Austin Arts Center

THE AUSTIN ARTS CENTER IS THE HUB OF CULTURAL LIFE AT TRINITY COLLEGE.

The Austin Arts Center (AAC) is a vital learning, making, and convening space dedicated to fostering dynamic engagement with arts and ideas across and beyond Trinity’s campus communities and the Greater Hartford area. In all its functions, from professional productions and community-building initiatives to curricular engagements, the AAC strives to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment in which our imaginations are activated, vital conversations are nurtured, and new perspectives are possible.

Since its dedication in 1965, AAC has hosted a rich array of transformational artists and thinkers from near and far and has engaged students in creative, production, and administrative processes at every level. Named for Arthur Everett “Chick” Austin, Jr. (founder of the Trinity College Department of Fine Arts and the nationally recognized former director of Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum from 1927 to 1945), the AAC serves as an artistic home to Trinity College’s Departments of Theater and Dance, Music, and Studio Arts. The AAC houses key campus venues (Goodwin Theater, Garmany Hall, Widener Gallery, and Gruss Music Hall) and programs arts events in sites across campus and in collaboration with partner organizations.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

As a community at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, we acknowledge that we are on the unceded land called Suckiaug, or Black Earth, central to the lives of certain Indigenous peoples. The Connecticut River Valley has been home to Native people for millennia. Trinity College acknowledges the impact of marginalization on the Wangunk, Mahican, Nehantic, Nipmuck, Pequonock, Podunk, Tunxis, and Wappinger peoples, as well as other impacted groups. The Trinity community also honors the sovereignty of our neighbors, the Mashantucket Pequot, Mohegan, Eastern Pequot, Golden Hill Paugussett, and Schaghticoke nations. We commit to continue partnering with the Indigenous communities of Hartford and from across the state.

GET YOUR TICKETS FOR A LESSON FROM ALOES!

A LESSON FROM ALOES
Written by Athol Fugard
Directed by Vernice Miller
A HartBeat Ensemble Production
October 8-17, 2026
Goodwin Theater

FALL 2026 EVENT CALENDARS

MORE DETAILS TO COME ABOUT UPCOMING EVENTS! In the meantime, check out the calendars below and mark your calendar for the rich array of arts engagements at the AAC and across campus. Be sure to also bookmark this page and visit often to stay informed of event updates and additions.