University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts

The newly established University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts is designed to put the creative and performing arts at the heart of the Princeton experience. This incentive is based on the conviction that exposure to the arts, particularly to the experience of producing art, helps each of us to make sense of our life and the lives of our neighbors. The University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts will give a new focus and force to the Programs in Creative Writing, Theater and Dance, and Visual Arts, and to the Princeton Atelier. It will also have close links to the University Art Museum, the Program in Musical Performance, and the Council of the Humanities. Students concentrating in molecular biology or mechanical engineering will be heartened to find that chemistry and physics, not to speak of mathematics, are all central to the idea of art-making. Students who are first and foremost interested in choreography, costume design, screenwriting, printmaking, photography, painting, or poetry, or indeed any aspect of the creative or performing arts, will discover that Princeton’s faculty and facilities will be second to none. Another significant component in the University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts will be a Society of Fellows in the Arts, bringing to the campus some of the most exciting artists and performers—and scholars of art and performance—of our era.

Courses, certificate programs, academic concentrations involving creative work, and other opportunities in the arts are described at many points in the Undergraduate Announcement.