Performing Arts Community
Live with other students studying the visual, creative, and performing arts. Preference is given to students of dance, music, and theatre arts.

You'll benefit from performances, a residence located near the fine arts campus, and use of public areas in Currier Residence Hall, including performance spaces, a commons area, and expanded computer services area, and other amenities.

At The University of Iowa, students have always had a variety of opportunities to act, sing, dance, write, play music, and express themselves creatively through Iowa’s many arts and performance activities and venues. Now students can enrich their experience at Iowa by choosing to live in the Performing Arts Living-Learning Community.

The community is open to first- and second-year students majoring in the visual, creative, and performing arts, with preference given to students of dance, music, art and art history, film, creative writing, and theatre arts.

This fine arts learning and living community serves a diverse group of artists, actors, musicians, dancers, and writers.

Benefits include:

• Having another venue outside the classroom that supports and sparks students' creative efforts
• Newly remodeled public areas in Currier Hall, including performance spaces, a commons area, an expanded computer services area, and other amenities for artists, filmmakers, writers, and performers
• A convenient location directly across the Iowa River from the fine arts campus, which gives students easy access to the Voxman Music Building, Theatre Building, Art Building, Art Building West, Halsey Hall (home of the Department of Dance), and North Hall (home of Space/Place Theatre)

First-year students only
This community accepts first-year students only; it does not accept transfer students.

How to apply
Indicate this living-learning community preference on your On-Campus Housing Application and Contract.

For more information
For more information, contact Kate Thompson in the Division of Performing Arts at 319-335-2708.