The School of the Arts and Architecture provides a full range of course offerings and degree programs through its six departments: Architecture and Urban Design, Art, Design, Ethnomusicology, Music and World Arts and Cultures. It also houses two research centers: the Center of Digital Arts and the Center for Intercultural Performance.
The mission of the School is to educate exceptionally creative artists, performers, architects, and scholars, who are enriched by a global view of the arts and are prepared to serve as cultural leaders of the 21st century. By balancing practice and theory, the curriculum assures the understanding of both the interdependence and integration of creativity, performance and research. Students have unparalleled opportunities to learn from and interact with distinguished faculty who rank among the most innovative of contemporary artists, scholars and architects.
Currently, the top priorities include incorporating new technologies through the expansion of the Center for Digital Arts, providing more scholarships, improving the facilities, and enhancing links to the community.
The School of the Arts and Architecture also comprises the UCLA Center for the Performing Arts, one of the largest arts presenters in the nation; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, which contains the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts; the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History; and the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden.
1997-‘98
MILESTONES INCLUDE:
The
fundraising gala Encore, Celebrate the Return launched the public phase of the arts
component of Campaign UCLA and the re-opening of Royce Hall. More than 1,000 attendees
raised in excess of $1.4 million for the arts.
The
Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation provided a $1 million pledge over three years to provide
support for OperaUCLA and for an outreach initiative, the Gluck Fellows Music Performance
Program
The Ethnomusicology Archive received an $80,000 grant from the National Endowment
for the Humanities to preserve field recordings. The Fowler Museum received $250,000 from
The Getty Grant Program to continue electronic cataloguing of the collection
The
Center for Intercultural Performance received a renewal of funding from The Ford
Foundation for its Asia Pacific Performance Exchange Program (APPEX) and $250,000 from The
Rockefeller foundation to involve critics and writers in the APPEX program.
