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About Lehigh: The Arts at Lehigh

The performing and visual arts are an integral part of the Lehigh experience. They enliven and enrich the spirit of the campus with performances, exhibits, and student-directed projects year-round. At the center of this activity is the Zoellner Arts Center, which houses the Art Gallery and the departments of music and theatre. With several performance spaces, including the 940-seat Baker Hall, the Diamond Theatre, and smaller multi-configuration stages, the Zoellner Arts Center is host to Lehigh’s Guest Artist series, as well as over 50 faculty and student performances per year. In the area of visual arts, the Art Galleries present approximately 30 contemporary exhibitions a year, in addition to extensive permanent holdings.

Enhancing the excellence of these facilities, the rigorous and imaginative programs attract over 1,000 students per semester who actively use the Zoellner Arts Center for classes and activities in music and theatre. Art and Architecture enrolls an additional 500-plus students in its classes per semester. Whether it is experiencing world cultures while touring with the LU Philharmonic Orchestra or Choir, studying art and architecture in Europe, collaborating with seasoned professionals, or directing student theatre productions, unique opportunities abound in this vibrant and inventive learning environment.

While many students major in the arts, these programs are distinctive in that they primarily draw from the population of non-majors who are interested in incorporating creative activity into their time at Lehigh. Moreover, many of the programs cross the traditional boundaries of an arts education; the development of inter-disciplinary collaborations has served to enrich the student experience. The performing and visual arts departments have forged co-curricular partnerships with Global Citizenship, English, Women’s Studies, and Political Science. A program in design arts gives students the opportunity to learn and develop the synergies between art, engineering, design, and economics.

The arts at Lehigh received an additional infusion of energy in 2005, with the inauguration of ArtsLehigh, an initiative many years in the making, designed to incorporate the arts and aesthetic sensibility into nearly every aspect of Lehigh life. ArtsLehigh is based on the premise that good and creative things happen when the arts are integrated fully into everyday campus life and culture. Drawing on the considerable existing resources of performing, visual, digital, media and literary arts, ArtsLehigh facilitates just such integration.

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