Champaign, IL 61820
217-333-1660
Kathleen Conlin, Dean
kconlin@ad.uiuc.edu
www.faa.uiuc.edu
Organizational Bio
The College of Fine and Applied Arts is committed to preserving and advancing the practice and exploration of the arts. As we enhance educational, research and professional opportunities, our students and faculty continue to establish themselves as leaders in the arts through their achievements and artistic practices. The College is comprised of the academic units for the visual and performing arts and for environmental design. No other arts college in the nation can boast having as many accredited programs that are ranked as highly overall. The extraordinary activities within the College's academic units are reinforced by the opportunities for enhanced learning offered by the College's auxiliary units: Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Krannert Art Museum, I space Gallery, Japan House, Sinfonia da Camera, and the East St. Louis Action Research Project.
The College includes the Schools of Architecture, Art and Design, and Music; the Departments of Theatre, Dance, Landscape Architecture, and Urban and Regional Planning
The College offers exhibitions, concerts, performances, lectures, master classes, and conferences in all areas of the performing and visual arts and the designed and built environment.
No other college of the arts in the country can boast having as many accredited programs that are ranked as highly overall. According to U.S. News and World Report, Art and Music continue to be ranked in the top ten (out of hundreds in those disciplines), and Theatre and Architecture rank in the top twenty (out of approximately 130 programs in each discipline). According to Dance Teacher Magazine (the only evaluative ranking tool in the discipline), the undergraduate program in Dance ranks third and the Dance graduate program fifth (out of approximately 100 programs). Landscape Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning, disciplines for which there is no widely accepted national ranking, compete with Harvard, Berkeley and Michigan for faculty and students.
About 470 faculty and staff members serve 1,850 undergraduate and 725 graduate students; more than 800 courses are offered by the College and attended by students from across campus. Our students participate in art in its many forms, they: cut and weld large pieces of metal, transforming them into graceful curves; manipulate the smallest pixels on a computer screen to create new shapes, forms and colors; bound across dance floors and theatre stages; and perform the most delicate movements to make instruments sing beautifully. They use the latest tools, technology and ideas to design and analyze buildings and landscapes, neighborhoods and cities.
Mission Statement
The College of Fine and Applied Arts is dedicated to the advancement, practice and understanding of the arts. The central focus of the College is the synergy between research and the preparation of students for professional careers in the creation and interpretation of the applied arts, visual arts, and the performing arts. Deeply related to that focus is the commitment to elevate and sustain the study of the arts as both a necessary mode of understanding and a vibrant expression of human experience within the local, national, and international communities. The College envisions itself as an international leader for research and practice in the arts with an emphasis on professional excellence, diversity, innovation, and preservation.