The visual and performing arts welcome you to the newly completed Arts District on High Street! This vibrant hub for arts education, artistic expression and arts entrepreneurship is ready to show you everything the arts at Ohio State have to offer.
Educating future leaders, thinkers, creators and performers
These new buildings offer a state-of-the-art training ground for performing arts students and faculty and foster collaboration with other disciplines in the surrounding Arts District spaces.
Aligning passion with purpose
Students are not required to major in music or theatre to take part in of any of our myriad ensembles or productions and nearly all our performances in these buildings will remain free and open to the public. These spaces serve as an entryway for our neighbors and friends to participate in and experience the arts at Ohio State.
Driving economic and community health
As the flagship land-grant institution for Ohio, we must make the arts accessible to all — through our longstanding arts outreach initiatives and with this new entryway to campus, we advance diverse perspectives, cultivate empathy, deepen engagement and foster tolerance through the arts.
Educating future leaders, thinkers, creators and performers
These new buildings offer a state-of-the-art training ground for performing arts students and faculty and foster collaboration with other disciplines in the surrounding Arts District spaces.
Aligning passion with purpose
Students are not required to major in music or theatre to take part in of any of our myriad ensembles or productions and nearly all our performances in these buildings will remain free and open to the public. These spaces serve as an entryway for our neighbors and friends to participate in and experience the arts at Ohio State.
Driving economic and community health
As the flagship land-grant institution for Ohio, we must make the arts accessible to all — through our longstanding arts outreach initiatives and with this new entryway to campus, we advance diverse perspectives, cultivate empathy, deepen engagement and foster tolerance through the arts.
Timashev Family Music Building Features
- Five-floor building, with classroom, performance, studio and office space on all levels, and a lower level for mechanical and back-of-house operations
- Expansive lobby that connects the new Timashev Family Music Building to a renovated Weigel Hall
- A new 195-seat recital hall offers a new performance space, joining the existing 720-seat Weigel Auditorium
- Improved acoustics throughout the facility
- New large ensemble rehearsal space
- Studios for jazz and percussion
- New practice rooms for students
Theatre, Film and Media Arts Building Features
- Faculty, staff and students — previously located a 20-minute walk away at the Drake Performance and Event Center — join the Arts District in the heart of campus
- Five-floor building, with classroom, performance, studio and office space on four floors, a top-floor mechanical room and a lower level for mechanical and back-of-house operations
- New, state-of-the-art performance spaces, including a 450-seat proscenium theatre and a hybrid thrust/black box theatre
- Spaces for students to create, including a New Works Lab for new and experimental productions, a lighting lab, a design studio, and a costume shop
- Spaces for students studying film, moving image production and media arts, including two sound stages, editing suites, a sound lab and a screening room
Timashev Family Music Building Features
- Five-floor building, with classroom, performance, studio and office space on all levels, and a lower level for mechanical and back-of-house operations
- Expansive lobby that connects the new Timashev Family Music Building to a renovated Weigel Hall
- A new 195-seat recital hall offers a new performance space, joining the existing 720-seat Weigel Auditorium
- Improved acoustics throughout the facility
- New large ensemble rehearsal space
- Studios for jazz and percussion
- New practice rooms for students
Theatre, Film and Media Arts Building Features
- Faculty, staff and students — previously located a 20-minute walk away at the Drake Performance and Event Center — join the Arts District in the heart of campus
- Five-floor building, with classroom, performance, studio and office space on four floors, a top-floor mechanical room and a lower level for mechanical and back-of-house operations
- New, state-of-the-art performance spaces, including a 450-seat proscenium theatre and a hybrid thrust/black box theatre
- Spaces for students to create, including a New Works Lab for new and experimental productions, a lighting lab, a design studio, and a costume shop
- Spaces for students studying film, moving image production and media arts, including two sound stages, editing suites, a sound lab and a screening room
Connect with us
If you are interested in learning more about how to support the Arts District or any of our arts programming in the College of Arts and Sciences, please contact the Arts and Sciences Office of Advancement at ascadvancement@osu.edu.