Featuring over 30 paintings, sculptures, photographs, prints, and fiber works from c. 1900 to the present, Queens, Gods, and Devotees foregrounds earthly and divine greatness, and their associated devotional objects and ritual practices. On view at the Cantor Art Gallery from August 25-November 24, 2026.
Brooks Scholar Sophie Rose Riopel ‘29 (saxophone & voice) performs a set of jazz standards inspired by the musical partnership between Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley, whose 1962 album collaboration brought together Wilson’s rising stardom and Adderley’s famously celebrated quintet.
BRKFST fosters individuality and community through creation, performance, and mentorship while providing education in movement technique, methodology, and choreography in breaking, hip-hop’s first dance style. STORMCLUTTER explores relationships and efforts to resolve opposing states of interpersonal tension and inner chaos.
Spanning nearly a century of musical styles, this program from Holy Cross Department of Music Faculty reveals how composers with remarkably different musical languages all found compelling ways to transform conversation into sound.
Reem Jubran’s Distinguished Visiting Practitioner residency opens with a screening of LA Rebellion, a PBS documentary featuring Jubran and historicizing diverse and oppressed voices as emerging storytellers of their communities’ experiences. The screening will be followed by a Q&A discussion.
Join us for a Working Writers Series presentation from the Creative Writing Program at College of the Holy Cross featuring award-winning poets Yona Harvey & Gary Jackson.
The Holy Cross Wind Ensemble presents Nightfall, a program inspired by the changing season and the transition from day into night featuring works by Giroux, Grainger, Standridge, Whitacre and more.
An ensemble of students and faculty present Julius Eastman’s infectious Stay On It, a minimalist classic that springs forth from a joyful, syncopated riff to more complicated textures that resemble free jazz.
For over four decades on the concert stage, the Grammy® Award-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ) has continually set the standard for expression and virtuosity among guitar ensembles. Their critically acclaimed transcriptions of concert masterworks provide a fresh look at the music of the past, while their interpretations of works from the contemporary and world-music realms continually break new ground.
Join us for a Working Writers Series presentation from the Creative Writing Program at Holy Cross featuring award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author R. F. Kuang.