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
"Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration" Exhibit at JANM
The Silk Roads: Connecting Communities, Markets, and Minds Since Antiquity
"Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration" Exhibit at JANM
The Silk Roads: Connecting Communities, Markets, and Minds Since Antiquity
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
- USC Dornsife's Sarah Portnoy and USC Annenberg's Amara Aguilar join forces to create the exhibit Abuelita's Kitchen: Mexican Food Stories and a related course teaching students how to use digital media to share oral histories.
- COMMENCEMENT 2022: Lauren Alexandra Sowa's experience as a child actor drove her decision to focus her USC doctoral studies on media, production culture and fandom.
- The Peace Pods project, a collaborative effort of USC Arts in Action, provides solitary space for people to decompress from everyday life.
- The USC Concert Band's spring concert on Sunday, "Inspirations," features music with a personal meaning to Director Jacob Vogel.
- Students from USC Roski School of Art and Design use their creative talents to reflect on nature, how it has endured, how it struggles, and most important, how humankind has used–and misused–it.
- The Book Prizes ceremony at USC's Bovard Auditorium is a prologue to this weekend's Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC, the nation's largest literary and cultural festival.
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.