Spark Your Imagination With These Public Arts Events
Highlights From Dickinson's Spring Calendar of Arts
We're planning a dynamic mix of public arts events at Dickinson! Each one is designed to inspire, spark conversation and bring new ideas to light. Here are some highlights.
Visiting experts and artists
Dickinson will welcome renowned poet, essayist and biographer Molly Peacock to campus this spring as the 2026 Stellfox Visiting Scholar. Peacock will give a public reading in February as part of her Stellfox Visiting Scholar residency. Scholar and author Shannon Jackson will give a public lecture on the role of the arts in democracy and how some seek to build community, expose inequity and explore the meaning of democracy through the arts.
Carolina Alamilla, Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb, Heike Liss, Timothy McCall and Britny Wainwright are among this spring’s visiting experts in the visual arts. Liss is the current Sylvia J. Smith ’73 Artist-in-Residence, and Karsch-Chaïeb is the Max Kade German Language Artist-in-Residence. They will exhibit new works created during their six-week residencies during a joint show in The Trout Gallery. McCall, an expert in Renaissance art and cultural history, will unravel how art and identity intersect across time and culture during the Robert Weiner Lecture in the Arts. Alamilla and Wainwright are guest-curators of a Trout Gallery exhibition of works by six women artists. The opening reception will include a curators’ talk.
Neta Pulvermacher is an Israeli American choreographer, dancer and director and a professor of dance at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Prior to her one-woman concert, The Archive, audience members will be invited to peruse her personal family records, which inform her choreographic research.
Students in the spotlight
The Dickinson Choir will perform Voices for Uncertain Times, a stirring musical response to turbulent times. The program will include selections by Brahms, Fairouz and Orff. The Dickinson Orchestra will present the Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah by Camille Saint-Saëns and Brahms' Symphony No. 2 in D Major, along with a performance by soprano Annabelle Bagdon '28 (music), winner of the student concerto competition. The Jazz Ensemble will play hits from across the decades. Students in the chamber music and performance studies programs will bring us two chamber music concerts and four noonday concerts.
The 2026 Mermaid Players musical, Into the Woods, weaves familiar fairy tales into a modern story about hope, challenge and community. It will run Feb. 27 to March 1. Dickinson’s Dance Theatre Group will present its annual concert, Freshworks: An Evening of Student Choreography, April 24-26.
Student-curator Allie Gonzalez '26 (American studies) will lead a special Trout Gallery tour in February. She'll discuss her work on the Trout Gallery exhibition A Measure of Value. Class of 2026 art-history majors will illuminate Eadweard Muybridge’s pioneering motion studies in their capstone exhibition, opening at the Trout Feb. 20. A few days later, they'll explain how they brought the exhibition to life during a lunch & learn session. Similarly, graduating studio-art majors will share their newest works in an exhibition opening April 17. The following week, they’ll also discuss their creative journeys.
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Published January 22, 2026