Welcome to The Arts at BGSU!
The Arts at Bowling Green State University continue to flourish and stretch the boundaries of knowledge and imagination. You can experience the strength of our traditions and the inspiration of our creative innovations.
Comprising the College of Musical Arts, the School of Art, the Department of Theatre & Film and the Creative Writing Program, The Arts at BGSU function as an interdisciplinary unit, promoting a culture of creativity both on our campus and in our community.
Join us! We look forward to sharing our performances, galleries, lectures, and research with you.
Featured Premier Arts Events
Dubois Piano Festival
Guest Artist Recital: Greg Anderson
JANUARY 31 | 8 p.m.
BRYAN RECITAL Hall
Moore Musical Arts Center
Pianist Greg Anderson has toured extensively throughout four continents and 24 countries, and his two-decade collaboration with Elizabeth Joy Roe has been called “the most dynamic duo of this generation” (San Francisco Classical Voice) and “the very model of complete 21st-century musicians” (The Washington Post). Greg’s performances, Emmy-nominated music videos, Billboard Classical Chart-topping albums, speaking engagements, and compositions all serve his mission: to make classical music a powerful and relevant force in society.
This concert is free and open to the public.
Hansen Musical Arts Series
Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens
MARCH 10 | 8 p.m.
KOBACKER HALL
MOORE MUSICAL Arts CENTER
The Silkroad Ensemble’s latest flagship program with Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens is Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual. In this new program, Giddens, Silkroad artists, and special guests explore how music can help us better understand our world, find comfort, process loss and a changing environment, and rebuild community based on our own humanity. Throughout history, humans have turned to music for solace and soothing in times of conflict or stress. In particular, the idea of “trance” — leading to a profound peace that is hard to find in modern society — is closely tied to the communal making of music in many different cultures. This shared musical experience helps us uplift one another and find joy and hope through stronger relationships.
This is a free concert, but tickets are required. Reserve your ticket at bgsu.edu/the-arts/tickets after January 12, 2026.
BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition
MARCH 14-28
DOROTHY UBER BRYAN GALLERY
BGSU fine arts center
OPENING RECEPTION
MARCH 14 | 6-9 P.M.
Each spring, the senior Bachelor of Fine Arts students in the School of Art have the opportunity to exhibit their senior thesis works. These exemplary student works — ranging from metals, sculpture, ceramics, and painting to glass, digital art and graphic design — fill the Fine Arts Center Galleries for a two-week show.
All gallery exhibitions are free and open to the public.
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday-Saturday
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Braiding Sweetgrass
An evening with Robin Wall Kimmerer
MARCH 27 | 5:30 p.m.
KOBACKER HALL
MOORE MUSICAL arts center
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, author, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She will discuss her widely acclaimed book, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. Kimmerer’s newest book, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, is a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.
As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. She holds a B.S. in Botany from SUNY ESF, an M.S. and Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.
This event is free and open to the public.
In The Round: Artistry, Stories & Presence of Native Creatives
In The Round features Native American creatives who work in the areas of the arts here at BGSU: Fine Art, Graphic Design, Music, Creative Writing, Film, and Theatre. The speaker series seeks to render visible—to the BGSU and local communities—the artistry, activism, and presence of contemporary Native American artists. This series is an extension of the BGSU Land Acknowledgment, which provides a foundation upon which the university can build purposeful and sustained opportunities to learn about tribal nations and cultures.
Updated: 12/16/2025 04:32PM