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Arts at
Rochester

Studying the arts

For students, artistic exploration happens in many disciplines and takes many forms, including inspiration, production, and expression.

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Music

In addition to the Eastman School’s programs, the College’s undergraduate music program combines performance and academic study within a liberal arts setting in subjects ranging from medieval plainchant to modern day hip-hop.

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Theater

Working with distinguished faculty, scholars, directors, designers, playwrights, authors, and guest artists, our students explore theater as text and context.

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Dance

Dance and movement studies at Rochester are characterized by a diversity of styles, techniques, and disciplines—from ballet to breakdance, improv to therapy, choreography to activism.

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Studio art

With visual studies and studio arts at Rochester, the focus is production. We encourage undergraduate students to choose their material or approach—and to then create.

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Creative writing

The creative writing faculty includes award-winning authors and the Department of English regularly welcomes to campus both established and emerging poets and fiction writers.

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Research

Studying arts at a research university allows for unique opportunities to connect artistry with scholarship.

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Two cultural gems

The University boasts two of our region’s arts and cultural pillars: the Eastman School of Music, one of the world’s premier music schools, and the Memorial Art Gallery, one of the few university-affiliated art museums in the country that also serves as a community art museum.

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