The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture (UCLA Arts) is a professional school at the

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. Through its four degree-granting departments, it provides a range of course offerings and programs. Additionally, there are eight centers located within the school.

History

In 1919, UCLA's leadership demonstrated an early commitment to offer students opportunities to explore the arts by the establishment of an art gallery and a music department. But in 1939 the College of Applied Arts was founded with the addition of a Department of Art, followed by the College of Fine Arts in 1960, with degrees available in art, dance, music, and theater arts. Following academic restructuring in the late 1980s, the

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formally approved the establishment of two schools: the School of the Arts and the School of Theater, Film and Television. In 1994 architecture and urban design joined the School of the Arts, which became the School of the Arts and Architecture (UCLA Arts). Brett Steele was appointed dean of the School of the Arts and Architecture in 2017.

Departments

* Architecture and Urban Design * Art * Design Media Arts * World Arts and Cultures/Dance

Facilities

Production, Research, and Exhibition Units

* Art & Global Health Center * Art , Sci Center * Center for Intercultural Performance * Experiential Technologies Center * Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts * New Wight Gallery

Facilities

* Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center (comprising the Design Media Arts and Art departments) * Perloff Hall (comprising the departments of Architecture and Urban Planning) * Glorya Kaufman Hall (consisting of the World Arts and Cultures department)

Institutions

Three public arts institutions, including a major performing arts program (CAP UCLA), are located within the School of the Arts and Architecture. These institutions offer access to leading anthropological, historical and contemporary visual arts exhibitions and collections, as well as presentations by performing artists. *

Hammer Museum The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur ...

* Fowler Museum at UCLA * UCLA Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA)

Notable faculty

* Rebecca Allen, Professor of Design Media Arts *

Casey Reas Casey Edwin Barker Reas (born 1972), also known as C. E. B. Reas or Casey Reas, is an American artist whose conceptual, procedural and minimal artworks explore ideas through the contemporary lens of software. Reas is perhaps best known for having ...

, Professor of Design Media Arts * Victoria Vesna, Professor of Design Media Arts * Jennifer Steinkamp, Professor of Design Media Arts *

Erkki Huhtamo Erkki Huhtamo (born 1958) is a media archaeologist, exhibition curator, and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Departments of Design Media Arts and Film, Television, and Digital Media. Research Huhtamo was born in He ...

, Professor of Design Media Arts *

Peter Lunenfeld Peter Lunenfeld (born 1962, in New York City) is a critic and theorist of digital media, digital humanities, and urban humanities. He is a professor and the Vice Chair of the Design Media Arts department at UCLA, director of the Institute for Tech ...

, Professor of Design Media Arts *

Christian Moeller Christian Moeller (born December 2, 1959) is a sculpture and installation artist, professor and Chair of the Department of Design Media Arts at University of California, Los Angeles UCLA He was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany where he lived an ...

, Professor of Design Media Arts *

Eddo Stern Eddo Stern (born 1972 in Tel Aviv) is a California-based artist and developer known for creating experimental video games, game art and machinima-based works. Stern was a founding member of the physical-computing based collective and artist-run s ...

, Professor of Design Media Arts *

Peter Sellars Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), whe ...

, MacArthur Fellowship (1983), Distinguished Professor of world arts and cultures * Catherine Opie, Professor of Photography *

Andrea Fraser Andrea Rose Fraser (born 1965) is a performance artist, mainly known for her work in the area of Institutional Critique. Fraser is based in New York and Los Angeles and is currently Department Head and Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio of the ...

, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio and Department of Art Chair * Barbara Kruger, Distinguished Professor of New Genres * Lari Pittman, Distinguished Professor of Painting * Neil Denari, Professor of Architecture *

Thom Mayne Thom Mayne (born January 19, 1944) is an American architect. He is based in Los Angeles. In 1972, Mayne helped found the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where he is a trustee and the coordinator of the Design of Cities po ...

, Professor of Architecture *

Sylvia Lavin Sylvia Lavin is a Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University, School of Architecture. She was previously the head of the Ph.D. in Architecture program from 2007-2017 and Professor of Architectural History and Theory at ...

, Professor of Architecture *

Greg Lynn Greg Lynn (born 1964) is an American architect, founder and owner of the Greg Lynn FORM office, an o. University Professor in the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and a professor at the UCLA School of the Arts a ...

, Professor of Architecture * Mary Kelly, former Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio Art * John Baldessari, former Professor of Art * Charles Ray, former Professor of Art *

Chris Burden Christopher Lee Burden (April 11, 1946 – May 10, 2015) was an American artist working in performance, sculpture and installation art. Burden became known in the 1970s for his performance art works, including ''Shoot'' (1971), where he arranged ...

, former Professor of Art * Mike Kelley, former Professor of Art *

Paul McCarthy Paul McCarthy (born August 4, 1945) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Life McCarthy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1945. He studied art at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and later continued ...

, former Professor of Art *

Nancy Rubins Nancy Rubins (born 1952) is an American sculptor and installation artist. Her sculptural works are primarily composed of blooming arrangements of large rigid objects such as televisions, small appliances, camping and construction trailers, ...

, former Professor of Art

Notable alumni

* Full List

References

External links

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