College of the Arts shuttered — abruptly, in stunning style — greater than 4 months in the past. Though its campus is locked up and operations ended, the almost 150-year-old establishment’s story isn’t totally resolved.
Questions stay over UArts’ closure. Workers and college are nonetheless combating to get solutions in regards to the monetary circumstances surrounding the college’s closure. They’re combating for pay as effectively. On the identical time, lenders and different collectors are looking for reimbursement by the chapter course of after UArts filed for Chapter 7 in September.
Extra existential questions hanging over the establishment, and the town of Philadelphia the place it resides, heart on what is going to turn into of its legacy. UArts performed a key position within the inventive life of an entire metropolis. What occurs to the area and future generations of arts college students now that the college isn’t any extra?
To discover these questions, we went to Philadelphia in August to speak with stakeholders. Check out the two-part function that emerged from these conversations.
