{"id":22,"date":"2026-06-02T14:56:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/visual-and-performing-arts\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:47:07","slug":"front","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/visual-and-performing-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Front"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns sidebar is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:45rem\">\n<p class=\"intro\">Art gives form to human aspiration, identity, power, and belief. It builds the empathy that holds communities together, drives the movements that change societies, and creates the shared experiences that remind us what we have in common. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world needs artists and thinkers who can help us understand art, and ourselves, better. In the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, students do three things at once: they develop studio and performance skills, they build the critical and historical frameworks to understand creative work in context, and they connect both to the real challenges of the world they&#8217;re entering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">    <a\n        class=\"clarku-block-card is-style-overlay\"\n        href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/visual-and-performing-arts\/academics\/\"\n    >\n                    <div class=\"clarku-block-card-img-container\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\"\n                \t\tloading=\"lazy\"\n                    alt=\"Students contribute to class discussion in the during the Art, the Public, and Worcester\u2019s Cultural Institutions course\"\n                    class=\"clarku-block-card-img clarku-block-card-img-square\"\n                    src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/visual-and-performing-arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/Art-Public-Worcesters-Cultural-Institutions-12.avif\"\n                \/>\n            <\/div>\n                            <div\n                class=\"clarku-block-card-content\"\n            >\n                \n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-academics\">Academics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We offer a Bachelor of Arts in Art History; Media, Culture, and the Arts; Music; Screen Studies; Theater Arts, and Visual Arts; with options to minor; including a minor in dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"arrow-link\">Explore<\/p>\n\n            <\/div>\n            <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">    <a\n        class=\"clarku-block-card is-style-overlay\"\n        href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/visual-and-performing-arts\/student-work\/\"\n    >\n                    <div class=\"clarku-block-card-img-container\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\"\n                \t\tloading=\"lazy\"\n                    alt=\"A student in a painting studio seated behind a canvas on an easel.\"\n                    class=\"clarku-block-card-img clarku-block-card-img-square\"\n                    src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/visual-and-performing-arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/creative-spaces.jpg\"\n                \/>\n            <\/div>\n                            <div\n                class=\"clarku-block-card-content\"\n            >\n                \n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-student-work\">Student work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Films, paintings, performances, research, photobooks, community projects \u2014 see what&#8217;s being made right now, how it reaches audiences, and where it takes our students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"arrow-link\">See the work<\/p>\n\n            <\/div>\n            <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-custom-content-position is-position-bottom-left\" style=\"min-height:70vh;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-111 size-full\" alt=\"Student tuning a guitar in the photography classroom.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/visual-and-performing-arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/VPA-Capstone-Projects-28.jpg\" style=\"object-position:48% 44%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"48% 44%\"\/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-80 has-background-dim wp-block-cover__gradient-background has-background-gradient has-gradient-2-gradient-background\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\"><div style=\"color:var(--clarku-color-dark-teal)\" class=\"eyebrow  has-text-align-left\">Signature experience<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-visual-and-performing-arts-capstone\">Visual and Performing Arts Capstone<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Where four years of creative and critical work come together \u2014 in public, in community, and on your own terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-dark-teal-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/visual-and-performing-arts\/academics\/capstone\/\">Explore the capstone<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:3rem\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<script>\r\n\r\n( function() {\r\n\r\n\tvar kinetics;\r\n\t\r\n\tdocument.addEventListener( \"DOMContentLoaded\", initKinetic );\r\n\t\r\n\tfunction initKinetic() {\r\n\r\n\t\tkinetics = document.querySelectorAll( \".kinetic\" );\r\n\r\n\t\tvar mutationObserver = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {\r\n\t\t\tmutations.forEach(function(mutation) {\r\n\t\t\t\tif( mutation.type == \"attributes\" ) {\r\n\t\t\t\t\tif( mutation.attributeName == \"data-is-intersecting\" && mutation.target.dataset.isIntersecting == \"true\" ) {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tanimateWords( mutation.target );\r\n\t\t\t\t\t} \r\n\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t});\r\n\t\t});\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\tvar mutationConfig = { attributes: true, childList: true, characterData: true }\r\n\r\n\t\tkinetics.forEach(function(el) {\r\n\t\t\tmutationObserver.observe(el, mutationConfig);\r\n\t\t\tparseWords(el);\r\n\t\t});\r\n\t\t\r\n\t}\r\n\t\r\n\t\r\n\tfunction animateWords(el) {\r\n\r\n\t\tvar spans = el.querySelectorAll(\"span\");\r\n\t\tvar duration = 3000;\r\n\t\tduration = spans.length * 120;\r\n\t\tif( el.dataset.duration ) {\r\n\t\t\tduration = el.dataset.duration;\r\n\t\t}\r\n\t\tvar interval = duration \/ spans.length;\r\n\t\tvar runningTotal = 0;\r\n\t\tvar currentInterval = 0;\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\tfor( var i=0; 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Analyze. Connect.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column sidebar is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left is-style-intro\">In the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, you\u2019ll develop technical and critical thinking skills in meaningful dialogue with your audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignwide has-parallax abut-end\" style=\"min-height:70vh;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><div role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Screen studies students building a set\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-277 size-full has-parallax\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/visual-and-performing-arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/Screen-Studies-Set-Construction-19.jpg)\"><\/div><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#786e66\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"min-height:90vh\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:45%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group padded has-background is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background-color:#02486b91\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left has-large-font-size\" id=\"h-make\">Make<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">In studios, rehearsal spaces, recording facilities, editing suites, and on stage, students develop technical mastery across a remarkable range of forms \u2014 drawing and painting, digital filmmaking and screenwriting, music composition and performance, theatrical design and playwriting, graphic design, and the curatorial practice of art history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:5%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center is-image-fill-element is-style-default abut-begin abut-end has-white-color has-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-78da6b6aca7d26a571d68a37003cc696\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group padded is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" id=\"h-analyze\">Analyze<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In seminars and research courses, students develop the analytical and historical frameworks that give their practice depth and direction. Art history majors engage the ethical debates reshaping how museums think about meaning, ownership, and value. Screen studies students examine how genre, ideology, and representation operate across a century of moving-image media. Theater students learn to read a script simultaneously as playwright, director, actor, and historian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/visual-and-performing-arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/ICA-Fieldtrip-80.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Toby Sisson points out a detail of a sculpture to a student at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston.\" class=\"wp-image-75 size-full\" style=\"object-position:76% 61%\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignwide has-parallax\" style=\"min-height:70vh;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><div role=\"img\" aria-label=\"A student conducts a performance a Mechanics Hall, Worcester\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-1111 size-full has-parallax\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/visual-and-performing-arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/Festival-Concert-011.avif)\"><\/div><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#513c38\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"min-height:90vh\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:5%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:45%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group padded has-background is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background-color:#02486b91\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-connect\">Connect<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Students have documented water scarcity research in Mexico City, written plays performed at the Kennedy Center American Collegiate Theatre Festival, and made films selected for competitive festivals across the United States and internationally. Worcester and Boston put them inside a working creative ecosystem \u2014 the Worcester Art Museum, the Hanover Theatre, ArtsWorcester, and Company One are professional partners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:2rem\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull padded has-warm-gray-background-color has-background is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4d569fc5d6a0609a7dca2dbf5957ba14\" id=\"h-news\">News<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-stretch is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">    <a\n        class=\"clarku-block-card is-style-overlay\"\n        href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2025\/10\/02\/toby-sisson-selected-for-risd-museum-residency\/\"\n    >\n                    <div class=\"clarku-block-card-img-container\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\"\n                \t\tloading=\"lazy\"\n                    alt=\"Toby Sisson giving a gallery talk for the exhibit Us | Them | We\"\n                    class=\"clarku-block-card-img clarku-block-card-img-square\"\n                    src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/visual-and-performing-arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2022-Us-Them-We-Tour-30-1200x729-1.avif\"\n                \/>\n            <\/div>\n                            <div\n                class=\"clarku-block-card-content\"\n            >\n                \n<div style=\"color:inherit\" class=\"eyebrow  has-text-align-left\">Faculty mentors<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-small-font-size\" id=\"h-toby-sisson-selected-for-risd-museum-residency\">Toby Sisson selected for RISD Museum residency<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Her work, spanning drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, oil, encaustic, and mixed media, explores themes at the intersection of history and race in America.<\/p>\n\n            <\/div>\n            <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-536 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-faculty-work category-homepage-news category-music\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><figure style=\"aspect-ratio:1;height:170px;\" class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a 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target=\"_self\" >Clark conductor, choir revive the memory and power of Frederick Douglass<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"font-size:0.8em;\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-95491e93fc326886604e25335dc45f9a wp-block-post-excerpt has-text-color has-white-color\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Cailin Marcel Manson, director of music performance at Clark, conducted the world premiere of \u201cFrederick: A Cantata on the Life of Frederick Douglass,\u201d featuring a chorus that included the Clark University Choir. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-613 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-homepage-news category-visual-arts\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><figure style=\"aspect-ratio:1;height:170px;\" class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/visual-and-performing-arts\/the-embrace-project-art-as-a-way-of-belonging\/\" target=\"_self\"  style=\"height:170px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/visual-and-performing-arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/Wynne-Dromey-Studio-Art-Thesis-NH-00-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Embrace Project: Art as a Way of Belonging\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><h2 style=\"font-size:1.2em;\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-f346734983e51144dce089dada3f545d wp-block-post-title has-text-color has-white-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/visual-and-performing-arts\/the-embrace-project-art-as-a-way-of-belonging\/\" target=\"_self\" >The Embrace Project: Art as a Way of Belonging<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div 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