Salem State Center for Creative and Performing Arts
About
Salem State University’s Center for Creative and Performing Arts brings together the school’s theatre, dance, music, creative writing and visual art and presents them to the public. Audiences can see performances by visiting guest artists alongside award-winning student and faculty productions, as well as art exhibitions and spoken word events. The center aims to offer diverse and affordable arts experiences in state-of-the-art venues on the North Shore.
Recent offerings have included chamber ensemble concerts from the university band and chamber orchestra, a music for dance program and a fall arts coffeehouse. The university’s arts news also covers campus projects such as “Chronicles of Salem Change Makers,” a four-story mural in the visual language of stained glass inside Meier Hall by the studio Hare & Howl, which retells 400 years of Salem history, beginning with the people of Naumkeag.
What to Know
- The new Meier Hall mural is also part of the Punto Urban Art Museum.
- It replaced Robert E. Larter’s 1966 mural “A Chronicle of Salem.”
- The university has offered free summer concerts open to the public.
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