The Fine & Performing Arts at Tufts
On the academic side, Tufts benefits from its proximity to the New England Conservatory of Music and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. On the social side, Tufts offers opportunities to participate in music and artistic expression in some of the most beautiful performance halls and galleries in Boston.
Boston Art Links
Scenes
Music
Tufts’vibrant music scence doesn’t stop at a capella. Rock bands can practice in one of three sound-proof Wenger booths at the Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center. After practice, they can peer into rehearsals of the opera ensemble, the jazz band, the gamelan, or catch a chamber music master class. You’ll find African drumming and dance, Arabic and Jewish music – and then there’s Boston itself, which is an incredibly musical city.
Theatre & Dance
Pen, Paint & Pretzels, a.k.a. 3Ps, is Tufts’ umbrella organization for student-run performing arts groups on campus. One major production and two workshop productions each semester make for many opportunities to act, direct, design, stage manage, and produce. Recent productions have run the gamut from Pippen to Tufts Writer’s Showcase.
Fine Art
The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) is probably the best-known destination in Boston for viewing paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures, and other art objects from ancient times through the modern age. The more than 450,000 pieces in the collection will draw you back again and again. Back on the Tufts campus, the permanent collection features works by John Singer Sargent, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol, among many others.
Spaces
Granoff Music Center
As part of the ongoing expansion and improvement at Tufts, the state-of-the-art Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center opened in February 2007. The impressive 55,000-square-foot facility features a 300-seat recital hall of broadcast and recording quality. In addition, it houses a music library, a world music room, rehearsal and private practice space, classrooms, and seminar space.
Aidekman Arts Center
At the center of Tufts’ arts community is the impressive Aidekman Arts Center, which is home to an enormous exhibition space, a unique 220-seat round theater, a 600-seat multi-use auditorium, two dance studios and dozens of private music rooms, rehearsal spaces, and classrooms. Used frequently by students, the Center is also a lure for world-famous visiting artists.
