Being a student of fine arts means heightening your physical, intellectual and cultural awareness. UNLV’s fine arts program prepares students for professional careers by helping them hone and perfect their talents. A wide array of campus venues, including theatres, performance halls, studios and an architectural library, are available to students as they pursue their passions. Our artist-in-residence program brings pre-eminent creators to UNLV. It also brings them into the classroom.
College Highlights
The College of Fine Arts offers an average of 4.4 public performances and exhibitions per week during the academic year. These events vary from professional presentations such as the New York Philharmonic and American Ballet Theatre to concerts presented by faculty and students, lectures offered by distinguished artists/writers/critics such as Seamus Heaney, exhibitions of student work in galleries and the UNLV Film Series.
Mission
The College of Fine Arts, a creative nexus anchored within the vibrant and diverse culture of Las Vegas, boldly launches visionaries who transform the global community through collaboration, scholarship, and innovation.
At UNLV we illuminate the power of the arts amidst breathtaking advancements in science and technology. In doing so, we are creating a global destination at the forefront of transforming arts and design. To accomplish this we encourage agency, inventiveness, problem-solving, and big-idea thinking in our students, faculty, and staff. We make education relevant through curriculum and effective learning outcomes. We are passionate and compassionate, principled and supportive, joyful and kind. We believe in inclusion, invention, transformation, engagement, and rigor. These vital principles underpin all our efforts and guide us in fulfilling our mission.
Success Metrics
We measure achievement of our mission through:
- Student success that outpaces our peer programs and institutions in recruitment, retention, graduation, and community impact;
- Creativity, scholarship and learning accomplished by our students, alumni and faculty whose impact is visionary and positive;
- Success in hiring and retaining nationally and internationally renowned faculty;
- Collaboration amongst our faculty, across our diverse programs, throughout UNLV and with the diverse communities we serve in Las Vegas and globally; and
- Recognition within the UNLV community and beyond for our efficacy, passion, principle, compassion, and joy.
Accreditation
Architecture
Undergraduate
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities
Landscape Architecture Accrediting Board
Foundation for Interior Design Education Research
National Architectural Accrediting Board (M.Arch.)
Art
Undergraduate
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities
National Association of Schools of Art and Design
Dance
Undergraduate
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities
Film
Undergraduate
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities
Music
Undergraduate
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities
National Association of Schools of Music
Theatre
Undergraduate
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities
We wish to acknowledge and honor the Indigenous communities of this region and recognize that the university is situated on the traditional homelands of the Nuwuvi, Southern Paiute People. We offer gratitude for the land itself, for those who have stewarded it for generations, and for the opportunity to study, learn, work, and be in community with this land.