Mission

The mission of the College of Fine Arts is to:

• Prepare students to create, to teach, to participate in, to understand, and to value the arts;
• Sustain excellence in teaching, creative expression, and research in the arts;
• Be a source of art, knowledge, and inspiration about the arts for Arizona and the nation;
• Integrate the arts into the everyday life of Arizona citizens;
• Promote the arts as a means to understand our diverse and pluralistic world;
• Articulate the value of artistic intelligence as a mode of thinking and discovery.