Re-imagining University Arts Programs for Community Revitalization

UA’s AkronArts plan is a bold initiative to embrace and enhance arts on our campus and in Greater Akron to enrich, empower, and enliven our community. We will reassess and advance existing programs, facilities, and relationships and create new ones. We aspire to present Akron as a national model of creativity, expression, authenticity, diversity, and collaboration. We will use our campus and its human talent to develop and present myriad forms of artistic expression and ingenuity to make Akron an even more inspiring and empathetic place. We will open physical and philosophical boundaries, allowing our arts and cultural resources to flow into the community and inviting the community more fully into our campus. Akron and its university will Rise Together.

"Merging the arts scene between UA and the city can help to enliven downtown life, increase enrollment, and attract residents, visitors and businesses," said Joe Urgo, committee chair and interim dean of UA's Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences, in the release.

 
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Economic Impact, Engagement, PlacemakingAmp StrategyE.J. Thomas Hall, Arts Administration Program, Myers School of Art Visiting Artist/Designer Residency and Lecture Series, Kulas Concert Series, NEOMFA Program in Creative Writing, NCCAkron, The University of Akron Press and Akron Poetry Prize, Art Bomb Brigade, Akron Roundtable, Synapse, The Cummings Center for the History of Psychology, College of Engineering and Polymer Science Chihuly Sculpture, Matthew Cherry, Noor Hindi, Theron Brown, The Brothers Mueller, KleinReid, Rhea Butcher, Woodrow Nash