Moody Center for the Arts
Whether you spend time using the audio visual editing booths or visit the maker space, you’ll find the Moody Center for the Arts features multiple spaces dedicated to encouraging students to challenge conventions through art.
Media Gallery
Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK)
Shepherd School of Music
Moody Center for the Arts
Rice Makers Spaces
Performing Arts Spaces
⭐ Rice Makers Spaces
Dedicated work spaces are interspersed throughout Rice campus. Some of the most popular are:
The Moody Makerspace, which is a 5,000-square-foot interdisciplinary lab that includes a wood shop, metal shop, paint booth, rapid prototyping areas, and a classroom.
The Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK) provides space for interdisciplinary teams to conceive, design and test prototypes to solve real-world engineering design challenges.
The Digital Media Commons (DMC) offers hands-on training, assistance with and access to the essential tools for creating a wide variety of digital projects.
⭐ Performing Arts Spaces
Rice University offers several performing arts spaces for our students. One of the newest on campus is the Brockman Hall for Opera. This new building houses the Lucian and Nancy Morrison Theater, a three-tiered, 600-seat, European-style theater with an orchestra pit for 70 musicians. It is the first theater with this particular configuration among U.S. universities and conservatories.
Alice Pratt Brown Hall houses our Shepherd School of Music. Ranked among the top 10 undergraduate programs in the country, students at the Shepherd School regularly perform in concerts, operas and recitals. The facilities include a 1,000-seat concert hall, an opera studio, 45 practice rooms and two courtyards.
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