”Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
~ Mary Oliver
Artists can shape humanity.
Studying the Fine Arts broadens a student’s opportunity to cultivate their creativity within a diverse urban environment. Metro State offers accessible bachelor’s degrees in Screenwriting, Studio Arts, and Theater. Metro’s Interdisciplinary curriculum also includes digital arts, music, media and film production.
Our faculty are award-winning working artists and scholars. The Fine Arts Department promotes campus and community events such as gallery exhibits, artist talks, film screenings, music performances and theater productions of established playwrights as well as original student work.
Our student’s voices are seen and heard.
Screenwriting
The BA in Screenwriting Program teaches individuals how to create impactful, socially conscious stories for independent film and documentary. By developing their original voices and creative visions and employing a practice-based curriculum rooted in screenwriting, filmmaking, film studies, and critical theory with an emphasis on collaboration as a cornerstone of the creative process, students gain a comprehensive understanding of the film and moving-image ecosystem and leave the program well-prepared for a wide range of professional opportunities. Throughout the program, students get real-world experiences and enjoy an inclusive environment that values diversity and fosters an environment of belonging.
Studio Arts
Metro’s BA and minor in Studio Arts provides students with practical, conceptual and critical art training. After a number of core courses are completed, students have the opportunity to explore a variety of upper division coursework in such topics as painting, drawing, photography, digital arts, textiles, book arts, clay, sculpture, printmaking and art activism. Nationally and internationally exhibited faculty prepare students to contribute to contemporary, multi-disciplinary art practices.
Theater
Theater is a universal language that can develop and expand one’s communication skills, connection to creative ideas, and the ability to participate in profound social change. With a focus on new work and student-written plays, the program proudly offers a showcase for developing talents and provides opportunities for personal growth while working collaboratively within the artistic process. There are many ways for students to get involved, on stage and/or off; whatever skill or interest one brings, and regardless of major, the theatre program has a niche for all who wish to participate.