Arts at Tufts

Our students perform, create, and research the arts in concert halls, theaters, art studios, galleries, libraries, labs, and classrooms at Tufts and in its surrounding communities. Explore the Arts at Tufts.

New & Notable

Making a New World in Virtual Reality

An art school professor and his students talk about the vast potential of VR—and their work in it

Summer Projects Allow Students to Combat COVID-19, Racial Injustice

When COVID-19 derailed their summer plans, these Tufts students were awarded grant funding from Tisch College for projects to help their communities instead
Bookish: A Writer Reflects on Journeys and Memories

Mary Morris, J69, talks about her memoir “All the Way to the Tigers,” books that inspired her to become a writer, and what she’s reading now
Tufts’ Fall Festival of Plays Reinvents Theater for the Pandemic

Producing three plays amid COVID-19—and addressing the crisis of racism—required a lot of inventive thinking for drama staff and student actors
Stepping Up for Tufts

Tufts friends and volunteers are calling for a strong show of support for the university this Giving Tuesday

Spotlights

Music

Housed in the state-of-the-art Granoff Music Center, the Department of Music offers a rich array of classes, embracing music in forms from many different backgrounds, traditions, and cultures. Experience music in ways you can only begin to imagine with additional offerings made possible by the Music Engineering program, the university’s collaboration with the New England Conservatory, and the Community Music Program.
Creative Writing

The Department of English offers classes in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and journalism as part of the Creative Writing program, offered to both its majors and minors.
Drama & Dance

Drama programs at Tufts bring together hundreds of students to perform in three faculty-directed productions and over a dozen student-directed and designed shows each year. Dance courses cover a vast range of styles including African and Latin dance, ballet, kathak, hip hop, jazz, modern and musical theatre.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts

The School of the Museum of Fine Arts officially became part of Tufts' School of Arts and Sciences in July 2016. The SMFA at Tufts is an extraordinary art school, animated and enriched by its affiliation with a major research university and a world class museum. We offer students the opportunity to explore art in all of its diverse forms and expressions, while ensuring a high-quality liberal arts education.
Tufts University Art Galleries

The Tufts University Art Galleries engage with artists, scholars, and works of art to provoke conversation around today’s pressing cultural and social issues. Through exhibitions and programming focused on contemporary art, alongside broader research and collecting, we provide a pedagogical space for the Tufts community and wider publics. The Art Galleries are located in the Aidekman Arts Center on the university’s main Medford campus and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (SMFA at Tufts) in Boston.
Art History

Located in the greater Boston area, Tufts is an ideal place to study the history and theory of art and architectural studies from interdisciplinary and global perspectives. Students have the opportunity to get involved in the galleries on the Medford/Somerville and SMFA campuses or visit the many prominent museums in the Boston area such as the world-class Museum of Fine Arts.