Performing and Visual Arts — Articles

Looking for a college or university with great Performing Arts programs? These schools across the West and Midwest may have just what you're looking for.

These schools in the Northeastern and Southern US offer amazing Visual Arts programs. Your dream school could be only a button click away!

Planning to study Music, Dance, or Theater in college? These performing arts schools in the Northeastern and Southern US are great places to earn your degree!

Start your visual arts college search with this list of colleges and universities in the Midwestern and Western US that are looking for students like you!

Interested in pursuing theatre in college? Learn about auditions and admission, theatre curricula, degree options, and so much more with this comprehensive guide!

If you're a musician who wants to study music seriously in college but is also committed to academics, a double degree might be a good fit for you.

Here's everything you need to know about the most important part of your music school application: the audition.

If you're planning to continue your arts education in college, you'll need a strong application portfolio. Here's how to build the best one possible.

There are plenty of jobs to be found for arts majors, no starving required. Take a look at what these former arts majors did with their degrees.

Finding the perfect college audition monologue can be hard, but sometimes the best monologues can be found in the most unlikely of places.

Strengthen your college auditions and wow the judges with these tips and tricks!

Tips for selecting your best work for your college application.

From directing to costume design, there are tons of career options off stage (and beyond).

Art inspires us and takes us to new places. It helps us see the beauty in the world and feeds the soul. It also happens to be a very hard field to get into...if you don't know where to look.

Love the arts but not majoring in them? You don't have to give up your watercolor-painting, tap-dancing, horn-playing habits just yet!

A few tips to consider when compiling a college admission art portfolio, so that you might give it the "wow factor" the admission office is looking for.

Are you in graphic design? Or planning to be? If you're considering pursuing new opportunities in graphic design, check these suggestions on securing and thriving in a graphic design job.

Art in its many forms, all those things of beauty for beauty's sake, may not bring home the bacon all the time, but they certainly nourish the soul. Here we explore the most mainstream avenues of the arts and the surprisingly varied careers to which they may lead.

There has never been a better time to pursue an arts education. U.S. colleges and universities offer many fine programs that encompass the full range of creative disciplines.

If you're planning on applying to an art or architecture school, be prepared for a few extra requirements along with your typical college application.

People often think as creativity as something that is reserved for artists, writers, film makers, and the like. The truth of the matter is that creativity is something that everyone needs, often on a regular basis. Nowhere is this more true than when you are in college.

"Music is a complex form of expression which defines us as human. It opens us to vivid images, moves us to tears, speeds up our heartbeats, and transports us to other places and times."

Recreational therapy, including specialties in dance and art, may be the ideal way to combine a love of dance, art, or music with the desire to make a difference in the lives of others.