Creation in Collaboration
Art is integrated everywhere—across campus, around the clock, among faculty and students. Art can open your eyes to the world’s toughest problems and most beautiful truths.
visual, musical, and theatrical performances throughout the year
arts organizations and campus groups
uniquely designed spaces to practice, create, exhibit, and perform
students in Arts Collective cohort
Get Involved in the Arts at Calvin
Dance
Dance is artistic expression, a celebration of culture, a form of worship, a way of life. Whatever your skill level, there’s a place for you to dance at Calvin.
Film
Through campus-led projects, members gain video production experience with on-campus clients and participate in events such as film festivals and campus-wide productions.
Perform
Whether you are majoring in the arts, business, or STEM, you can participate in a music or theatre ensemble.
Study
Pursue a major or minor in the arts. Explore our areas of study in the arts.
Connect
Build a community with others passionate for the arts at Calvin
I loved my class on entrepreneurship and the arts. My favorite part was taking field trips to meet different artists who have turned their passions and hobbies into their livelihood.
Studios and Venues
The arts at Calvin are vibrant and full of life. It’s amazing how much the arts here has shaped and formed me. It’s one of the best experiences you can get.
You Were Created to Create
Make Things New
This world has cracks and flaws. It is endlessly imperfect. Art has the potential to revive, reconnect, and restore what is broken. At Calvin, we take that power seriously. Our poems give words a new heart. Our paintings turn issues into understanding. Our films build relationships. Our arias renew weary souls. Through art—in all its powerful forms—we tangibly renew God’s creation.
Provoke Action
Can the arts make a city a better place to live? Free the oppressed? Reconcile inequality? At Calvin, we approach the arts with the bold belief that creative work is meant to serve God and others by questioning the status quo, challenging injustices, and actively working to make the world more like God intended it to be.
Revel in beauty
Great creative work draws you to a deeper place—a place of unfettered emotion and boundless joy. Through vibrant offerings in the arts—concerts, films, festivals, theatre performances, and more—Calvin invites you to revel in creative culture, believe in its ability to do good, and experience it as much more than entertainment.
