We sat down with the newly appointed head of the Department of Dance, Sara Hook. As Dance at Illinois launches a bold new curriculum, she leads the department at an important point in its history.
Singers have known for millennia that the acoustics of a performance space can affect how they perceive their sound and how they perform. But until recently, this understanding has been primarily anecdotal.
Construction on the FirstFollowers Learning Lab began in 2018 and is an ongoing project that uses design-build principles to teach carpentry, residential construction, and landscape skills to formerly incarcerated people in the Urbana-Champaign community.
What becomes of arts alumni? That is the question that ultimately launched the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), an ongoing research enterprise that collects, analyzes, and reports on survey data from arts and design graduates from across the United States.
Students across the UIUC campus had the opportunity to register for a new FAA course this fall titled Black Arts Today.
Arts can be a powerful agent for community change. As more communities adopt creative placemaking strategies, urban planners are reimagining how to collect, interpret, and share data to help transform communities.
Have you ever wondered where those tall buildings in Campustown came from? We dug into this question and found answers that were a lot more interesting than we expected at first.
The College Excellence Awards recognize faculty and staff who have demonstrated excellence and have made a positive impact on our college, students, units, and community. The recipients are selected by the FAA Executive Committee.
The faculty at FAA are dedicated to the advancement, practice, and understanding of the arts. Their central focus is the synergy among research, public engagement, and the preparation of students for lives in the environmental, visual, and performing arts. We’ve compiled some of their recent awards and accomplishments in research.
