The Arts
Museums & Galleries
The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art has a permanent collection of more than 6,000 original works including paintings, sculptures, prints, ceramics, photographs, and cultural objects. Among the artistic traditions represented are those of the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe and the South Pacific Islands. The museum also features a variety of changing exhibitions, and a full range of educational programs. Admission is free.
The Florida Museum of Natural History is Florida's state museum of natural history, dedicated to understanding and preserving biological diversity and cultural heritage. With more than 25 million specimens of amphibians, birds, butterflies, fish, mammals, mollusks, reptiles, fossils and plants, the Florida Museum is the largest natural history museum in the Southeast. Admission is free.
The College of Architecture Gallery hosts regular displays of student projects, and also showcases traveling exhibitions of significant works from noteworthy architects past present, providing you with exposure to historical precedents and contemporary currents in the field. "the gallery" in the J. Wayne Reitz Union features artwork by UF students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
The College of Fine Arts School of Art and Art History supports three campus galleries. The University Gallery hosts six exhibitions per year that bring current ideas in contemporary art to UF students and the surrounding community. The Focus Gallery provides exhibition spaces for students of the College of Fine Arts to show their work in a public forum. Grinter Gallery in Grinter Hall exhibits art created by international students and area artists, as well as traveling shows of internationally based art.
Music & Concerts
The College of Fine Arts School of Theatre and Dance hosts numerous musical, theatrical and dance events on campus in its Constans Theatre, Black Box Theatre and Dance Studios in the Nadine MacGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion. The H.P. Constans Theatre, adjacent to the Reitz Union, houses a 420-seat proscenium theatre, and State Two, a block box theatre with approximately 40 seats. The college's School of Music holds jazz, choral, orchestral, ensemble and solo musical performances in the University Auditorium.
Tickets for events at the Constans Theatre, Phillips Center, O'Connell Center and various other campus venues are sold at the University of Florida Box Office, 352-392-1653.
UF Performing Arts hosts a variety of musical and theatrical events in three venues. The Phillips Center for the Performing Arts attracts world-class symphony orchestras, Broadway plays, opera and large-scale ballet performances to its 1,800-seat facility. The University Auditorium includes a concert stage, seating for 867 and is suitable for musical concerts, special lectures, convocations and less technically demanding dance concerts and pageants. It is one of several university buildings included in the National Register of Historic Places. The Baughman Center is a small facility (seating capacity of 96) for silent meditation, public performances, weddings, memorial services, honorary society acknowledgments, and related types of activities.
UF's landmark Century Tower houses a cast-bell carillon; one of only four such instruments in Florida. Concerts are played on football Saturdays, commencement weekends and during other campus festive days, and fifteen-minute concerts are played most weekdays.
Student Government Productions sponsors performances by touring artists in the Stephen C. O'Connell Center. Check the calendars of special events for upcoming concerts and dates.
Theatre & Dance
The Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts attracts world-class symphony orchestras, Broadway plays, opera and large-scale ballet performances to its 1,800-seat facility. The Phillips Center also hosts UF Department of Theatre and Dance productions as well as local ballet performances. The H.P. Constans Theatre, adjacent to the Reitz Union, houses a 420-seat proscenium theatre, and Stage Two, a black box theatre with approximately 40 seats.
Tickets for events at the Constans Theatre, Phillips Center, O'Connell Center & various other campus venues are sold at the University of Florida Box Office.
Radio & Television
UF's College of Journalism and Communications is home to two television stations and four radio stations. WUFT-TV, Channel 5, has been the home of Public Broadcasting in north central Florida since 1958. Programming on WUFT emphasizes British drama, political comedy, film classics, children's programming, musical specials of all varieties, and virtually "something for everyone". A weekday news broadcast, News 5, is the most complete daily student newscast in the nation. WLUF-LP, Channel 10 (Cox Cable channel 6) is the cable system's educational channel, airing telecourses in conjunction with Santa Fe Community College. Educational programs from PBS and others are also offered.
WUFT-FM (Classic 89) and its repeater station, WJUF-FM (Nature Coast 90), are public radio stations serving North Central Florida. They present a distinctive blend of sounds: classical, jazz, folk, and world music; national, state, and local news; and special musical performances and public affairs programs. WRUF-AM, AM850, was Gainesville's first local radio station and is one of the oldest in Florida. AM850 serves 13 counties with six hours of local news daily from its 5,000-watt transmitter and has been the home of Gator sports for more than 70 years. WRUF-FM, ROCK104, is the top Active Rock station in the market. WRUF-FM, The Home of Gator Football, broadcasts its 100,000-watt signal to 16 counties.
Arts & Academics
Interdisciplinary centers within the College of Fine Arts enable traditional academic units (Art and Art History, Music and Theatre and Dance) to become part of a global campus. Through collaborative, multidisciplinary and intercultural arts projects, the Center for World Arts and the Digital Worlds Institute connect UF to the world through productions, cutting-edge technology, exhibitions and the creation of new works.