Visual & Performing Arts Facilities

Each year, Mount Holyoke offers hundreds of courses in dance, music, studio art, art history, architectural studies, film studies, and theatre arts—and our students’ creative studies are supported by outstanding facilities.

The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum has a comprehensive teaching collection of more than 14,000 objects. Its strengths include Asian art, nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American paintings and sculpture, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art, medieval sculpture, early Italian Renaissance paintings, and extensive collections of prints, drawings, and photographs.

The expanded and renovated Art Building houses spacious, well-lit drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture studios; a digital printmaking lab; and a senior studio with individual studios for senior art majors. There's also a student art gallery in the Blanchard Campus Center.

For music students, Pratt Music Hall offers rehearsal and performance spaces, teaching studios, a computer lab, score and recording libraries, and a virtual practice room ( see more: What's a V-room...). Concerts, dances, films, and other programs are also held in Blanchard Campus Center's Great Room overlooking Lower Lake and in Chapin Auditorium, an air-conditioned, 1,100-seat concert hall with a proscenium stage.

Dance classes and performances take place in Kendall Sports and Dance Complex, which has a spacious and versatile studio theatre and two large studios for classes, rehearsals, and informal showings of works in progress.

Theatre arts facilities include the Rooke Theatre, an intimate wood-paneled theatre with a fully equipped shop, and a black box theatre for classes and student-produced work.