Visual and performing arts at JMU are all about creating artists for the real world. Learn more about arts admissions at jmu.edu/arts/admissions.
Create your path
At JMU our visual and performing arts students are trained in traditional practices and new approaches and technologies. Our graduates shine because they receive excellent artistic training and also learn to leverage artistic expression and creative thinking.
Highlights
- Internships are available at each of JMU’s five on-campus art galleries.
- No matter which of the six concentrations you choose, being a JMU music major will change you and catapult your career.
- JMU artists have a wealth of top-notch facilities.
- Junior saxophone performance major Haven Kahn is the grand prize winner of the Petrichor International Music Competition in the under 21 category for 2023.
'JMU’s School of Music wasn’t just about the music. The JMU experience is about growing. It’s about surviving growing pains and being at a school that gives you the freedom to have growing pains.'
— Omar Thomas (’06), Assistant Professor for Boston’s Berklee College of Music
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