UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture

The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture (UCLA Arts) is a professional school at the University of California, Los Angeles. The school plays a vital role in the cultural and artistic life of the campus and the community. Through the six degree-granting departments, it provides a full range of course offerings and programs. Additionally, there are five centers located within the school.

Academics

Over 800 undergraduate and 400 graduate students have unparalleled opportunities to learn from and interact with 100 distinguished faculty who rank among the most innovative artists and architects of our time. A balance of practice and theory, built upon the solid foundation of the liberal arts, assures an understanding of the interdependence between creativity, performance, and research. In educating the whole person, the School strives to motivate and empower its students to serve as cultural leaders of the 21st century.

The School offers a truly cosmopolitan arena for study and experimentation that reflects the diversity of its students and faculty. Los Angeles, still young by most standards, continues to attract pioneers in the arts and sciences who embrace the forward-looking spirit, dynamism, freedom, and possibilities for innovation that characterize this city. While the heart of the school remains on the Westwood campus, its soul extends beyond the campus borders to the greater Los Angeles community with a wide variety of outreach programs designed by students, faculty, staff and alumni, and which center around concerts, exhibitions, symposia, and dance productions presented in cooperation with groups throughout Los Angeles.

"Achievements in the arts and architecture will continue to provide, as they have in the past, the most intimate and inspiring chronicle of our civilization. They reveal imagination and community while pointing to our future. UCLA Arts is committed to the education and training of professionals whose vision and contributions will continue this legacy," according to the Dean's message. [http://www.arts.ucla.edu/about_ucla/index.php]

History

In 1919, UCLA's leadership demonstrated an early commitment to offer students opportunities to explore the arts by the establishment of an art gallery and a music department. But in 1939 the College of Applied Arts was founded with the addition of a Department of Art, followed by the College of Fine Arts in 1960, with degrees available in art, dance, music, and theater arts.

Following academic restructuring in the late 1980s, the UC Regents formally approved the establishment of two schools: the School of the Arts and the School of Theater, Film and Television. In 1994 architecture and urban design joined the School of the Arts, which became the School of the Arts and Architecture (UCLA Arts).

Christopher Waterman was appointed dean of the School of the Arts and Architecture in 2003.

Departments

* Architecture and Urban Design
* Art
* Design | Media Arts
* Ethnomusicology
* Music
* World Arts and Cultures

Facilities

Centers

* Art | Global Health Center
* Art | Sci Center
* Center for Intercultural Performance
* Experiential Technologies Center
* EDA (experimental digital arts) space
* Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts
* New Wight Gallery

chools

* The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music (comprising the departments of ethnomusicology, music and musicology)
* Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center (comprising the Design | Media Arts and Art departments)
* Perloff Hall (comprising the departments of Architecture and Urban Planning)
* Glorya Kaufman Hall (comprising of the World Arts and Cultures department)

Institutions

Three internationally acclaimed public arts institutions, including a major performing arts program (UCLA Live), are located within the School of the Arts and Architecture. These institutions offer rich access to leading anthropological, historical and contemporary visual arts exhibitions and collections, as well as presentations by the world's most outstanding performing artists.

* Hammer Museum
* Fowler Museum at UCLA
* UCLA Live!

Notable Faculty

* Susan McClary, MacArthur Fellowship [citeweb|title=UCLA astronomer Andrea Ghez named a 2008 MacArthur Fellow|url=http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ghez-64006.aspx|publisher=UCLA|accessdate=2008-09-23] (1995), professor of musicology
* Peter Sellars, MacArthur Fellowship (1983), professor of world arts and cultures

ee also

* UCLA Band

References

External links

* [http://www.arts.ucla.edu/ UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture]