Performance Venues
Explore the Lee Center for the Arts at Seattle University, featuring the John Eshelman Stage and Hedreen Gallery. This state-of-the-art venue enhances student and community artistic experiences through performances and visual art.
The Lee Center for the Arts
Seattle University's state-of-the-art performance and exhibition space is on the corner of Twelfth Avenue and East Marion Street. The facility was designed to enrich the artistic experience of Seattle University students, foster the development of new creative work by Seattle artists, and strengthen the infrastructure for arts education serving youth and adults in Seattle's Central District and wider community. The center houses the John Eshelman Stage, our "black-box theater" , scene shop, costume shop, green room, and dressing rooms.
It is also home to the Hedreen Gallery, a lobby art gallery for the public display of visual art by students and visiting artists visible through over 90 feet of plate glass windows along 12th Avenue.
The exterior décor coordinates with the surrounding campus, while the Hedreen Gallery invites engagement from visitors and passersby and helps to make the facility accessible and welcoming to the public.
Seattle University opened the Jeanne Marie & Rhoady Lee Center on February 14, 2006. The design of the Lee Center for the Arts won the 2006 AIA Seattle Chapter, Award of Merit, and the 2008 AIA Northwest and Pacific Region, Award of Merit.
Music Performances
Seattle University Choirs
The Choirs present quarterly concerts at Seattle First Baptist Church at 1111 Harvard Avenue, just a few blocks from campus. They also perform in the Chapel of St. Ignatius on campus.
Music Recitals and Visiting Artists
Students, faculty and renowned musicians perform in Pigott Auditorium, as well as the Chapel of St. Ignatius.
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