The School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University, with more than 2,600 full-time students, is one of the largest art schools in the nation. The School hosts more than 300 on-campus performances and exhibitions in the visual and performing arts each year, and its faculty members and students are involved in hundreds more throughout metropolitan Richmond.
Students invest many hours in serious creative pursuit of the arts disciplines.
Artistic freedom is stressed, and students are exposed to a wide variety of artistic sensibilities and techniques. All students experience artistic applications using computers, and departments have fully equipped multistation laboratories. VCU's School of the Arts offers degrees in virtually every visual and performing arts discipline. Within the departments are various tracks of study. Painting and printmaking students can major in lithography, screen printing, etching, and various paint and mixed mediums.