University of the Arts (Philadelphia)

University of the Arts
University of the Arts Dorrance Hamilton Hall.jpg
Dorrance Hamilton Hall
SkoltypKonsthögskola
OrtPhiladelphia i Pennsylvania
LandUSA
Grundad1870, 1876
Antal elever1.800

University of the Arts är en amerikansk konst- och dramatisk högskola i Philadelphia i Pennsylvania. Dess campus utgör en del av Avenue of the Arts i centrala Philadelphia. Högskolan är uppdelad i College of Art, Media and Design och College of Performing Arts, samt underenheterna Liberal Arts och Continuing Studies.

År 1870 inrättades Philadelphia Musical Academy och 1877 Philadelphia Conservatory of Music. År 1944 grundades Children's Dance Theatre, senare känd som Philadelphia Dance Academy.

År 1876 grundades Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art som ett museum och som en konstskola. År 1938 namnändrades museet till Philadelphia Museum of Art och skolan blev Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art.[1] År 1964 blev skolan självständig från museet och omdöptes till Philadelphia College of Art.

År 1985 slogs Philadelphia College of Art och Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts samman till Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts och fick 1987 universitets ställning som University of the Arts.

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Noter

  1. ^ Sixty-second Annual Report of the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the Year Ended May 31, 1938, with the List of Members, 1938 

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University of the Arts Dorrance Hamilton Hall.jpg
Författare/Upphovsman: Beyond My Ken, Licens: CC BY-SA 4.0
The University of the Arts' Dorrance Hamilton Hall at 320 S. Broad Street at the corner of Pine Street and running west to S. 15th Street and north to Delancey Street, in the Avenue of the Arts cultural district of Center City, Philadelphia, was built in 1824-26 for the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, and was designed by John Haviland in the Greek Revival style. In 1838, William Strickland added wings to the building to the north and south of Haviland's original structure, then, in 1875, Frank Furness designed two Victorian Gothic wings that connected the building to 15th Street. The building was purchased by the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art in 1893, and this institution eventually became the University of the Arts. It is the oldest extant building on Broad Street. (Source: "Dorrance Hamilton Hall" on the University website)