Arts at Emory

Emory University is home to the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts, an organization that celebrates, nurtures, and inspires the act of making and studying art, and the intellectual creativity everywhere evident in a vibrant University community. The Center supports artistic and scholarly inquiry; encourages collaboration across academic disciplines and art forms; provides support and resources for artists and scholars at different stages of development; encourages familiar, and surprising, collaborations; fosters artistic excellence; allows for risk taking; supports originality, and tradition; encourages vision and revision. CCA seeks to make creativity, and the arts, central to Emory as a liberal arts institution, and to what we most value.a vibrant arts community and welcomes the public to more than 250 events annually featuring guest, faculty, alumni, and student artists. More than 20 exhibitions and 85 concerts are presented each year. The work of internationally- known artists is featured in exhibitions at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Schatten Gallery, and Visual Arts Building and Gallery; in performances of the Flora Glenn Candler Concert Series and Music at Emory Series; in new play development through the Playwriting Center of Theater Emory and Brave New Works Series; in readings for the Creative Writing Program Reading Series; and through residencies in the Emory Coca-Cola Artists-in-Residence Series. Emory is home to professional and student groups, including Emory Dance Company and Theater Emory. The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, one of six performance venues on campus, opened in February 2003 and houses the Dance Studio, Theater Laboratory, and the 800-seat, state-of-the-art Cherry Logan Emerson Concert Hall. Emory's academic programs for music, theater, film, creative writing, visual arts, art history, and dance attract scholars from around the world.