Arts And Culture
Illinois presents a rich variety of cultural programs for education and entertainment. Performance centers and theatres present the world’s finest operas, ballets, and plays, and auditoriums host popular performers of music and shows. Great museums, lectures, and presentations by the world’s top scholars enrich both the campus and the community.
Performing Arts
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
- Assembly Hall (live performances)
- Foellinger Auditorium
Campus Performing Arts Groups
- Band ensembles
- Department of Dance performances
- Department of Theatre productions
- School of Music ensembles
- Sinfonia da Camera
Community Theater
Campus Events
- Campus Calendar – Exhibits
- Campus Calendar – Performances
- Center for Advanced Study/MillerComm lecture series
Libraries
- Band Library
- Illinois History and Lincoln Collection
- Music Library
- Ricker Library of Architecture and Art
- University Collections
Academic Units
Colleges
Schools and Departments
- Architecture, School of
- Art+Design, School of
- Dance, Department of
- East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of
- English, Department of
- French, Department of
- Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of
- History, Department of
- Landscape Architecture, Department of
- Music, School of
- Slavic Languages and Literature, Department of
- Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Department of
- Theatre, Department of
- Urban and Regional Planning, Department of
Centers
- African Studies, Center for
- East Asian and Pacific Studies, Center for
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
- Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for
- Russian and East European Center
- World Music Center
Programs
- Afro-American Studies and Research Program
- Asian American Studies Program
- Cinema Studies, Unit for
- English as an International Language
- Gender and Women’s Studies Program
- International Arts Minor
- Jewish Studies, Program in
- Latina/Latino Studies Program
- Medieval Studies, Program in
- South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Program in
Museums and Collections
- Allerton Park and Conference Center
- Japan House
- Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion
- Rare Book and Special Collections Library
- John Philip Sousa Collection
- Spurlock Museum (world history and culture)
Other Cultural Institutions and Initiatives
- Asian Educational Media Service
- Building Research Council
- Center for Writing Studies
- Computer Music Project
- East St. Louis Action Research Project (ESLARP)
- Experimental Music Studios
- Illinois at the Phillips
Illinois academic program at The Phillips Collection Center for the Study of Modern Art in Washington D.C. - Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
- Inner Voices Social Issues Theatre program
- I space
Gallery of the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Chicago - Student organizations (creative)
- University of Illinois Press
- WILL AM/FM TV