Performing and Visual Arts
NSU takes center stage when it comes to supporting the arts.
NSU’s rapidly growing curricula in the performing and visual arts are highlighted by degree offerings in theatre, music, dance, and art. But it’s the innovative programs and community partnerships that compliment those areas of study that help NSU present an encore performance.
NSU’s recent merger with the Museum of Art │ Fort Lauderdale provides a new component of the arts curriculum while offering the best in visual arts exhibits and educational programs to South Florida. Through a partnership with the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, NSU’s on campus Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center brings the best local theater to the university and the community-at-large. It is also home to Ars Flores, NSU’s orchestra in residence, a unique variety of South Florida professional musicians paired with gifted secondary school students. The Black Box Theater, part of the Performing and Visual Arts Wing of NSU’s Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, is home to the community’s Promethean Theatre as well as numerous student productions. The wing also contains art and dance studios, orchestra and choral rooms, and scene and costume shops.
Art on campus includes a permanent installation by world-renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly, a 200-foot shark mural by marine artist and ecologist Guy Harvey, a Buddhist prayer wheel blessed by the Dalai Lama, and year-round exhibits at the Alvin Sherman Library gallery. NSU is also host to the annual South Florida International Blues Festival.
NSU’s role in the arts deserves a standing ovation.
