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Explore the Arts at Carleton

Academic Departments & Programs in the Arts

College Arts Groups and Resources

  • Art Gallery
    The Carleton College Art Gallery hosts public art exhibitions and maintains a collection of approximately 1500 prints, contemporary photographs, paintings, sculptures, and other artifacts.
  • Arts Planning Committee
    The APC's guiding purpose is to make the arts a focal point of Carleton's educational program, positioning the College to be a national leader in the arts.
  • Film Colloquium
    The Carleton Film Colloquium brings films and filmmakers to Carleton, engaging the campus community in formal and informal discussions of contemporary film culture.
  • Gould Library Art Exhibits
    The Gould Library's Art and Exhibitions Program brings library users into daily contact with works of art, artifacts, and natural objects in a spirt of discovery and learning.

Student Arts Organizations

  • The Accidentals
    A women's a cappella singing group active at Carleton since 1991.
  • Carleton Anime Society
    The Carleton Anime Society exists to increase awareness of Japanese animation as an art form.
  • Carleton Literary Association (CLAP)
    The CLAP publication embraces all forms of creative expression, with a focus on campus issues.
  • DVDfest
    This annual student-produced short film festival gives student filmmakers four weeks to brainstorm, write, direct, produce, and edit a film.
  • Ebony II Dance Company
    Founded in 1977, Ebony II is a group dedicated to expression and community through dance.
  • Exit 69
    Carleton's oldest coed a capella group.
  • Experimental Theater Board
    ETB coordinates and funds broadly-themed theatrical productions, with Carleton students participating in every artistic and technical capacity.
  • Film Society
    Film Society screens independent, foreign, and classic films.
  • Folk Music Society
    The Carleton Folk Music Society promotes folk music appreciation and performance.
  • Knightingales
    The Knightingales are the second-oldest a cappella group at Carleton College, founded as an all-female group in 1982.
  • Carleton Singing Knights
    Formed in 1955 and still going strong, this men's a cappella group has become a Carleton institution.
  • Manuscript
    Manuscript is Carleton's student-run literary and art journal. They accept submissions of poetry, prose, photographs, paintings, drawings, and even sculpture
  • Nightshade
    Nightshade, a mixed a cappella vocal ensemble, performs selections from a variety of musical genres, including classical, jazz, spiritual, madrigal, and pop.
  • The Uninvited Company
    This group of students from Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges spend their summers producing and performing plays for the college and town communities.