The BYU Department of Dance is inviting interested students to audition for the World Dance groups. For the World auditions, women need to bring a male partner.

Discover some secrets to success as a CFAC student by browsing the New Student Orientation resources. Watch the videos on our NSO page to learn more about students like you who have had great experiences in the CFAC departments.

This fall, the line-up for BYU Arts includes someanticipated guests, as well as some classics and exciting ventures by BYUstudents. Click through this article to see some of the exciting guests andproductions on campus this fall!

Room E-509 of the Harris Fine Arts Center is home to the BYU Department of Visual Arts (DVA). It is here that everything must come together in order to enable the success of BYU’s painters, art educators, art historians, graphic designers, animators, sculptors, illustrators and photographers. Each department in the college has a secretary, and there are few as seasoned as Sharon Heelis, who recently hit her 34-year mark as the secretary for the department.

The internationally acclaimed performance group Living Legends will be holding open auditions for all interested Latin American, Polynesian and Native American full-time BYU students August 28-30, 2014.

Robert Barrett, a BYU Department of Visual Arts professor, helped out with a sketch night at the Animal Inside Out exhibition at The Leonardo, a contemporary museum in Salt Lake City for science and culture. About twenty artists joined Barrett for a night of sketching a variety of animal models. The museum is showcasing several different animals, each of which is opened up and preserved, providing artists with the unique opportunity to sketch their muscles and deeper anatomy. The event was recently featured in the Deseret News.

BYU Arts is making nine performances available for purchase to everyone at 9 a.m. on Monday, August 18. Tickets have only been accessible to season ticket holders thus far, but the doors will open up to all on “Super Monday.”

As the Harris Fine Arts Center’s 50th anniversary celebration draws near, the building itself is gearing up for the festivities with the installation of new window wraps on the north and south side.

Photo by Jocelyn Horne. Hundreds of students graduate from BYU’s Department of Theatre and Media Arts every year, prepared to bring their technical and artistic skills into the worlds of theatre, education, television or film. But Hannah Kroff hasn’t let that stop her from becoming more marketable upon her graduation from the College of Fine Arts and Communications this August.

The BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications’ convocation for August graduates will be hosted in the de Jong Concert Hall of the Harris Fine Arts Center on Friday, August 15, at 8 a.m. Many students have overcome many challenges and obstacles on the journey to graduation. Below are but a few examples.

BYU students Wesley Tippetts and Daniel Clark received the Gold Medal for animation at the Student Academy Awards in Hollywood last weekend for their film, Owned.

Paul Broomhead's University Chorale will be performing a free short program tonight at 7:30pm in the Madsen Recital Hall. Come and enjoy the sounds of a summer eve.