Spotlight | College of Visual & Performing Arts

Katie (bass) and Vanessa (violin) are adding their instrumental expertise to a hip-hop song that the sound production class is creating.

Music Majors Partner with Our Sisters’ Middle School

CVPA Music Majors volunteer with area middle school music program

Lara Henderson's fall 2022 motion graphics class pictured outside the amphitheater at UMass Dartmouth.

CVPA graphic design class partners with DATMA

Students gain real-world experience promoting non-profit artwork

Collaborative project by students in Social Practice Topics I (AXD 217) and City Life: Introduction to Urban Studies (URB 201).

A collaboration with Crime and Justice Studies convened students in discussions about local justice issues on the UMass campus.

Professor Hutchinson's students at work on the empty bowls project in the ceramics studio at the Star Store (spring 2021)

CVPA Ceramics in Public Service

CVPA Ceramics Professor Rebecca Hutchinson continues her longstanding commitment to art in public service.

New Bedford Electrical Boxes Become Artist Canvases

Students of CVPA Foundations classes bring new color to New Bedford with painted electrical boxes!

Part of an architectural tour of New Bedford. The style shown here is the Second Empire. Photograph courtesy of Pamela Karimi.

CVPA Student Awarded Fellowship

Art History major Kayla Rausch is the 2022 recipient of the New Bedford Art Museum/Artworks! Fellowship.

Dr. Sherwin leads the group in an outdoor performance in Bridgewater, April 2021.

Music with “a message of change”

Community choral group’s work goes beyond the recital hall

Architectural Styles of New Bedford

Travel through history with an architectural walking tour of New Bedford led by Prof. Pamela Karimi and the New Bedford Preservation Society!

Graphic design students worked with curator Jamie Uretsky to design branding and identity for the exhibition Uncommon Threads: The Works of Ruth E. Carter at the New Bedford Art Museum (Spring 2021)

CVPA Graphic Design learns through community engagement

AXD451 has a long history of working with community partners

Labor Education Center Artist Residencies

CVPA Community Engagement Initiatives is pleased to collaborate with the Labor Education Center (LEC) on two new CVPA student artist in residence fellowships!