Museum of Art
One of the largest and best attended art museums in the Mountain West, the Museum of Art offers a dynamic exhibition schedule that includes displays of its permanent collection, world-class traveling shows and unique temporary exhibitions.
For additional information, please visit the museum’s Web site.
Department of Visual Arts
With a curriculum emphasizing both tradition and innovation, Brigham Young University’s Department of Visual Arts seeks to prepare students for professions in the visual arts while enriching others with an appreciation of both art and design. The core curriculum accommodates the wide variety of artistic and scholarly skills of students while providing enough flexibility to choose individual program direction.
For additional information, please visit the department’s Web site.
Department of Theatre and Media Arts
The Department of Theatre and Media Arts believes the study of theatre and media arts is truly a study of humankind and its attitudes as revealed in artistic expression. The university’s theatre program is designed to educate students in a basic foundation of dramatic literature, theatre history, theory, performance skills as both actor and director while providing new, innovative techniques in all areas of theatre design technology and production. BYU’s media arts program is designed to educate students with a foundation of film history, theory, and criticism, along with the fundamental production competencies in film, television, animation, and interactive multimedia.
For additional information, please visit the department’s Web site.
School of Music
The Brigham Young University School of Music embraces the university’s aims of providing an education that is spiritually strengthening, intellectually enlarging and character building. The faculty, administrators and staff all work to help the school’s students think clearly about diverse kinds of music and to create, perform and teach music with excellence. The school explores music within the context of a broad liberal arts education and religious instruction, infusing the lives of students with scholarly and creative experiences.
For additional information, please visit the school’s Web site.
Department of Dance
The Brigham Young University Department of Dance is committed to preparing reflective, articulate dance artists, teachers and scholars. Ultimately, the department hopes to cultivate dancers who honor and preserve the past, give voice to the present, and seek to define the future as it provides for study, research, experimentation, practice, performance, and the creation of new works. The department is dedicated to presenting wholesome dance to a global audience and generating interest and enthusiasm about this artistic medium.
For additional information, please visit the department’s Web site. To learn more about the department's recent transition to the College of Fine Arts and Communications, click here.
Department of Communications
Brigham Young University's Department of Communications is celebrating over 75 years of excellence. The department includes the university’s advertising, broadcast journalism, communications studies, print journalism and public relations programs. The department’s interactive labs include: the Advanced Advertising Lab (clients have included Volkswagen, Burger King and Nike), Bradley Public Relations (clients have included the Utah Department of Transportation, Mozy and Monopoly), the Daily News (broadcast on BYU Television), the Daily Universe (BYU’s daily newspaper), and the Eye tracking Lab (an experimental lab that monitors visual perception and analysis).
For additional information, please visit the department's Web site.
College of Fine Arts and Communications
The College of Fine Arts and Communications’ mission is to teach the disciplines of communications, dance, music, theatre and media arts, and visual arts; explore these disciplines’ application to various media; and expand their civilizing influence on the human spirit. The college’s activities are founded on spiritual values and each department strives for excellence and rigor in scholarship, performance, and creative activity. The college seeks a balance among these areas of endeavor that offers students a diverse education in preparation for professional contributions and a lifetime of service to humankind.
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College NewsFebruary 9, 2010
 Scholarship and Grant Deadlines Approaching
College and department scholarship and grant deadlines are just around the corner. For more information on available awards, please click here.
 BYU Public Relations Program Top 5 in Nation
BYU joins NYU, Howard University, Georgetown and Alabama as finalists for the PR Education Program of the Year award, to be announced March 11 in New York. Click here for more information.
 Young Company Presents A Thousand Cranes
The Department of Theatre and Media Arts’ Young Company are pleased to present Kathryn Shultz Miller’s A Thousand Cranes. Performances are Feb. 2-14 at 7 p.m. in the Nelke Theatre of the Harris Fine Arts Center. Two Saturday matinees are planned for Feb. 6 and 13 at 2 and 4 p.m. There will be no performances Sunday or Monday. Tickets range from $6-$11 and can be purchased online at byuarts.com, by phone at ext. 2-4322 or in person at the Fine Arts Tickets Office.
 Young Ambassadors Celebrate 40 Years of Performing
In celebration of its 40th year of performing, the Young Ambassadors will be presenting "The New Music Makers" in the de Jong Concert Hall Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 11-13, at 7:30 p.m., with a matinee performance Saturday, Feb. 13, at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $11, $10 or $8 with a BYU or student ID and can be purchased online at byuarts.com, by phone at (801) 422-4322 or in person at the Harris Fine Arts Center Ticket Office.
 Laycock Concert Features Renound Improv Violinist
The School of Music and the Laycock Center for Creative Collaboration in the Arts present LaDonna Smith, violist and composer, in concert Thursday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.
 Museum of Art Exhibition
The First 100 Years: Collecting Art at BYU tells the remarkable story of the development of the university art collection through the display of 150 of the outstanding works that have been acquired over the past century. This exhibition will be on view in the Marian Adelaide Morris Cannon Gallery on the museum’s main level through Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. Admission is free.
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