, at 8 p.m. 

A man in a black sweatshirt and purple shirt stands in front of a pair of canvas oil paintings.

More Than Disease: Art Major with Goal of Becoming MD Humanizes Patients on Canvas

‘People make this crazy distinction between art and science, but they’re really just two sides of the same coin to me’

A Renaissance painting of animals and a group of people, many scantily clothed.

UConn Faculty, Alum Help Bring Story of Tortured Renaissance Composer to Life

'Death of Gesualdo,' which premieres in the U.S. on Feb. 13 in New York City, is being staged as a tableau vivant, in which the actors strike poses to tell a story

two men playing cello

‘I Get to Be an Artist’

First-year prosthodontics resident blends music and dentistry

An abstract sculpture made of objects found along the beach, whether natural like quartz and oyster or man-made like plastic water bottles.

Long Island Sound Exhibition at AVS Gallery Highlights Its Beauty, History, Sense of Home

'Sight and Sound: Artists Consider Long Island Sound' comes to UConn thanks to support from the Connecticut Sea Grant Arts Support Awards Program