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
Hansen Musical Arts Series
Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens
MARCH 10 | 8 p.m. **SOLD OUT**
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. Throughout history, people have turned to music for soothing and solace in times of conflict, uncertainty, and change. In this new program, Giddens and the Silkroad Ensemble explore how music can help us make sense of our world, process loss, navigate environmental and social changes, and rebuild community through shared musical experience. The program seeks to uplift—offering joy, hope, and a renewed sense of belonging through collective listening and presence.
To inquire about a waiting list, please contact the Arts Box Office at 419-372-8171 or artstickets@bgsu.edu.
These events are free and open to the public:
Open Rehearsal
MARCH 8 | 11:30 A.M. to 1 P.M.
Kobacker Hall
Moore Musical Arts Center
If you weren't able to secure tickets to the March 10th concert, this is for you!
Silkroad @ The Library
MARCH 8 | 3-4:30 P.M.
Wood County District Public Library
Silkroad musicians, Karen Ouzounian & Mazz Swift, will present a public youth program that includes music and discussion. Kindergarten through middle school students, parents and caregivers are welcome.
Discussion and Community Jam
MARCH 9 | 7 P.M.
Kelly Hall (Room 1012)
Moore Musical Arts Center
Stories are told through music & movement. Bring your acoustic instruments, voices, and open hearts to explore new rhythms and sounds and create unique and deeply human musical possibilities.
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
This event will also be livestreamed at the BGSU Firelands Campus
McBride Auditorium, Room 159, North Building
Parking available in Lot A
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: 02/18/2026 01:00PM