The Fine Arts Center & the Mullins Center
Although cultural and athletic events happen all over the UMass Amherst campus, if you like to get out, you’ll spend a lot of time at the Fine Arts Center and the Mullins Center.
The Fine Arts Center is UMass Amherst’s hub of cultural enrichment. Offering an eclectic range of performance and visual arts, the Center is a major force in the cultural, social, and academic life of the campus and the Pioneer Valley. The Center offers traditional and new work from around the world, in over 60 performances and 30 exhibits annually, and hosts dozens of innovative events such as hands-on workshops, master classes, and artist residencies. Students receive substantial discounts on tickets to performances, often paying as little as $4 and no more than $15 to see nationally and internationally recognized artists perform everything from jazz to classical music, theater, Broadway, opera, and dance.
Recent Center Performances:
· Blast II: Shockwave
· Jon Nakamatsu
· Mark Morris Dance Group
· STOMP
· Fosse
· Cirque Eloize
· Diane Reeves
· Grupo Corpo
· Kodo
· Rotterdam Philharmonic
· Rhythm in Shoes with the Red Clay Ramblers
The 9,000-seat Mullins Center is UMass Amherst’s state-of-the-art, multi-purpose arena. Mullins hosts events as varied as David Copperfield; speakers Maya Angelou, Elie Wiesel, and Bill Cosby; and rock concerts ranging from Alanis Morissette, Phish, and the Indigo Girls to Red Hot Chili Peppers, Elton John, Counting Crows, and Jurassic 5. When you’re in the mood for something more physical, you can head to the Mullins Center to ice skate for free on the Olympic-size practice rink, or cheer on the hockey team and the men’s and women’s basketball teams.
