Center for Arts & Letters

ARTS & LETTERS
Support the Arts

Founded in 1989, The Center for Arts and Letters serves as the organizational hub and central resource for arts and humanities public programming at Rockhurst.

Upcoming Events

CAL Liberate Your Mind logo

Deepen your appreciation for and engagement with arts and humanities through The Center for Arts & Letters' exhibitions, performances, lectures, readings, book discussions and more! Register early to secure your spot and receive email reminders.

David Tomas Martinez
Midwest Poets Series: David Tomas Martinez
November 7, 2024 - 6:30pm
Arrupe Hall auditorium
David Tomas Martinez is the author of two collections of poetry, “Hustle” (2014) and “Post Traumatic Hood Disorder” (2018), both from Sarabande Books. Martinez is a Pushcart winner, CantoMundo fellow, a Breadloaf Stanley P. Young...
34th Annual Ceremony of Lessons and Carols
December 7, 2024 - 7:00pm
Arrupe Hall auditorium
The Rockhurst University Chorus and Musica Sacra will join forces to present this traditional concert of Christmas music from a variety of countries and cultures based on seasonal scriptural readings. Music by award-winning contemporary composers...
Carl Phillips
Midwest Poets Series: Carl Phillips
January 23, 2025 - 6:30pm
Arrupe Hall auditorium
Carl Phillips is the author, most recently, of "Scattered Snows, to the North" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2024) and "Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022), which won the 2023...
Sarah Ghazal Ali
Midwest Poets Series: Sarah Ghazal Ali
February 19, 2025 - 6:30pm
Arrupe Hall auditorium
Sarah Ghazal Ali is the author of "Theophanies" (Alice James Books, 2024), selected as the Editors' Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst...
More Events
Greenlease Gallery
Blue clapperboard icon
Film Series
Icon - Blue open book to represent poetry
Midwest Poet Series
Icon - blue globe
ArtOberfest
Icon - Blue beaker with bubbles in liquid
Visiting Scholar Lecture Series
Icon - Ideas, silhouette of a head with a light bulb shining inside
Open Minds Book Discussion
Icon - Blue musical notes (eighth notes, eighth note)
Musica Sacra

MORE EVENTS COMING SOON!

join our mailing list
Subscribe

Our Mission

The Center for Arts & Letters is a hub for presenting cultural events and experiences that make multi-disciplinary connections across the Rockhurst campus and greater Kansas City. Our objective is to engage audiences with thoughtful, intellectually engaging, and socially relevant issues through liberal arts experiences to inspire cura personalis — “care for the whole person,” foster social action through contemplation and deepen appreciation for all expressions of human thought and culture.

Contact Us

Need assistance or have a question?

Please call 816-501-4510 or email us. We’d love to hear from you.