We're excited to have Grace Youn ’13 deliver the Spring 2026 Susan Resneck Pierce Lecture in Public Affairs and the Arts on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m. 

Join us for the Popular Music Ensemble directed by Rob Hutchinson and Dawn Padula. The program, Y2K and Beyond, will include music by Billie Eilish, Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, and more! The Popular Music Ensemble is part of the School of Music's Songwriting degree program launched in fall 2023, the first of its kind offered at a liberal arts university. 

SPRING 2026 MAINSTAGE

Fun Home
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Book and lyrics by Lisa Kron
Based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel
Directed by Jess K Smith
Music direction by Dr. Dawn Padula

Please save the date for our annual commemoration of the incarceration of Japanese American Citizens following Executive Order 9066. This year we are pleased to welcome Author Kiku Hughes to campus to discuss her book Displacement - A graphic novel in which a teenager is pulled back through time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II Japanese internment camps.  She will be doing a book signing at the event.

Originating in 1953, the Brown & Haley Lecture Series became the first fully endowed lectureship in the history of Puget Sound in 1981. The lectures are intended to make significant contributions to the understanding of urgent problems confronting society, emphasizing perspectives in the social sciences or humanities. In recent years, the Brown & Haley Lecture Series has invited an emerging scholar to offer two lectures speaking to two or more fields during their two-day residency.

The observance of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday has been a tradition at University of Puget Sound since before it was established as a national holiday in 1986. Please join us as we continue this tradition for the 40th year.

Originating in 1953, the Brown & Haley Lecture Series became the first fully endowed lectureship in the history of Puget Sound in 1981. The lectures are intended to make significant contributions to the understanding of urgent problems confronting society, emphasizing perspectives in the social sciences or humanities. In recent years, the Brown & Haley Lecture Series has invited an emerging scholar to offer two lectures speaking to two or more fields during their two-day residency.

Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore will discuss her new book Abolition Geographies, what abolition means, talk about how students can be involved in abolition work, and to discuss why we need human-centered approaches to rethinking our carceral systems. 

Join us for the reception of the exhibit, "everything left was carried" by Rebecca Padilla, as well as an artist talk.

See the best work from art classes in the last year at the opening night party and awards ceremony (with prizes). The Art Students Annual show is a Puget Sound tradition. Students enter work from art classes, and a juror selects artwork for the show, which will be in Kittredge Gallery for four weeks.