Department website: https://www.uwplatt.edu/department/performing-visual-arts

Department Chair: Dr. Laura Anderson
Office: 180 Doudna Hall
Phone: 608.342.1117
E-mail: andersla@uwplatt.edu
Academic Department Associate: Teresa Martin

Majors

Fine Arts

• Art Emphasis (BA)
• Art Education (BA/BS/BFA)
• Graphic Design Emphasis (BFA)
• Studio Art-Ceramics (BFA)
• Studio Art-Cross-Disciplinary (BFA)
• Studio Art-Painting and Drawing (BFA)
• Studio Art-Sculpture (BFA)
• Theatre Emphasis (BA)

Music

• Choral Education Emphasis (K-12)
• General Music Education Emphasis (K-12)
• Instrumental Education Emphasis (K-12)
• Instrumental Music Emphasis
• Vocal Music Emphasis
• Piano Emphasis

Minors

• Architecture
• Art
• Art History
• Music
• Music Theatre
• Theatre

About the Department and Majors

The UW-Platteville Department of Performing and Visual Arts offers degree programs in art, music, speech communication, and theatre. Art means two things:

1. Creative works and the process of producing them
2. The whole body of work in the art forms that make up the entire human intellectual and cultural heritage

When we study art, we involve ourselves in a particular set of processes, products, influences, and meanings. We recognize that art is expressed in various styles, reflects different historical circumstances, and draws on a multitude of social and cultural resources.

The terms arts, discipline, and art form refer to music, theatre, and the visual arts, and recognize that each of these encompasses a variety of forms and subdisciplines. When we speak of the arts, it means these arts disciplines taken together or, most inclusively, the totality of all the activities in the arts.

At UW-Platteville, speech¹ is considered a performance-based art.

1	National Standards for Arts Education, 1995 MENC.