School of Fine & Performing Arts

Technical excellence, creative vision, and real-world savvy. The School of Fine and Performing Arts is focused on helping artists, performers, designers, and managers develop all three.

Whether you're pursuing a career as a composer, choreographer, sculptor, or set designer, the School of Fine and Performing Arts provides an environment where you can challenge yourself, be challenged, and grow in your art.

Fine and Performing Arts faculty bring extensive professional expertise and networks from theaters, graphic and interior design firms, photography studios, fashion houses, dance companies, and all kinds of arts organizations. Our attentive faculty and small class sizes will help balance your artistic vision with the skills needed to survive and thrive after Columbia.

Our departments:

Art + Design
Arts, Entertainment, & Media Management
Dance
Dance Movement Therapy and Counseling
Fiction Writing
Music
Photography
Sherwood Conservatory
Theater