Mission & Goals
Mission Statement
Our educational mission is to acquaint SUU students with the visual and performing arts, and to educate and train our majors to develop careers and a life-long involvement in the arts.
The mission is fulfilled in two major ways: through the CPVA’s academic departments and graduate program offering a comprehensive curriculum, and the programming of frequent performances, exhibitions, and related events designed to give students opportunities to develop as artists and scholars and to enrich the campus and community.
Our mission also helps guide us in our goal of making the arts visible and accessible, exciting and innovative, and an integral part of the intellectual and cultural life of Southern Utah University and the surrounding communities.
The CPVA offers undergraduate degrees in the departments of Art and Design, Music, and Theatre Arts & Dance. In addition, we offer a comprehensive MFA graduate degree in Arts Administration. The curriculum and the efforts of the highly qualified faculty and dedicated staff are further enhanced by affiliations with the Tony award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival, the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, the Halversen String Quartet, and the American Folk Ballet.
We seek students who are highly motivated, dedicated, enthusiastic, disciplined, creative, and resourceful. We also challenge our faculty, staff, and students to achieve the highest standards of excellence. Graduates of the College of Performing and Visual Arts find successful careers in education as arts teachers or as artists, designers, musicians, performers, production specialists, scholars or arts administrators. Our graduates are regularly admitted to nationally prominent graduate and professional schools.