Our Calendar

03 April, 12:30 PM Relax and enjoy a lively midday concert by the Meadows Jazz Orchestra.

03 April, 6:00 PM Bob and Jean Smith Auditorium – Meadows Museum Amanda W. Dotseth commemorates the museum’s opening on April 3rd 1965 by learning about Algur H. Meadows and his vision to create a "Prado on the Prairie."

03 April, 8:00 PM Bob Hope Theatre - Owen Arts Center The Spring Dance Concert will feature choreography by Carlos R. A. Jones, Robert Battle and New York City Ballet founder George Balanchine.

04 April, 8:00 PM Bob Hope Theatre - Owen Arts Center The Spring Dance Concert will feature choreography by Carlos R. A. Jones, Robert Battle and New York City Ballet founder George Balanchine.

05 April, 2:00 PM Meadows Museum This Saturday, the museum’s standing public tour will have a special 60th-anniversary focus, exploring key works acquired during each of the museum’s past six decades.

05 April, 7:30 PM O'Donnell Hall - OAC2130 - Owen Arts Center The Music Composition Department presents its spring concert of exciting new works by SMU student composers.

05 April, 8:00 PM Bob Hope Theatre - Owen Arts Center The Spring Dance Concert will feature choreography by Carlos R. A. Jones, Robert Battle and New York City Ballet founder George Balanchine.

06 April, 2:00 PM Meadows Museum You’re invited to the Meadows Museum’s 60th birthday party! Enjoy art-making activities, games, and interactive gallery experiences while celebrating the museum’s six decades. And yes, there will be cake!

06 April, 2:00 PM Bob Hope Theatre - Owen Arts Center The Spring Dance Concert will feature choreography by Carlos R. A. Jones, Robert Battle and New York City Ballet founder George Balanchine.

08 April, 9:00 AM Meadows Museum Calling all little ones and their grown-ups! This program welcomes children ages two to five and their adults into the museum before it opens to explore art together.

08 April, 6:00 PM Bob Hope Theatre - Owen Arts Center Join us for a night filled with inspiring discussions and performances that explore the intersection of faith and the arts.

09 April, 7:30 PM Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center Arnold Schoenberg, "Pierrot lunaire"; Philipe Hurel, "Quatre Variations"

10 April, 5:00 PM Patchmade is a multi-media, cumulative solo show for Capri Woss's final year in the B.F.A. program.

10 April, 6:00 PM Bob and Jean Smith Auditorium – Meadows Museum Alejandro Vergara, Senior Curator of Flemish and Northern European Paintings, Museo Nacional del Prado, will focus on the art of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) by way of the collecting of his paintings by the Spanish Royal Family.

10 April, 7:30 PM Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center Join the Meadows Jazz Orchestra for an evening of jazz this spring semester.

11 April, 12:15 PM Virginia Meadows Galleries Meadows Museum gallery talks feature art research and perspectives from local guest speakers.

11 April, 7:30 PM Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center “Dreaming with the MWE...”will feature music by distinguished Meadows alumnus and composer Frank Ticheli, who will conduct one of his most recent works for winds and percussion, Fantastic Dreams (2023).

12 April, 1:00 PM Virginia Meadows Galleries Stop by the Sensory Cart in the galleries to explore art through the multiple senses.

13 April, 1:00 PM Virginia Meadows Galleries Stop by the Sensory Cart in the galleries to explore art through the multiple senses.

13 April, 2:00 PM A series of six 20-minute docent-led talks will spotlight a different decade and work of art, starting with the 1960s in January, and ending with the 2010s (and beyond) in June.

13 April, 4:00 PM Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center Professor of practice in piano Alessandro Mazzamuto.

13 April, 7:30 PM Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center Director Jonathan Jones and students invite you for a special evening to celebrate world music and culture!

16 April, 10:30 AM The Gates This informal program is designed for individuals with early-stage dementia, their care partners and family members.

17 April, 5:00 PM The Wait of Red is the solo exhibition for Naw Nhkum’s final year in the B.F.A. program.

19 April, 10:30 AM Meadows Museum Enjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction for ages 7-11.

24 April, 6:30 PM Members join Cristina Sol Aldrich, the Meadows Museum's 2023–2026 Center for Spain in America (CSA) Curatorial Fellow, for a discussion of the connection between Hearst, Meadows Museum founder Algur H. Meadows, and Luis A. Ferré, founder of the Museo de Arte de Ponce.

24 April, 6:30 PM A series of six 20-minute docent-led talks will spotlight a different decade and work of art, starting with the 1960s in January, and ending with the 2010s (and beyond) in June.

24 April, 7:30 PM Greer Garson Theatre / Owen Arts Center At a rural high school in Georgia, a group of lively teens are studying The Crucible while navigating young love, sex education and a few school scandals.

25 April, 1:00 PM Taubman Atrium | Owen Arts Center With this concert, we say good-bye to the graduating members of the Meadows Lyric Theatre.

25 April, 7:30 PM Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Ravel

25 April, 7:30 PM Greer Garson Theatre / Owen Arts Center At a rural high school in Georgia, a group of lively teens are studying The Crucible while navigating young love, sex education and a few school scandals.

26 April, 1:00 PM Drop by the Education Studio each month for the opportunity to explore materials and create art projects inspired by works on view at the museum.

26 April, 2:00 PM Greer Garson Theatre / Owen Arts Center At a rural high school in Georgia, a group of lively teens are studying The Crucible while navigating young love, sex education and a few school scandals.

26 April, 7:30 PM Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center This annual concert features Meadows’ most distinguished, jury-selected chamber music ensembles in dynamic and passionate performance.

26 April, 7:30 PM Greer Garson Theatre / Owen Arts Center In Arabia We’d All Be Kings follows a band of misfits, from a recently released ex-convict to a gun brandishing single mother, who are all patrons of the same bar.

27 April, 1:00 PM Drop by the Education Studio each month for the opportunity to explore materials and create art projects inspired by works on view at the museum.

27 April, 1:30 PM Enjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction in the galleries.

27 April, 2:00 PM Greer Garson Theatre / Owen Arts Center In Arabia We’d All Be Kings follows a band of misfits, from a recently released ex-convict to a gun brandishing single mother, who are all patrons of the same bar.

27 April, 2:30 PM Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center Celebrate the end of a year of beautiful music-making with this energetic and hopeful program from the Meadows Choirs!

28 April, 7:00 PM The 32nd annual benefit concert for SMU Meadows will feature the critically acclaimed Meadows Symphony Orchestra.

29 April, 6:00 PM Taubman Atrium | Owen Arts Center The Center for Creative Computation (C3) will present their Spring Showcase, featuring student and faculty work consisting of interdisciplinary crossovers of the digital with art, music, dance, game design and more.

29 April, 7:30 PM Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center The SMU Organ Studio will present its second spring recital with works of de Grigny, Bach, Vierne, Durufle and Karg-Elert.

30 April, 7:30 PM Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center Violinist Aaron Boyd, Director of Chamber Music at the Meadows School of the Arts, is joined by Meadows students for concert of masterworks by the Romanian genius, George Enescu, including his famous Octet and Sonata #3 for violin and piano "in Romanian F

01 May, 7:30 PM Greer Garson Theatre / Owen Arts Center In Arabia We’d All Be Kings follows a band of misfits, from a recently released ex-convict to a gun brandishing single mother, who are all patrons of the same bar.

01 May, 8:00 PM Bob Hope Theatre - Owen Arts Center This dance concert consists of new works created solely by the Meadows Division of Dance senior dance majors as the culminating project of their capstone dance composition course.

02 May, 7:30 PM Greer Garson Theatre / Owen Arts Center At a rural high school in Georgia, a group of lively teens are studying The Crucible while navigating young love, sex education and a few school scandals.

02 May, 8:00 PM Bob Hope Theatre - Owen Arts Center This dance concert consists of new works created solely by the Meadows Division of Dance senior dance majors as the culminating project of their capstone dance composition course.

03 May, 2:00 PM Greer Garson Theatre / Owen Arts Center At a rural high school in Georgia, a group of lively teens are studying The Crucible while navigating young love, sex education and a few school scandals.

03 May, 7:30 PM Greer Garson Theatre / Owen Arts Center At a rural high school in Georgia, a group of lively teens are studying The Crucible while navigating young love, sex education and a few school scandals.

03 May, 8:00 PM Bob Hope Theatre - Owen Arts Center This dance concert consists of new works created solely by the Meadows Division of Dance senior dance majors as the culminating project of their capstone dance composition course.

04 May, 2:00 PM Bob Hope Theatre - Owen Arts Center This dance concert consists of new works created solely by the Meadows Division of Dance senior dance majors as the culminating project of their capstone dance composition course.

10 May, 5:00 PM Pollock Gallery Please join graduating Art majors for the closing celebration of their artworks exhibited in the Pollock Gallery for the annual Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Fine Arts Qualifying Exhibition.

13 May, 9:00 AM Meadows Museum Calling all little ones and their grown-ups! This program welcomes children ages two to five and their adults into the museum before it opens to explore art together.