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Calling all champions of Arts & Culture!

On the IU Bloomington campus, we aim to make every student a fierce and informed advocate of Arts & Culture for life.

We integrate Arts & Culture into the educational experience of every student and into the spirit of the entire community. This creates an environment where you might have the opportunity to:

  • Learn from a poet laureate, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, and a Guggenheim Fellow—all in one week.
  • Encounter a Gutenberg Bible, a Picasso painting, and a Penderecki composition—all in one day.
  • Perform, publish, produce, ponder, and preserve—in short, celebrate human expression in its many forms.

By supporting Arts & Culture at IU Bloomington, you help us inspire and edify future leaders through exploration of the human experience in all its diversity, complexity, and nuance.

Will you answer the call to champion Arts & Culture at IU?

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The IU Bloomington Arts & Humanities Council calls together creative people across campus, throughout the state, and beyond to share in the transformative power of the arts and humanities.
With three student performance groups, IU’s African American Arts Institute preserves and promotes Black and African American music, dance, and culture.
Oral histories, photos, manuscripts, and other one-of-a kind materials are available to students and scholars thanks to the Archives of African American Music and Culture.
Host to world-class artists, entertainers, and lecturers, IU Auditorium creates opportunities to experience and appreciate the performing arts.
One of the nation’s most prestigious arthouse cinemas, IU Cinema screens entertaining, fascinating, and thought-provoking films, while providing opportunities to engage with actors, filmmakers, and other experts.
The I.M. Pei-designed Eskenazi Museum of Art is a dynamic learning space that brings art conservation to life for visitors, explores the frontier of art-based wellness, and houses one of the most expansive university museum collections in the country.
Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design encourages students to learn collaboratively across 14 different areas of study while immersing themselves in their chosen discipline.
Jacobs School of Music hosts more than 1,100 performances by talented students, faculty, and guest artists each year.
The Kinsey Institute Collections span more than 2,000 years of human history and include correspondence, manuscripts, art, and artifacts to support scholarly research on subjects like sexuality, gender, and relationships.
Inside the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive, film preservationists work with one of the largest film collections at any university, actively rescuing media history through a nationally recognized digitization initiative.
University Archives, housed in the Herman B Wells Library, collects, organizes, preserves, and makes accessible records documenting Indiana University’s rich history.
The world-renowned special collections, rare books, and manuscripts at the Lilly Library are available to all, regardless of address, academic status, or affiliation.
Drawing from more than 250 collections from all IU campuses, University Collections at McCalla creates exhibits and educational experiences that span disciplines, history, and geography.
The Media School combines a liberal arts education with hands-on training. Students hone storytelling and visual communication skills to pursue careers in game design, digital media, filmmaking, and beyond.
IU’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology brings together over five million objects to tell the story of humanity, from Indiana's first peoples to contemporary communities worldwide.
From archaeological digs to parlor concerts, the historic Wylie House Museum hosts a range of programming for IU students and the Bloomington community.
WTIU Public Television, the PBS station owned and operated by IU, produces and broadcasts local, regional, and national programs on news, history, music, and more.
WFIU Public Radio—central Indiana’s source for news, classical and jazz music, and NPR programming—has been broadcasting from the IU Bloomington campus since 1950.

There’s more than one way to champion Arts & Culture at IU Bloomington

  • Join us on campus and in the community for performances, festivals, and lectures.
  • Explore our museums, libraries, and special collections.
  • Give to the cause closest to your heart.

Join us in championing Arts & Culture at IU Bloomington

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