UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture

Motto	Fiat lux Let there be light
Type	Public
Established	1939
Parent institution	University of California, Los Angeles
Location	Los Angeles , California
Campus	Urban
Mascot	Bruins
Website	arts.ucla.edu

The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture (UCLA Arts) is a professional school at the University of California, Los Angeles. Through its four degree-granting departments, it provides a range of course offerings and programs. Additionally, there are eight centers located within the school.

History

In 1919, UCLA's leadership demonstrated an early commitment to offer students opportunities to explore the arts by the establishment of an art gallery and a music department. But in 1939 the College of Applied Arts was founded with the addition of a Department of Art, followed by the College of Fine Arts in 1960, with degrees available in art, dance, music, and theater arts.

Following academic restructuring in the late 1980s, the UC Regents formally approved the establishment of two schools: the School of the Arts and the School of Theater, Film and Television. In 1994 architecture and urban design joined the School of the Arts, which became the School of the Arts and Architecture (UCLA Arts).

Brett Steele was appointed dean of the School of the Arts and Architecture in 2017.

Departments

• Architecture and Urban Design
• Art
• Design Media Arts
• World Arts and Cultures/Dance

Facilities

Production, Research, and Exhibition Units

• Art & Global Health Center
• Art | Sci Center
• Center for Intercultural Performance
• Experiential Technologies Center
• Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts
• New Wight Gallery

Facilities

• Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center (comprising the Design Media Arts and Art departments)
• Perloff Hall (comprising the departments of Architecture and Urban Planning)
• Glorya Kaufman Hall (consisting of the World Arts and Cultures department)

Institutions

Three public arts institutions, including a major performing arts program (CAP UCLA), are located within the School of the Arts and Architecture. These institutions offer access to leading anthropological, historical and contemporary visual arts exhibitions and collections, as well as presentations by performing artists.

• Hammer Museum
• Fowler Museum at UCLA
• UCLA Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA)

Notable faculty

• Rebecca Allen, Professor of Design Media Arts
• Casey Reas, Professor of Design Media Arts
• Victoria Vesna, Professor of Design Media Arts
• Jennifer Steinkamp, Professor of Design Media Arts
• Erkki Huhtamo, Professor of Design Media Arts
• Peter Lunenfeld, Professor of Design Media Arts
• Christian Moeller, Professor of Design Media Arts
• Eddo Stern, Professor of Design Media Arts
• Peter Sellars, MacArthur Fellowship (1983), Distinguished Professor of world arts and cultures
• Catherine Opie, Professor of Photography
• Andrea Fraser, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio and Department of Art Chair
• Barbara Kruger, Distinguished Professor of New Genres
• Lari Pittman, Distinguished Professor of Painting
• Neil Denari, Professor of Architecture
• Thom Mayne, Professor of Architecture
• Sylvia Lavin, Professor of Architecture
• Greg Lynn, Professor of Architecture
• Mary Kelly, former Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio Art
• John Baldessari, former Professor of Art
• Charles Ray, former Professor of Art
• Chris Burden, former Professor of Art
• Mike Kelley, former Professor of Art
• Paul McCarthy, former Professor of Art
• Nancy Rubins, former Professor of Art

Notable alumni

• Full List