UIndy Arts Venues

 

Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center

 

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Built in 1994, this center houses both the Department of Music and the Department of Art & Design. The building is dedicated to the development of young artists and performances of those who have succeeded in the arts. Department of Music students have practice rooms, large ensemble and chamber ensemble spaces, a fully furnished recording studio all in the same building as the acclaimed Ruth Lilly Performance Hall. 

The Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center hosts over 100 performances each semester. In the Department of Art & Design, you will find studios dedicated to Digital Photography, Graphic Design, Illustration, Printmaking & Letterpress, 2D Foundations, Painting, Drawing, as well as spaces dedicated to advanced students, Art History, work Digitization, and more. Additional studios for Sculpture, Jewelry, Ceramics, Art Therapy, and 3D Foundations are found in the Art & Design Annex.

Ruth Lilly Performance Hall

The Ruth Lilly Performance Hall has hosted thousands of artists and performers since its opening. The performance hall provides an exquisite, Viennese-style space which is acoustically designed for solo, chamber and ensemble performances. It has showcased some of the top performers in the world and the recording equipment has enabled students and faculty to publish renowned performances, as well as student recitals. Performances each year include members of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, artist Faculty, and the American Piano Awards winners and laureates.

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Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Gallery

Adjacent to the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall, this professional gallery has a high ceiling, spacious walls and natural light in the gallery make it ideal for exhibiting a wide variety of two- and three-dimensional works. As part of the Department of Art & Design the gallery hosts three to six exhibitions of professional artists and designers each academic year that are free and open to the public. The final exhibition each year is the UIndy Juried Student Exhibition that is open to all registered undergraduate students. Accepted work highlights a range of work created by UIndy students. For more information about the Gallery please contact the UIndy Department of Art & Design at art@uindy.edu.

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Esch Hall Theatre Spaces

 

Ransburg Auditorium

Located at the east end of Esch Hall, Ransburg Auditorium is the main stage theatre and host for larger-scale theatre productions, as well as many community performances and events. It seats 780 in a traditional proscenium arch configuration and includes fly, wing and backstage space. The backstage facilities include a well-equipped scene shop, costume and prop facilities and ample dressing and make-up rooms.

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Studio Theatre

The Studio Theatre is a flexible three-quarter or thrust black-box-style space, seating approximately 80. Located in the lower level of Esch Hall below Ransburg Auditorium, the Studio is used as a classroom, performance space for faculty-directed productions, showcase for acting and directing scenes and space for student-generated performances such as the Student Directed Productions. The studio can be reconfigured into a proscenium set-up, but it's "standard" use is in a thrust configuration.

Studio Theatre

Art & Design Annex

The Art & Design Annex is home to the Dee Schaad Student Gallery, and Sculpture, Jewelry, Art Therapy, 3D Foundations, and The Miriam Silverman Resnick Ceramics studios. This Building was dedicated in 2022 and has expanded the offerings and studios in the Department of Art & Design. The Annex is found on the Northside of Campus next to Greyhound Village. 

The Dee Schaad Student Gallery hosts student thesis and portfolio exhibitions each semester in the Art & Design Annex. There are pop-up exhibitions throughout the academic year for studio classes. For more information about the Gallery please contact the UIndy Department of Art & Design at art@uindy.edu.

Other Facilities

In addition to these venues, you also may find arts and cultural events in the Schwitzer Student Center, home to UIndy's annual dinner theatre production and the Au Ho-nien Museum. The student center features dining and recreation areas for students, conference facilities, a coffee shop and the UIndy bookstore. The park-like Smith Mall, located in the heart of campus, also is home to a handful of events each year. Historic Good Hall, the University's oldest building, holds the Leah Ransburg Gallery, a smaller space for student and faculty exhibitions, and the Recital Hall, which holds a variety of lectures, meetings and events.

The Permanent Art Collection Sculpture Walk are a diverse collection of works of Art that can be viewed across campus – inside and outside – from Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center to the Health Pavilion – from Good Hall to Martin and Lilly Halls and most of the spaces in between.

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