![A student works with a colorful art palette.](https://alumni.arcadia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/visual-performing-arts-dept-hero-opt.webp)
![A professor provides instruction to a student playing piano.](https://www.arcadia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/music-student-teacher-hero-2048x1152-opt.webp)
Music
Take music courses, private lessons, or join an ensemble for course credit with the Music minor.
![David Kettner Installation View](https://alumni.arcadia.edu/wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/uploads/2022/01/ArcadiaKettnerInstall1.jpg.webp)
![Installation view, "A Strong In-Your-Face Word: Works from the Brodsky Center at PAFA", Spruance Gallery, photo: Sam Fritch](https://alumni.arcadia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/16/i-rnhrztr-x3-1-opt-1024x683.webp?ver=1713362437)
![Installation view, "Polly Apfelbaum: For the Love of Una Hale," 2022, Spruance Gallery, photo: Greenhouse Media](https://alumni.arcadia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/16/apfelbaum-install-1-spruance-greenhouse-opt-1024x683.jpg)
A nationally recognized destination for contemporary art in the greater Philadelphia area, Arcadia Exhibitions provides the region with a stimulating roster of individual and thematic exhibitions shaped by its mission to encourage dialogue among artists, educators, students and the general public about current visual art and its socio-cultural relevance.
![a female college student looking across the a room in a house at another female college student and a male college student](https://alumni.arcadia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/19/Arcadia-Theater-Circle-Mirror-Transformation-1.jpeg)
![Two actresses are seated on stage at a diner table with one standing between them in Arcadia's Theater](https://alumni.arcadia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/01/theater.jpeg)
![A college student performing in The Resistible Rise of Arturo](https://alumni.arcadia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/19/Arcadia-Theater-The-Resistible-Rise-of-_Arturo-Ui-1.jpeg)
![Student works with a vise in the metal workshop.](https://alumni.arcadia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/14/murphy-hall-interior-collage-horiz-opt.webp?ver=1714692535)
![Drone view of Murphy Hall with Grey Towers Castle in the background.](https://alumni.arcadia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/14/murphy-hall-collage-squarish-opt.jpg)
![A view of the tower at Murphy Hall from the ground.](https://alumni.arcadia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/14/murphy-hall-collage-vertical.jpg)
Learn, Explore, Grow
Students learn and practice new skills at the metal workshop in Murphy Hall.
Visual and Performing Arts News
![Arcadia University Awarded Grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Supporting “Sun & Sea (Marina)”](https://alumni.arcadia.edu/wp-content/themes/genesis-sample/images/news_placeholder.jpeg)