Every summer for more than 30 years, CSU Summer Arts has assembled dozens of the world's top creatives to be a part of our annual Festival -– to perform and to teach our students. For the festival, which is open to the community, we produce more than 30 live events each summer, spanning the spectrum of dance, media, music, theatre, visual art & design, and writing.
Some of the amazing artists who have appeared at Summer Arts include:
Dance companies
Urban Bush Women,
Diavolo and the
Bella Lewitzky Company
Theatre artists
Bill Irwin,
Edward Albee and the
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Musicians
Dave Brubeck,
John Santos and
the Kronos Quartet
Visual artists
Lita Albuquerque,
Ed Moses and
Vincent Desiderio
Writers
Lidia Yuknavitch,
Marilyn Nelson and
William T. Vollman
Media artists
Andrew Gordon,
Jaron Lanier and
Vilmos Zsigmond
See the Public Events Calendar
CSU Summer Arts will be hosted by Fresno State in Fresno, California, through the 2021 season.