About Us
The John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities supports the intellectual and artistic endeavors of faculty and students by fostering collaboration, experimentation, and critical thought through a variety of seminars, symposia, working groups, arts and performance residencies, and exhibitions, reaching beyond the local and familiar to connect with diverse communities of writers, artists, performers, thinkers, activists, and innovators.
In recent years, the HCAH has deepened its commitment to the arts through its stewardship of the Campus Exhibitions Program and the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, advancing the Center's primary goal of cultivating interdisciplinary connections between classic humanistic study and contemporary artistic, intellectual, and ethical currents in the wider public world through vigorous inquiry, innovative artistic practices, and intensive exchanges.
Support for the Center comes from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Mellon Postdoctoral Program and the Mellon Tri-College (Haverford // Swarthmore // Bryn Mawr) Creative Residencies, the Leaves of Grass Foundation, the Kessinger Family Fund for Asian Performing Arts, the Koshland Humanities Center Directorship Fund, The E. Clyde Lutton '66 Memorial Fund for the Performing Arts, the Edwin E. Tuttle '49 Funds for the Arts, the Student Arts Fund and Haverford's general endowment income.