![Pavilion Theatre on Penn State's University Park campus](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/images/_1280xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/facilities-pavilion-feature-1912.jpg)
The Pavilion Theatre, built in 1915, is a key venue for the Penn State School of Theatre. Designed by architects Frank Miles Day and Charles Z. Klauder, it originally served as a livestock judging arena. Today it is a 222-seat flexible arena/thrust performance space featuring a 288-dimmer-per-circuit lighting system, a state-of-the-art sound system, and a stage-sized studio directly under the stage, used for rehearsal and classwork.
HEART Symposium
The Pavilion Theatre was the perfect venue to host Arts and Design Research Incubator's HEART Symposium, which explored the junction of Health and art.
![Visitor viewing art posted on red wall.](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/images/_680xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/facilities-pavilion-gallery-heart11.jpg)
![Visitors in a darkened foreground viewing a video monitor above an empty stage.](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/images/_680xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/facilities-pavilion-gallery-heart10.jpg)
![A hand touching health-related illustrations and paper cut-outs in an art display.](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/images/_680xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/facilities-pavilion-gallery-heart09.jpg)
![Hands opening a folded paper pop-up with a mandala drawing.](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/images/_680xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/facilities-pavilion-gallery-heart08.jpg)
![Visitors talking in shadows along a mezzanine-level walkway; close-up of art pieces hung on wall.](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/images/_680xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/facilities-pavilion-gallery-heart07.jpg)
![A viewer walking in front of art prints posted on a theatre walkway.](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/images/_680xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/facilities-pavilion-gallery-heart06.jpg)
![Hands opening pop-up paper heart artwork.](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/images/_680xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/facilities-pavilion-gallery-heart05.jpg)
![Exhibit visitors engaging with sculpture styled like a stand mirror, but with hands protruding from the glass surface.](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/images/_680xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/facilities-pavilion-gallery-heart04.jpg)
![Symposium presenters Bill Doan and Tyler Sperranza in the Pavilion stage area, presenting in front of a screen showing a drawing of a face surrounded by people](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/images/_680xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/facilities-pavilion-gallery-heart03.jpg)
![Penn State art professor Cristin Millet presenting in front of brightly colored screen.](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/images/_680xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/facilities-pavilion-gallery-heart02.jpg)
![Symposium presenters Tyler Sperranza and Bill Doan in the Pavilion stage area, presenting in front of a screen showing a human head severed from a chicken's body](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/images/_680xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/facilities-pavilion-gallery-heart01.jpg)