Students in the College of the Arts have access to versatile and expansive spaces in the Center for the Performing Arts, Center for the Visual Arts, Rockwell Hall, the KSU Museum, and Cartwright Hall. Explore these spaces in 360-degree imaging using the navigation below.
The Glauser School of Music and the School of Theatre and Dance are housed together in the Center for the Performing Arts and the units share the specialized resources provided by the Performing Arts Library, located on the bottom level.
The Music wing of the Center for the Performing Arts which contains classrooms, rehearsal spaces for the School’s various bands and ensembles, faculty studios, practice rooms for student use, and Ludwig Recital Hall where most student and faculty recitals and ensemble performances are held.
The Roe Green Center for the School of Theatre and Dance is a 70,000+ square foot wing that houses 3 theatres, traditional classroom spaces, acting studios, costume shop, costume technology lab, dressing rooms, lighting lab, makeup classroom, props lab, sound studio, scenery lab, scene shop, and welding lab. The dance suite includes a lobby, 3 large dance studios, and locker room facilities for students and faculty.
The School of Art is housed in the Center for the Visual Arts (CVA), a 127,000 square foot state-of-the-art, LEED certified building that opened in 2016. The CVA contains art education and art history classrooms and lecture halls; a glass shop; a wood shop; dedicated studios for ceramics, painting, drawing, jewelry/metals/enameling, print media and photography, textiles, and sculpture; and an outdoor workspace.
The School of Fashion and the Kent State University Museum are located in Rockwell Hall, a renovated and restored 1927 Beaux Arts-style building that originally served as the university library.
Rockwell Hall contains specialized facilities for fashion students including the TechStyle LAB, the KnitLAB, a 4,000+ title Fashion Library, and an array of studios and classrooms with dedicated sewing and design space and facilities that meet the highest museum standards to house the one of the largest fashion and design-focused collections in the United States
Cartwright Hall is the home of the College of the Arts Dean's Office and the location of the University Auditorium, one of the venues used for music performances at Kent State University.
