Click on the links below to learn how UArts supports creative initiatives on campus and across the world.

Campus Initiatives
o The Corzo Center for the Creative Economy, founded by UArts in 2006, advocates using the creative process as a high level force for change.

o Anytime – Anywhere Creativity: All new UArts students use MacBook Pro laptops to create, collaborate, research and communicate 24/7.

o UArts on iTunesU was created to make it easy for anyone to download content created by UArts faculty, visting artists, performers, and lecturers. 

o Skyline Performing Arts Center, opening in 2007-08 on UArts campus, will house Philadelphia's only recital hall and studio theater with a skyline view.

o Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage (PCAH), administered by UArts, is comprised of seven Pew Charitable Trusts initiatives that assist local cultural organizations in developing public programs.

Academic Partnerships
o The Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts (LIPA) partnership with UArts encourages students and staff to experience the arts in a different culture and context.

o University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USP) partnership gives students from both schools opportunities to explore the connections and contrasts between art and science.

o Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership (PAEP) promotes learning in and through the arts for students in K-12 schools throughout southeastern Pennsylvania.

Student Projects
o Misterios: Crafts students learned how art connects cultures separated by time and geography. 

o Mural Arts Program & Bo De Temple: Pre-college program students worked with Philadelphia’s Vietnamese community to transform the Bo De Buddhist Temple and Community Center.

o Service Learning: Each year, Art Education student volunteers teach art in special education classes, elementary, middle school and high schools.

o WHYY-TV showcased student work from across the University during the summer of 2006. Students in the College of Media and Communication worked to established the partnership.

Faculty Projects
o Slavko Milekic: When he’s not educating future art teachers, this Art Ed professor explores ways to make museums more interactive—and interesting—to children.

o Connie Michael, a School of Dance professor, rallied her students and organized a clothing drive for Hurricane Katrina victims.

o De Angela Duff, a CMAC multimedia professor, captured her African heritage and Alabama childhood for a photography exhibit in January 07.

o Toby Zinman:  The Liberal Arts professor will enjoy Africa’s largest performing arts festival and lecture at the international drama conference in Grahamstown, South Africa this summer. 

Please click on the links above to learn more.