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Coordinates: 39°56′46″N 75°09′58″W / 39.946°N 75.166°W
| University of the Arts | |
| Established | 1870, 1876, 1985 |
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| Endowment | $44.9 million[1] |
| President | David Yager |
| Academic staff | 121 full time, 420 part time |
| Students | 1,900 |
| Location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Red White |
| Mascot | Unicorn |
| Website | http://www.uarts.edu |
The University of the Arts (UArts) is a university of visual and performing arts based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its campus makes up part of the Avenue of the Arts in Center City, Philadelphia. Dating back to the 1870s, it is one of the oldest schools of art or music in the United States.
The university is composed of two colleges and two Divisions: the College of Art, Media & Design, and the College of Performing Arts, as well as the Division of Liberal Arts and the Division of Continuing Studies. It is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. In addition, the College of Art, Media & Design is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, and the School of Music is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.[2]
History[]
The Dorrance Hamilton Hall in 2013
The university was created in 1985 by the merger of the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts and the Philadelphia College of Art, two schools that trace their origins to the 1870s.
In 1870, the Philadelphia Musical Academy was created, and in 1877 the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music was founded. In 1944, the Children's Dance Theatre, later known as the Philadelphia Dance Academy, was established by Nadia Chilkovsky Nahumck. In 1962, the Conservatory of Music and the Musical Academy merged, then, in 1976, the combined organization acquired the Dance Academy, and renamed itself the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts. After establishing a School of Theater in 1983, the institution became the first performing arts college in Pennsylvania to offer a comprehensive range of majors in music, dance and theater. This institution is now the College of Performing Arts of the University of the Arts.
In 1876, the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art was founded as a museum and art school. In 1938, the museum changed its name to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the school became the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art.[3] In 1964, the school became independent of the museum and renamed itself the Philadelphia College of Art.
In 1985, the Philadelphia College of Art and the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts merged to become the Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts, and gained university status as the University of the Arts in 1987. In 1996, the university added a third academic division, the College of Media and Communication, which merged with the College of Art and Design in 2011 to become the College of Art, Media & Design.
Academics[]
The University of the Arts' nearly 1,900 students are enrolled in 41 undergraduate and graduate programs in six schools: Art, Design, Film, Dance, Music and the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts. In addition, the university's Division of Continuing Studies offers courses through its Continuing Education, Pre-College, and Professional Institute for Educators programs.
College of Performing Arts
- Majors: Dance; Jazz Studies (Composition, Instrumental Performance, Vocal Performance); Music Business, Entrepreneurship + Technology; Acting; Musical Theater; Directing, Playwriting + Production; Theater Design + Technology
- Graduate programs: MFA in Devised Performance, MM in Jazz Studies, MM in Music Education, MAT in Music Education
College of Art, Media & Design
- Majors: Animation; Film + Animation; Photo + Film Media; Interdisciplinary Fine Arts; Craft + Material Studies; Design, Art + Technology; Film + Video; Advertising Design; Graphic Design; Illustration; Industrial Design; Photography; Film Design + Production
- Graduate programs: Art Education/Teaching, Book Arts + Printmaking, Crafts Post-Baccalaureate, MDes in Design for Social Impact, MDes in Product Design, Museum Studies (programs in Museum Communication, Museum Education, and Museum Exhibition Planning + Design: http://museumstudies.uarts.edu/, Studio Art
Division of Liberal Arts
- Majors: Creative Writing; Film + Media Studies; Writing for Film + Television
Facilities and collections[]
The university's campus, located in the Avenue of the Arts cultural district of Center City, Philadelphia, includes 10 buildings with more than 850,000 square feet (79,000 m2).
The Albert M. Greenfield Library houses 152,067 bound volumes, 6,936 CDs, 14,901 periodicals, 16,820 scores and 1965 videos and DVDs. The Music Library collection holds about 20,000 scores, 15,000 books, 10,000 LP discs, and 8,000 CDs. The Visual Resources Collection includes 175,000 slides. Additional university collections include the University Archives, the Picture File, the Book Arts and Textile Collections, and the Drawing Resource Center.
UArts' 10 galleries include one curated by students. Exhibitions have included the Quay Brothers, Vito Acconci, R. Crumb, Rosalyn Drexler, April Gornik, Alex Grey, James Hyde, Jon Kessler, Donald Lipski, Robert Motherwell, Stuart Netsky, Irving Penn, Jack Pierson, Anne and Patrick Poirier, Yvonne Rainer, Lenore Tawney and Andy Warhol.
The University of the Arts currently has seven theaters. The Levitt Auditorium in Gershman Hall is the largest on campus with a seating capacity of 850. Also in Gershman Hall is a black box theater used for student-run productions. The university's Arts Bank Theater seats 230, and the Laurie Beechman Cabaret Theater is located in the same building. The university also utilizes the adjacent Drake Theater, primarily for dance productions. The Caplan Center for the Performing Arts, located on the 16 & 17th floor of Terra Hall – which opened in 2007, houses two theaters. Its black box theater seats 100 and a recital hall seats 250.
Programs[]
Polyphone Festival
Polyphone is a festival in its fifth year that features developing and emerging musicals at the University of Arts in Philadelphia.[4] Composers and lyricists are invited to campus to try new things and experiment with students. It is being run by the artistic director César Alvarez, the festival looks to push on the question "What is a musical?"[5] Most shows take the form of a staged concert. "Watching eight hours of newly born musicals is a totally overwhelming experience, but it puts us into a sublime state of openness and reflection about our craft and our purpose" -César Alvarez.[6] The festivals lineups include:
| Year | Show | Writers |
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| 2019[7] | An Incomplete List of All the Things I'm Going to Miss When the World is No Longer | Dante Green, additional music & lyrics by Marlee Gordon and Lyell Hintz |
| Bring the Beat Back | Derek Lee McPhatter | |
| Hart Island Requiem | Book and lyrics by Ty Defoe, music by Tidtaya Sinutoke, music arranged by Mike Pettry | |
| Marie in Tomorrowland | Co-conceived and created by Maggie-Kate Coleman, Erato A. Kremmyda, and Sam Pinkleton, with book & lyrics by Maggie-Kate Coleman | |
| 2018[8] | Ancient Future | Storm Thomas |
| Retrograde | Sav Souza (book and lyrics), Sarah Flaim (Music) | |
| White Girl in Danger | Michael R. Jackson | |
| Cowboy Bob | Molly Beach Murphy (playwright), Jeanna Phillips (music and lyrics) | |
| 2017[5] | Folk Wandering | Jaclyn Backhaus and Andrew Neisler (conceived by); Jaclyn Backhaus (book and lyrics); Blake Allen, Mike Brun, Andrew R. Butler, Joel Esher, Alex Fast, Jo Lampert, and Annie Tippe (music and additional lyrics) |
| Normativity | Jaime Jarrett | |
| The Real Whispher | Greta Gertler Gold (music and lyrics), Akin Salawu (book and lyrics) | |
| The Best Songs in the World Show | Martha Stuckey in collaboration with The Last Groovement | |
| 2016 [9] | A Chorus Line | Reimagined by Kati Donavon, Marvin Hamlisch (music), Edward Kleben (lyrics), James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante (book) |
| Annie Salem: An American Tale | Mac Wellman (book tale was adapted from); Rachel Chavkin (writer and lyrics), Heather Christian (music and lyrics), Andrew Schneider (co-creator) | |
| Finn the Fearless | Andrew Farmer (book), Andrew R. Butler (lyrics and music) | |
| Sometimes in Prague | Joshua William Gelb and Stephanie Johnstone | |
| The Material World | Dan Fishback | |
| 2015[10] | A Little Night Music | Hugh Wheeler (book), Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) |
| Elementary Spacetime Show | Andrew Neisler | |
| Pied! | Gordon Leary and Julia Meinwald | |
| The Total Bent | Stew and Heidi Rodewald |
The festival was also recently featured on the American Theatre Wing's Working in the Theatre series.[11]
Residence halls[]
The university has four on-campus residence halls located in the heart of Center City. Each dorm contains beds, dressers, desks, and chairs. They also contain a bathroom and mini kitchen with a mini fridge and cabinets. The halls include Furness, Pine, Spruce, and Juniper (reserved mainly for upperclassmen).
Notable alumni[]
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Notable faculty[]
- Edna Andrade (1917–2008), American geometric abstract painter and early Op Artist, 1996 recipient of the College Art Association Distinguished Teaching of Art Award for her three decades of teaching at Philadelphia College of Art [16]
- Alexey Brodovitch (1930–1940), photographer, designer, art director
- Gil Cohen, aviation artist
- Aaron Levinson, Grammy Award-winning producer and musician
- Camille Paglia (1947–), author and feminist social critic
- Vincent Persichetti, composer
- LaVaughn Robinson (1927–2008), professor from 1980–2008, American tap dancer, recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as a "Living National Treasure"
- Lizbeth Stewart (1948–2013), American ceramist
- Samuel Yellin, master blacksmith
See also[]
- Arts education
References[]
- ↑ As of June 30, 2011. "U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2011 Endowment Market Value and Percentage Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2010 to FY 2011" (PDF). 2011 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments. National Association of College and University Business Officers. http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/research/2011_NCSE_Public_Tables_Endowment_Market_Values.pdf. Retrieved June 7, 2013.
- ↑ Accreditation.
- ↑ [citation needed]
- ↑ A.D. Amorosi, "The Polyphone Festival is back for a third year at UArts", Broad Street Review, March 26th, 2017
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Polyphone Festival Returns For Third Year – University of the Arts". https://www.uarts.edu/news/2017/03/polyphone-festival-returns-third-year. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ↑ "Polyphone 2018 – The Ira Brind School of Theater Arts". http://www.brindschool.com/polyphone/. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ↑ "Polyphone 2019" (in en-US). http://brindschool.com/polyphone/.
- ↑ "Polyphone 2018 – The Ira Brind School of Theater Arts". http://www.brindschool.com/polyphone/#1513292549990-245624d7-0468. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ↑ "Polyphone 2016 – The Ira Brind School of Theater Arts". http://www.brindschool.com/polyphone-2016/. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ↑ Alaina Mabaso, "What Is a Musical Now? The Polyphone Festival Jammed Some Fresh Answers" American Theatre Magazine, March 30th, 2015
- ↑ American Theatre Wing, "Working in the Theater: Under Construction – Polyphone", September 22nd, 2017
- ↑ Adam Blackstone
- ↑ "Paul Felder". UFC. 2017-07-16. http://www.ufc.com/fighter/paul-felder. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ↑ "Sidney Goodman Estate – The official website of the Sidney Goodman Estate". http://sidneygoodmanestate.com/. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ↑ Roberts, Sam (29 May 2016). "Frank Modell, Longtime New Yorker Cartoonist, Dies at 98". https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/business/media/frank-modell-longtime-new-yorker-cartoonist-dies-at-98.html. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ↑ "Archives - Philly.com". http://articles.philly.com/2008-04-18/news/25251484_1_addison-gallery-art-museum-fine-arts. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
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