Arts & Events Centers
The art and events centers at The Claremont Colleges host a variety of exhibitions, lectures, and performances for The Claremont Colleges community. Many of these programs are open to the public, see events for more information.
Arts & Events Centers
Unique in American higher education, the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum (the “Ath”) is a signature program of Claremont McKenna College. Four nights a week during the school year, the Ath brings scholars, public figures, thought leaders, artists, and innovators to engage with the CMC and The Claremont College community.
The George C.S. Benson Auditorium is Pitzer’s largest indoor event space and is as gorgeous as it is functional. This stadium-style auditorium is home to a large performance stage, cushy movie-style folding seats, and a ton of technology features to support almost any event.
The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College provides a space for some of Southern California’s most compelling and experimental exhibitions. Built to LEED gold standards of sustainability, the U-shaped museum defines a central courtyard, with a pavilion for events.
Bridges Auditorium is a premier college venue in Southern California, showcasing the best in lectures, music, and the performing arts. The auditorium has some 60,000 square feet of inside floor space, 14,000 square feet of porches and walks, and a 90-by-40-foot stage with 62-foot proscenium opening. Current seating accommodates about 2,494 people.
The Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music is a 550-seat concert hall within the beautiful grounds of Pomona College. Each year, from September through May, the College sponsors a broad spectrum of nearly 45 concerts encompassing classical, jazz, folk, Western and non-Western music. The performances, which are traditionally free of charge, are open to the campus and surrounding communities.
The award-winning Byron Dick Seaver Theatre Complex houses a 335-seat thrust-proscenium theatre, the 125-seat Virginia Princehouse Allen “black box” theatre, and two performance-ready studio classrooms.
Caryll Mudd and Norman F. Sprague Jr. Courtyard and Gallery
The Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts hosts exhibitions in the Caryll Mudd and Norman F. Sprague Jr. Gallery, which boasts high ceilings and versatile indoor/outdoor space and welcomes a variety of media and concepts. Located in the R. Michael Shanahan Center for Teaching and Learning, just outside the gallery includes an adjacent outdoor courtyard, which has been used as the location for HMC students’ annual Shakespeare productions, a longstanding tradition at Harvey Mudd.
The goal of the Clark Humanities Museum, which opened in 1970, is to give students the crucial opportunity to engage directly with original works of art and other artifacts of material culture related to their courses. The museum gives students an experience that sharpens critical inquiry, fosters interdisciplinary thinking, and offers the keen poignancy of authenticity in our increasingly virtual digital age.
In 1963, Garrison Theater of The Claremont Colleges opened to provide a facility for all seven institutions to use for theatrical productions, concerts, movies, lectures, and other events.
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery
The mission of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery is to serve as an important teaching instrument and visual resource in the education of Scripps women. The main purpose of the Gallery is to acquire, preserve, catalog, research, and exhibit works of art in Scripps College’s collection.
The Wayne ’73 and Julie Drinkward Recital Hall
The Wayne ’73 and Julie Drinkward Recital Hall is named in recognition of Wayne A. Drinkward ’73, former chair of the board of trustees, and his wife, Julie, who donated $2 million in support of the College’s new R. Michael Shanahan Center for Teaching and Learning. The 99-seat recital hall provides an intimate location for performances on the bottom floor of the Shanahan Center and serves as home to an annual concert series as well as student recitals and performances. While musical performances at a college known for STEM education may seem a bit unusual, the relationship between science and art runs deep at Harvey Mudd.
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