The arts are transformative. They inspire and instruct by inviting us to experience the world through all of our senses. They transcend boundaries, promote continuity across generations, motivate empathy, and incite joyful, communal experie…
The Notre Dame Arts Initiative has awarded 38 grants to foster sustained growth in the arts through partner programming for the inaugural Notre Dame Arts Biennial, scheduled for January through June of 2027. Awardees include 16 regional com…
The Program in Sacred Music and the Department of Music are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Amanda Quist as Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at University of Notre Dame. Dr. Quist joins Notre Dame from Western…
Every week, students in the Institute for Social Concerns’ Art and Social Change course entered the Our Lady of the Road drop-in center, where they were greeted by a quote from Dorothy Day: “We have all known the long loneliness and we have…
Fourteen scholars will participate in the third round of the Franco Institute’s Research Innovation Collaboratives. These “labs” build on the University’s strategic framework by encouraging research outside of departmental and institutional…
Playwright and University of Notre Dame alumna Dolores Díaz returned to campus on Thursday, March 26, for a staged reading of her play George Washington’s Mexican Birthday at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Directed by Gabrielle Randl…
Time: Fri Apr 17, 2026, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Location: 136 O'Neill Hall - LaBar Performance Hall (west side) Second year MSM voice student HyunWoo Lee will present a recital. This performance will be live-streamed. The program can be viewed he…
Time: Fri Apr 17, 2026, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Location: Leighton Concert Hall Ali Stroker is a Tony Award winner for her role as Ado Annie in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! She made history as the first wheelchair user to appear on Broadwa…
The University of Notre Dame’s Joyelle McSweeney, the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English, has won the Windham-Campbell Prize for her work in poetry. McSweeney, who chairs the Department of English in the College of Arts & Le…
“By engaging the past, we build our anchors into the future”. These words embody the artistic drive that is so vividly experienced when engaging with Adela Najarro’s poetry. Students, faculty members and visitors had the opportunity to expe…
How do the arts make us look more deliberately? How does music let us listen more closely? How might literature enable us to read more carefully? How might dance help us feel more strongly? These are just some of the questions that New York…
Author: Notre Dame Arts Initiative 2026 Initiative on Race and Resilience Artist-in-Residence, DeJeonge Reese (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Yeadon, Pennsylvania, whose work uses material exploration to tell stor…