About the College

Welcome to the College of Fine Arts & Communication. The College is the proud home of the performing and visual arts as well as communication and communication sciences and disorders.

The College Mission

The College of Fine Arts and Communication provides high quality educational programs to a diverse student population. The primary focus is to prepare artists, professionals, and scholars of the 21st century. Students will comprehend the complexity of visual and performing arts, communicative arts and sciences, and media through the study of their aesthetics, creativity, history, theories, and applications.

With expert faculty and staff in each discipline, the College of Fine Arts and Communication fosters a collaborative environment to engage and enrich the public, while serving as the cultural center of the region. It is important to the College of the Fine Arts and Communication that everyone understands how arts and communication serve, inform, and contribute to the totality and quality of life. To that end, the college recruits quality faculty, staff, and students, encourages their professional growth, and seeks public and private support to ensure excellence.

Facilities

Check out the College facilities—from performance theatres to music performance venues to student production facilities. 

The College is also actively involved the planning and designing of the Western Illinois University Performing Arts Center (PAC).  The Dean and College chairs and faculty are active members of the PAC Planning Committee.  Pelli Clarke Pelli of New Haven, CT are the architects/designers of the new Performing Arts Center.