Arts and culture ==
=== Center for Arts & Minds ===
The Center for Arts & Minds, founded in 2024, is the University's organizational body for arts and culture on campus. It seeks to forge and maintain partnerships with various creative bodies throughout southwestern Connecticut, fostering collaboration and creativity. Arts & Minds stakeholders on campus include:
The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts
The Fairfield University Art Museum
The Carl & Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies
The Center for Social Impact
The Patrick J. Waide Center for Applied Ethics
The Center for Coastal, Climate, and Marine Studies
=== Quick Center for the Arts ===
The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts is the major center of theatre and the arts at Fairfield. The center opened in 1990 and hosts events such as popular and classical music, dance, theatre, and programs for young audiences. It houses the 740-seat Kelley Theatre, the 150-seat Lawrence A. Wien Experimental (Black Box) Theatre, and the Thomas J. Walsh Jr. Art …