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Welcome from the Dean
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"On behalf of the faculty, staff, and students of the College of Visual & Performing Arts we welcome you as a new faculty member to USF.
We are really excited about your joining our faculty and the University. We have a great opportunity before us and we are in the best position possible
to take advantage of that opportunity."
Welcome Message from the Dean
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Welcome from the Associate Dean
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"Welcome to the College of Visual and Performing Arts! You will find that there is an ever-changing array of fine performances, exhibitions, and arts events
to become a part of as you invest your creative/scholarly activities in the university and in the Tampa Bay community."
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Welcome from the School Directors
Wallace Wilson
Director of School of Art & Art History
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Marc Powers
Director of School of Theatre & Dance
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Wade Weast
Director of School of Music
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Margaret Miller
Director of CAM & Graphicstudio
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College of Visual & Performing Arts
OVERVIEW
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It is the vision of the USF College of Visual & Performing Arts to achieve national and international recognition as a distinguished center for the study, creation, and research in the arts. The College will be a visionary laboratory for the preparation of the next generation of artists, educators, scholars and audiences and will serve as a dynamic site for contemporary and traditional artistic creation and research in art, dance, music, and theatre.
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For everyone, the arts are one of the major means for USF to distinguish itself as an educational institution, a research center, and as a partner with the Tampa Bay community. For many students, artists, and supporters, the arts are the University of South Florida.
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The arts at USF are a collage of artistic disciplines and expressions. Included are three degree-granting schools - School of Art & Art History, School of Music, and School of Theatre & Dance - and two research and community-engagement units - the USF Contemporary Art Museum and Graphicstudio. All are involved in creative research and each educates, challenges, and inspires students for leadership in the arts.
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As an integral part of the campus, the College of Visual & Performing Arts currently consists of seven buildings including two theatres, a recital hall, exhibition facilities, adjunct resources, and laboratory facilities. There are nearly 150 full-time faculty and staff, more than 1,000 students majoring in the arts, and more than 3,000 non-major students taking courses each semester. Additionally, nearly 14,000 visitors and patrons attend over 250 annual performances, lectures, symposia and exhibitions.
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The College of Visual & Performing Arts offers bachelor's degree in studio art, art history, dance, music, music education, and theatre. Master's degrees include an MFA in studio art, MAs in art history, and music education, and a Master of Music in music performance, conducting, music theory, and jazz studies. The School of Music, in cooperation with the College of Education, offers a PhD in curriculum and instruction with a major in music education. In the near future, the College will launch a nationally oriented, limited-enrollment MFA in Dramatic Writing.
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Our Commitment & Promise
Our Strengths & Points of Pride
Taking Stock: Our Past 5 Years
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College of Visual & Performing Arts
Strategic Plan: 2002 - 2007
Theme
Advancing Contemporary and New Works Through Learning and Research in the Arts
Vision
The USF College of Visual & Performing Arts will achieve national and international recognition as a distinguished center for study,
creation, and research in the arts. The College will be a visionary laboratory for the preparation of the next generation of artists,
educators, scholars and audiences and will serve as a dynamic site for contemporary and traditional artistic creation and research
in art, dance, music, and theatre, while playing a critical role in the cultural vitality of the Tampa Bay region. More specifically, the
College will be nationally known for Research and Graduate Education that focuses upon the contemporary and new works in the
arts.
Mission
The mission of the USF College of Visual & Performing Arts is to conduct creative research and to educate, challenge, and inspire
students for leadership in the arts. The College provides an environment that is imaginative, significant, and contemporary, and
engages with local, national and international communities in arts initiatives.
Major Goals & Objectives
Goal I: Support and increase faculty and student research, scholarship, and creative activity in the arts. The College will
enhance its focus on scholarly and artistic innovation, which will include the creation of new works while specifically focusing upon
elevating all of the terminal degrees in the arts to national status.
- Objective IA. The College will increase support and rewards to faculty and students for research, scholarship and
creative activity that culminates in original and innovative approaches to the arts and scholarship (especially in the area of
contemporary, new works).
- Objective IB. The College will be recognized regionally and nationally for its terminal degrees in art, music, and theatre
by the number of faculty, programs, graduate students, and alumni identified in regional and national publications and
venues (MFA in Art, MM in Jazz, MFA in Dramatic Writing, PhD in Music).
- Objective IC. The College will be recognized regionally and nationally for original and innovative approaches to the arts
and scholarship by the number of exhibitions, performances, and publications identified in regional and national
publications and venues.
- Objective ID. The College will establish and be recognized for an Interdisiplinary Advanced Research Initiative in
Digital Arts.
Goal II: Develop an enrollment profile consistent with a research university. The College will enhance and implement new
graduate programs consistent with its vision and mission while specifically focusing upon the contemporary and new works in the
arts.
- Objective IIA. The College will increase its full-time graduate student enrollment by 5% each year.
- Objective IIB. The College will increase the quality of its graduate students as determined by increases in the number of
students applying to graduate programs, the number of applications outside of the region, and the number of applications
from quality undergraduate/graduate programs.
- Objective IIC. The College will improve the quality of the undergraduate student enrollment in the four arts disciplines by
strengthening student participation in honors programs and through increased recruitment and retention of students who
demonstrate above average SAT scores, high GPAs, and significant artistic abilities.
Goal III: Increase engagement with the university and the community. The College will be a center for exceptional artistic
experiences. The College will increase its engagement with cultural and educational organizations and venues with a specific
focus upon the contemporary and new works in the arts.
- Objective IIIA. The College will provide arts events to the university community through increasing special events
directed to faculty and staff and marketing directly to the constituencies, with a focus upon the contemporary and new
works in the arts.
- Objective IIIB. The College will develop relationships with selected arts organizations in the region and increase faculty
engagement with local arts and educational organizations annually.
- Objective IIIC. The College will establish and develop a Center for Performing Arts Research with initial emphasis on a
partnership with the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay and Choral Music at USF.
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