Area of study
Art & performance programs
Turn your creativity and expression into a successful career with art and performance programs at UT. In this study area, you’ll have the chance to explore a wide range of options in music, theatre, and fine arts. Our courses and professors will challenge you to expand your imagination, evolve your talents, and demonstrate your skills to the world.
Your future as a professional
Art and performance students at UT have a world of opportunity open to them as studies in this area translate into a variety of careers in many different industries—some of which may surprise you.
What you can do with a degree in an art and performance program:
Art careers
- Animator
- Art therapist
- Educator
- Journalist
- Painter
- Stylist
- Web designer
Music careers
- Band director
- Composer
- Lawyer
- Marketer
- Publicist
- Researcher
- Sound or recording engineer
Cinema & theatre careers
- Actor
- Agent
- Filmmaker
- Photographer
- Producer
- Screenwriter or playwright
- Set designer
Employers hiring graduates
- Advertising or public relations agency
- Gallery
- Local theatre
- Magazine
- Museum
- Orchestra
- Radio station
- School or university
- Studio
- TV station or motion picture company
Studying at UT
Unrivaled academics
At UT, our nationally recognized art and performance programs will equip you with the knowledge, experience, and skills you need to have a successful career. Our School of Art, for example, is in the top 20 schools in the country. We are also home to one of only 12 League of Resident Theatre (LORT) programs in the United States and the only public College of Music in the Southeastern Conference. Volunteers involved in art and performance programs also might have the opportunity to learn from professors who are at the top of their fields—some of whom have earned Emmy or Grammy awards or Oscar nominations.
Preparation for life after graduation
As a Volunteer, you’ll gain hands-on, real-world experience that will set you up for success after graduation and involve you in the local community. In fact, music students have the opportunity to give lessons to individuals, groups, and ensembles through the University Community Music School. Sculpture students have had the chance to partner with a nearby elementary school where they experienced installing their work outdoors for the first time.
Learn around the world
Vols also have opportunities to study and perform abroad. Art and performance students have traveled to London to sing in St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, studied film sites in Berlin, and analyzed contemporary art and fashion in Milan.
Where you’ll study
Our art and performance programs fall within our College of Arts and Sciences and our Natalie L. Haslam College of Music. You’ll find programs like printmaking, ceramics, and acting in the College of Arts and Sciences. And programs like choral conducting, percussion instruments, and composition can be located in the College of Music.
I could write and direct short films, grip, and gaff, shoot documentaries, learn the ins and outs of producing and budgeting a major motion picture, build sets and characters for stop motion animation – the possibilities were endless for what I was able to gain from my education. If I wanted to learn how to do something, the tools and support were only a phone call or email away.
Chloe
(’23)
Studio Arts
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