Arts And Culture

Illinois presents a rich variety of cultural programs for education and entertainment. Performance centers and theatres present the world’s finest operas, ballets, and plays, and auditoriums host popular performers of music and shows. Great museums, lectures, and presentations by the world’s top scholars enrich both the campus and the community.

Performing Arts

  • Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
    • Performances
    • Youth Series
  • State Farm Center (live performances)
  • Foellinger Auditorium

Campus Performing Arts Groups

  • Band ensembles
  • Department of Dance performances
  • Department of Theatre productions
  • School of Music ensembles
  • Sinfonia da Camera

Community Theater

  • Champaign-Urbana Ballet
  • Champaign-Urbana Theatre Company
  • Station Theatre
  • Virginia Theatre

Campus Events

  • Campus Calendar – Exhibits
  • Campus Calendar – Performances
  • Center for Advanced Study/MillerComm lecture series

Libraries

  • Band Library
  • Illinois History and Lincoln Collection
  • Music Library
  • Ricker Library of Architecture and Art
  • University Collections

Academic Units

Colleges

  • Fine and Applied Arts
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences

Schools and Departments

  • Architecture, School of
  • Art+Design, School of
  • Dance, Department of
  • East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of
  • English, Department of
  • French, Department of
  • Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of
  • History, Department of
  • Landscape Architecture, Department of
  • Music, School of
  • Slavic Languages and Literature, Department of
  • Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Department of
  • Theatre, Department of
  • Urban and Regional Planning, Department of

Centers

  • African Studies, Center for
  • East Asian and Pacific Studies, Center for
  • Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
  • Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for
  • Russian and East European Center
  • Robert E. Brown Center for World Music

Programs

  • Afro-American Studies and Research Program
  • Asian American Studies Program
  • Cinema Studies, Unit for
  • English as an International Language
  • Gender and Women’s Studies Program
  • Jewish Culture and Society, Program in
  • Latina/Latino Studies Program
  • Medieval Studies, Program in
  • South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Center for

Museums and Collections

  • Allerton Park and Retreat Center
  • Japan House
  • Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion
  • The Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  • John Philip Sousa Collection (Center for American Music)
  • Spurlock Museum (world history and culture)

Other Cultural Institutions and Initiatives

  • Asian Educational Media Service
  • Building Research Council
  • Center for Writing Studies
  • East St. Louis Action Research Project (ESLARP)
  • Experimental Music Studios (Computer Music Project)
  • Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
  • Inner Voices Social Issues Theatre program
  • University of Illinois Press
  • WILL AM/FM TV