Lewis Center for the Arts

05/28/2026

Jill Dolan, Annan Professor of English, professor of theater, and former dean of the college, will retire from Princeton University at the end of the 2025-26 academic year, transferring to emeritus status.
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“I’m so grateful for my 18 years on the Princeton faculty,” said Dolan. “I’ve worked with talented, thoughtful faculty colleagues, creative, ethical administrators, and caring, committed students, so many of whom have gone on to participate in the arts as artists or spectators. I’ll carry these foundational relationships and rich memories always in my heart.”

Professor Jill Dolan retires from the faculty of Princeton University at the end of the 2025-26 academic year.

05/27/2026

Congratulations to all Princeton University graduates, especially members of our Lewis Center for the Arts family whom we honored this Monday at Class Day. We'll miss you!
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Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts celebrates graduates from Class of 2026 in creative writing, dance, theater & visual arts.

05/23/2026

“What questions do I want to explore through my senior thesis?”

Tap the link in bio to discover how six seniors connected their minor in Theater & Music Theater to majors across disciplines: .Bui (), Matthew Cooperberg (, Physics), Ava Kronman (), (Practice of Art in ), Annalise Schuck (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering), and Grace Wang (). All were inspired to bring what they learned in the theater studio back to physics and engineering labs, classrooms, and research libraries—or vice versa.

05/22/2026

Computer Science major Mary Ma '26, who is pursuing a minor in Visual Arts, discusses her exhibition "swallow." Her work explores the boundaries of the body, the labor of touch, and marks left on or by the body. The exhibition was open to the public from May 4-8, 2026, in Hagan Gallery.

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05/21/2026

Special thanks to the more than 30 Princeton University alumni and 53 students who joined us last month for the third annual Arts At Work Career Day co-sponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts and Center for Career Development at Princeton University.

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Princeton University hosted a third annual Arts At Work Career Day for students at the Lewis Arts complex.

05/20/2026

Julianna Martin '26, a Practice of Art major with Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University discusses her exhibition "Sites of Erosion." Through experimental analog methods including mordançage, Polaroid emulsion lifts, and large-format silver gelatin prints, Julianna explored themes of place, aging, and decay and her exhibition was on view in the Hurley Gallery from April 13-24.

Learn more and watch video tours and see photos of past senior independent work exhibitions: https://bit.ly/4bsL60j

05/20/2026

Congratulations to the 56 Princeton University students awarded more than $162,000 for summer projects from the Lewis Center for the Arts including these Alex Adam ’07 Award winners Pixley Marquardt, Samuel Elijah Lee, and Somiya Schirokauer and Mallach Senior Thesis Fund winners Twyla Colburn and Gisele Sonnier.

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05/11/2026

Princeton University's Humanities Council has announced 38 new grants for innovative and collaborative projects taking place in 2026–27, including projects led by Lewis Center for the Arts faculty that highlight the richness of the humanities.

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Princeton University’s Humanities Council has announced 38 new grants for innovative and collaborative projects that will take place in 2026-27. Lewis Center for the Arts faculty members including Professor of the Practice and Director of the Program in Theater & Music Theater Jane Cox, Professor ...

05/11/2026

Director of Theater Jane Cox and Princeton alumni David Bengali ’04 and Stan Mathabane ’17 were among those nominated for Tony and Drama Desk awards. Congratulations to all!
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Current and past Lewis Center faculty members and guest artists, a past fellow, and Princeton alumni have been nominated for 2026 Tony Awards and Drama Desk Awards for their recent work on and off-Broadway.

05/05/2026

Princeton professor Yiyun Li has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for memoir for her 2025 book, "Things in Nature Merely Grow": https://bit.ly/4tViO5p

Li is the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities and a professor of creative writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts. She was at home in Princeton when her phone started to light up with congratulatory text messages from friends and colleagues. “My editor [Mitzi Angel] called at 3:25 p.m.,” she said. “I was overwhelmed and shocked.”