Strategic Plan 2002 - 2007
INTRODUCTION
For more than a century, West Virginia University has invested in advancing the Arts and education for the region, the state, and the nation–offering instruction, programming, performances, and exhibitions. The College of Creative Arts continues to be dedicated to the creative development of art, dance, music, and theatre, with a distinguished faculty of artists, performers, musicians, and scholars who bring to the College a commitment to a creative process of artistic growth. This commitment is shared with each student in a rich environment of art exhibits, concerts, plays, and performances. In this environment, students are offered opportunities to acquire the knowledge, skills, and inspiration for professional success as artists and as teachers.
The Creative Arts Center, designed by Alex Mahood of Beckley, West Virginia, was completed in 1968. Phase II of the building was completed in 1973, and new ceramics and sculpture studios were added in1993. The academic units housed in the Creative Arts Center--Art, Music, Theatre--were joined to form the College of Creative Arts in 1982 (with Dance joining the College in 1994).
The facility, as it has evolved, is comprised of nine conventional classrooms, four computer labs, eight visual art studios, ceramic shops, sculpture shops, theatre wood and paint shops, a theatre costume shop, dark rooms, dressing rooms, music library, slide library, practice rooms, offices, and studios for the more than 100 faculty and staff members and 750 students of the College.
The performance areas include a Concert Theatre, a Continental style theatre seating 1441; the Gladys G. Davis Theatre, a 216-seat thrust style theatre; the Falbo Theatre, a 105 seat black box style theatre; the Choral Recital Hall, a 180-seat music hall; and the Vivian Davis Michael Laboratory Theatre, seating 75.
Visual Arts exhibits, featuring works by internationally recognized artists as well as students and faculty, are presented in the Paul and Laura Mesaros Galleries, located in the Main Lobby of the Creative Arts Center.The Division of Art offers Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees in Visual Art (with emphasis on Ceramics, Graphic Design, Intermedia, Painting, Printmaking, and Sculpture), the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts plus Certification Option (K-12), a Bachelor of Arts with emphasis in Art History, a Master of Arts in Studio Art, Art Education, and Art History, and a minor in Art History.
The Division of Music offers a Bachelor of Music degree in Performance (Band or Orchestra Instruments, Guitar, Organ, Piano, Voice, Woodwinds), Music Education, Jazz Studies, Music Composition, and Music History, a Bachelor of Arts with emphasis in Music, a Master of Music degree in Music Education, Performance, Jazz Pedagogy, Music Composition, Music History, Music Theory, a Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance and in Composition, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Music Education. It also offers a minor in Music.
The Division of Theatre and Dance offers Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Acting, Stage Design and Technology, and Puppetry and Creative Dramatics, a Bachelor of Arts with emphasis in Theatre (General Theatre Studies), an Master of Fine Arts in Acting, Stage Design and Technology with an emphasis in Scenery, Costumes or Lighting, and also offers minors in Theatre and Dance.
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