Penn State College of Arts and Architecture

History

Composition

Schools and departments

• Department of Art History
• H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
• School of Music
• School of Theatre
• School of Visual Arts

  Outreach programs

• Center for the Performing Arts
• * The Center for the Performing Arts is the successor to the Penn State Artists Series, founded in 1957 to present a variety of artistic performances on Penn State's campus. The Center hosts a series of musical and theatrical events annually.
• Palmer Museum of Art
• * The Palmer Museum of Art, opened in University Park in 1972, hosts a permanent collection of approximately 8,200 works, in addition to periodic rotating exhibitions and educational programs.
• Penn State Centre Stage
• * Penn State Centre Stage is the professional arm of the School of Theatre and has its origins in the late 1950s, when theatre department head Walter H. Walters established a program for current students and professionals to present plays at the on-campus theatre, the Pavilion.
• Penn's Woods Music Festival
• * The Penn's Woods Music Festival was established in 1986 to present a summer professional orchestral and chamber music festival organized by the School of Music.

  List of deans of the College of Arts and Architecture