The Katzen Arts Center houses the Department of Art, Department of Performing Arts, and the American University Museum. Bringing all the visual and performing arts programs at AU, the Katzen Arts Center is designed to foster interdisciplinary collaboration in the arts. The center provides state-of-the-art instructional, exhibition, and performance space for all the arts disciplines.
The center features the extraordinary 30,000 square foot AU Museum, directed by Jack Rasmussen, with a variety of gallery spaces for exhibition of exciting contemporary art from the nation's capital region and the world, along with AU's own Watkins Collection and the collection of Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen.