The Modern Dance Department has had an exchange program with Finland and is in the process of establishing a faculty exchange with a university in Costa Rica. The Music Department's a cappella choir has regularly toured Europe during the summer. The College of Fine Arts is deeply committed to the global spirit of the International Center. The elasticity of our creative and intellectual energies are increasingly expanded by exposure to our international students, faculty, and travel. There has never been a society that did not speak the language of Art.
Some cultures still see art-making as the province of all citizens.
In our culture and in the culture of a university, the analytical tends to be valued over the suspect subjective internal world of things that cannot be objectified. We have much to learn about risking to reveal who we truly are to one another. This is the work of the artist in each of us. And it is the work of us all to create a gestalt of our world.