Visit the College of Fine Arts booth at Uptown Normal's Sweetcorn Blues Festival Saturday, August 23 and Sunday, August 24.

CFA faculty: Dean's Travel Grants are due today, August 22.

CPA box office opens for regular ticket sales Tuesday, September 2

Purchase tickets for upcoming music and theatre events. The box office is open Monday through Friday from 11 am to 5 pm or call 309-438-2535.

Student season passes for non-majors will available for sale Monday, August 25.

Need to reach someone?

• School of Art - 438-5621
• School of Music - 438-7631
• School of Theatre (including Dance) - 438-8783
• Arts Technology Program - 438-8322
• Dean's Office - 438-8321
• University Galleries - 438-5487
• Center for the Performing Arts - 438-2535

Give the gift of education all year long-- Join Friends of the Arts.

Now is a great time for you to become a new member or to renew your current membership in Friends of the Arts.

The Friends provides the largest amount of scholarship funds to students in the College of Fine Arts and the Friends Board of Directors has allotted $26,000 for 2007-2008 year scholarships. The three schools – Art, Music and Theatre – each receive $8,000 for scholarships, and the Program in Arts Technology receives $2,000.

The College of Fine Arts' mission is to educate developing artists, performers, scholars, teachers, and therapists.  We believe in advancement of the arts within a diverse intellectual and social environment through collaboration in learning and artistic practice.  Underlying all our work is the commitment to the arts as a vital and fundamental cultural force necessary to the functioning of a democratic society and to the education of its citizens.