AU Design Show 2021
Annual celebration featuring ⭐️ students in all class levels: 29 projects from 16 designers chosen by a local and international design panel.
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AU Arts
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20016
United States
AU Arts
The visual and performing arts have a prominent role at American University. Rotating exhibitions at the AU Museum within the state-of-the-art Katzen Art Center emphasize regional, national, and international contemporary art. The Department of the Performing Arts, comprised of Arts Management, Audio Technology, Dance, Music, and Theatre/Musical Theatre, provides dynamic, connected, expressive, and fulfilling experiences for all of our majors, minors, and participating students.
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Questions? Call 202-885-ARTS or email auarts@american.edu.
Fall Events
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
October 21-30, 2021 - Visiting Writers Series
October 27, 2021: Danielle Evans,
December 3, 2021: Charles Baxter - Winter’s Tale
Broadcast Performance – Online [date: to be announced] - American University Chamber Singers Return
November 6, 2021 at 7:30 p.m.
November 7, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. - AU Workshop
November 12, 2021 - AU Symphonic Band
November 14, 2021 - Choreolab
November 19-20, 2021 - AU Symphonic Orchestra
November 20-21, 2021 - Dance Capstone
December 4-5, 2021 - AU Chorus
December 4-5, 2021
At the AU Museum
Five new exhibitions run in fall 2021 addressing climate change, neuroscience, contemporary colonialism, and more.
- Successions: Traversing US Colonialism
Amber Robles-Gordon
Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah - Diane Burko: Seeing Climate Change
Curated by Mary D. Garrard and Norma Broude - Anil Revri: Into the Light
Curated by Eleanor Heartney
Presented by the AU Museum Project Space - Philip Brookman: In the Light of Memory, 1969–2021
Curated by Milena Kalinovska - Reveal: The Art of Reimagining Scientific Discovery
Rebecca Kamen
Curated by Sarah Tanguy
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art - Inside Out: Artists in the Studio
Curated by Sarah Leary
Visiting Artists
The Studio Art MFA program is pleased to present the 2021-2022 Visiting Artists + Scholars series: Of the Place.
- October 22, Virtual
Monsieur Zohore, artist - October 28, Virtual
Danielle Abrams + Mary Ellen Strom, artists - November 6, Virtual
Monica Jahan Bose + Lauren Bon + Jesse Ribot + Signe Wilkinson in Seeing Climate Change Symposium - November 7, Virtual
James Mayhew Artist Talk
Seeing Climate Change Symposium - November 17 @ AU Museum
Artist and curator talk: Philip Brookman + Milena Kalinovska - November 20, Virtual, 3:00
Artist and curator conversation: Anil Revri + Eleanor Heartney
