Extending Tradition, Embracing Innovation

• 158 full time faculty teaching approximately 1000 undergraduate and graduate students
• Combination of professional or pre-professional education with a liberal arts experience
• Offers 10 undergraduate degrees and 7 minors; and 6 degrees at the graduate level
• Student interaction with guest artists, studio critics, scholars, lecturers and practitioners on campus as well as in the field
• Far reaching domestic and international experiences

Mission

The School of Fine Arts cultivates and sustains a community that is centered on creativity, where the integration of a liberal education and the arts shapes our identity. Our efforts are realized through degree offerings in the departments of Architecture + Interior Design, Art, Music, and Theatre and through programs of the Miami University Art Museum and Performing Arts Series that enrich academic and cultural experiences across campus and throughout the region.

It is our mission to prepare students for global engagement as practitioners, educators, creators, advocates and patrons of the arts. We foster the development of professional skills and intellectual growth necessary for the pursuit of creative and scholarly inquiry by extending artistic traditions, while embracing a culture of innovation and change.

Through the transformative power of the arts, our departments and programs serve as a window to an ever-changing and diverse world, providing the knowledge and resources for our constituents to engage in their professions and in society as both artists and citizens.

View the School of Fine Arts Strategic Plan