Arts and Performance Spaces

Since our founding, the arts have played a seminal role in the educational mission of Connecticut College. We were the first baccalaureate institution in the country to offer music and art as fully fledged academic subjects. Visual art, creative writing, film, music, theater and dance encourage us to see the world, and ourselves, in entirely new ways. They make us reflect more deeply, think more critically, listen more openly and act more compassionately. Some of the spaces we’ve dedicated to the arts are the Athey Center for Performance and Research, several galleries in the Cummings Arts Center, the Cummings Electronic and Digital Sound Studio, a photography darkroom, the Elizabeth Gilbert Fortune Recording Studio, Evans Hall, Fortune Recital Hall, Martha Myers Dance Studio, the MOBROC Barn, individual workspaces for studio art and Tansill Theater.