Arts at USC
The University of Southern California offers an outstanding collection of art schools within a research university setting–unique amongst its peers. USC’s six arts schools, including the USC Fisher Museum and the USC Pacific Asia Museum, collectively produce a diverse array of recitals, performances, exhibitions, screenings, and lectures year-round.
Architecture
The USC School of Architecture fuses history, theory, technology and design into a variety of degree programs that prepare students for the rigors of the professional design practices.
Art & Design
The USC Roski School of Art and Design’s faculty are internationally recognized artists who offer a progressive approach for experimentation in all forms of visual arts.
Cinematic Arts
The USC School of Cinematic Arts trains fully-formed media makers, collaborators, and scholars situated to flourish in their chosen career path.
Dance
The USC Kaufman School of Dance is at the forefront of creating a new model for dance—a hybrid art form expressed in new media, scholarship, studio practice, music, choreography and performance.
Dramatic Arts
The USC School of Dramatic Arts’ conservatory environment blends with the full academic experience found at a major research university.
Music
The USC Thornton School of Music consistently ranks among the top one percent of the nation’s music schools and conservatories.
USC Roski School of Art and Design: USC Wellness Campaign
Roski students created self-portraits that captured the complex emotions of living under COVID-19 safety protocols.
Arts Events
Mulyana: Modular Utopia
Precarity in Film: Experimental Ecologies
"Women in Football" Screening and Panel
Precarity in Film: Experimental Ecologies
USC Visions & Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative
The Arts and Humanities Initiative highlights USC’s commitment to interdisciplinary approaches, featuring a spectacular selection of events conceived and organized by faculty and schools throughout the university. Every Visions and Voices event endeavors to challenge students and expand their perspectives.
Arts News
- The one-day festival presents an inclusive safe space that challenges patriarchal oppression in the music industry.
- Academy Award-winning filmmakers Grazer and Howard will deliver the school’s commencement address, and Oliver — writer, producer and director of films including Girls Trip and Little — will receive the Mary Pickford Alumni Award.
- USC Annenberg Professor Josh Kun hopes to create a collaborative arts vision across the university’s campuses.
- The USC School of Dramatic Arts professor has thrived as an actor-writer.
- Actor, producer and television personality Brady and playwright, screenwriter and producer Shekar will speak during two commencement ceremonies on May 12.
- The Department of English, with the support of the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation and in collaboration with Kenyon College and the Kenyon Review, will award the $20,000 prize during a gala at USC on April 18.
Arts In Action
Arts In Action supports and creates work that builds upon USC’s pledge to address society’s most pressing issues. By providing resources and funding arts projects within the university and beyond, Arts In Action inspire seeds of change in our community that make a lasting impact.