Center for the Arts

Explore the creative landscape

Grow as a passionate, skilled, empathetic, collaborative, and confident artist who harnesses the power of the creative process into rewarding practices and careers for the enrichment of communities and of humanity.

Our students are ...

Interdisciplinary makers
Inventive thinkers
Collaborative leaders
Skilled technicians
Culturally aware community-builders 

What you’ll do: Perform, produce, and turn ideas into reality. Work across disciplines to create visual art, graphic and theatrical design, music, theatre, dance, new media, and photography. Collaborate with students, world-class guest artists, and dedicated, professional artists on the faculty. Learn how to give and receive feedback that will make you a valuable team member and leader. Explore your own interests and then take your art into the local, national, and international community! 

Where you’ll learn:

• Create visual art in spacious classrooms on the river bluffs.    
• Perform in some of the region’s best theatres and music venues, tv and recording studios.   
• Learn in major markets like Chicago, Kansas City, New York, Vienna, Paris, Rome, Edinburgh, and London on our field trips and abroad programs.

How you’ll contribute:

Our graduates are artists, musicians, composers, publishers, educators, choreographers, producers, conductors, filmmakers, directors, stage managers, actors, and leaders in the media, business, law, and academia.   

They are accepted to leading arts internships, graduate programs, and national and international scholarships, including Fulbright fellowships. They make the world a better place with their passion for the arts and their power to transform and uplift humanity.

Find out more about our creative learning community, coursework, and faculty.

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