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
"Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration" Exhibit at JANM
"Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration" Exhibit at JANM
"Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration" Exhibit at JANM
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
- Third-year pop performance program students become session musicians and producers at L.A.'s historic Village Studios.
- The celebrated musician, who died at 101, set a playing standard that continues today.
- Engineers provide solutions for refugees in film produced by team at the engineering school.
- James A. Muhammad will oversee Classical California, the No. 1 classical music radio station network in the nation, which operates KUSC-FM in Los Angeles and KDFC-FM in San Francisco.
- How USC and the American Film Showcase are changing the world, one film at a time.
- Through 12 years of hard work — first as a participant in USC's Neighborhood Academic Initiative, then as a USC Roski art student — Dayanara Saucedo kept one special person in mind.
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.