Arts at Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech envisions the arts as a deeply embedded and highly valued part of life on campus, and wherever Virginia Tech students, alumni, family, and friends live and work in the world. As the centerpiece of a comprehensive Arts Initiative at Virginia Tech, the Center for the Arts will be central to reaching the university’s goal to increase the presence and practice of the arts on campus and across the communities we serve.

Video: Center for the Arts groundbreaking

Scheduled to open in 2013, the Center will be a complex of new and renovated facilities that create a dynamic, vibrant gathering place in the community. Located at the intersection of campus and Main Street, the center will house:

• A state of the art, 1,260 seat performance hall where we will present programs of regional, national and international significance across the genre of music, theatre and dance
• Beautiful visual arts galleries with the infrastructure to support both traditional exhibitions, and digital and new media installations
• Creative technology laboratory spaces devoted to the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, which will provide an applied research environment for faculty from across campus, artists, and educators to come together and develop new models, projects and works that are not only artistic efforts, but also tools to directly impact PK-12 education in science, math, social studies, and language arts.

Read the news story: Design plans for Virginia Tech's Center for the Arts set; construction to begin later this year

Audio: Ruth Waalkes discusses the Center for the Arts