The Office of Performing Arts and Engagement

Kurt Vile is an essential American psych-pop songwriter and guitarist. His music, veering between flashes of lightning and hazes of dense fog, captures our emotional and collective landscape like few other artists in the modern era. 

Presented at Gabe's
Dogsbody, the debut album by Brooklyn-based Model/Actriz, is a coming-of-age album set between the hours of dusk and dawn. It is as much an exploration of love and loss as it is a sharp, piercing, and violent ode to the explosive joy of being alive. 

A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Irving returns to our campus and community to discuss his life and creative process alongside Iowa Writers’ Workshop director Lan Samantha Chang.

Love In Exile is the daring new collaboration from Grammy Award-winning singer Arooj Aftab, Shahzad Ismaily, and Vijay Iyer. In These Times is a masterwork album from Chicago-based percussionist, composer, and producer Makaya McCraven.

Presented at The Englert Theatre
The Sphinx Virtuosi is a dynamic self-conducted chamber orchestra comprised of eighteen accomplished Black and Latinx artists aiming to evolve the face of classical music through artistic excellence, pioneering programming, and community engagement.

Nabil Ayers is a music industry executive, writer, and musician as well as CEO of Beggars Group USA, one of the preeminent global music labels. James Spooner is a revered tattoo artist who just released The High Desert, a new coming-of-age graphic memoir.