VCUarts (https://arts.vcu.edu/) in Richmond, Virginia offers a variety of graduate and undergraduate degrees
in design, fine and performing arts, art history, and art education, with a unique emphasis on creative
immersion. Far more than receiving simply an education or preparation for a career; students leave VCUarts
with the practical, professional and personal skills needed to make a life in the arts, no matter how they define
it. That is why VCUarts’ programs emphasize both doing and knowing: why the majority of its faculty are
working artists, designers, scholars, and performers and why they encourage students to take advantage of the
many academic and intellectual opportunities that come with being part of a research university. Today,
VCUarts graduates can be found throughout the academic and professional fields and have been recognized
with everything from Emmys to MacArthur Fellowships.
