Folks in the visual and performing arts are not, as a rule, staid. Most artists push the edges and question the status quo. You could say the same for the new Visual & Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Connecticut State University, a playfully provocative and engaging building that questions the conventional. It shares these qualities with the students and faculty who inhabit its studios and performance spaces and who gain creative energy from the architecture.

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