Arts
Programs at CSUMB are interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary. In the arts, students can major in Music and Performing Arts (MPA), Teledramatic Arts and Technology (TAT), and VIsual and Public Arts (VPA).
The World Theater is a performing arts venue that presents campus events such as guest lectures and screenings, student capstones (thesis projects) and Capstone Festivals. They present a professional performing arts season of performance, music and dance.
The Teledramatic Arts and Technology Department offers cross-disciplinary study and practice of media and live performance. The program integrates the traditional disciplines of theatre, cinema, radio, broadcast, film and new media.
The Visual & Public Arts Department displays their original artwork throughout the campus with public installations and murals that paint the campus. Stephanie Johnson, Associate Professor in the Visual and Public Art Department, was appointed a 2012 Fellow for the Wildflowers Institute in San Francisco. As a Fellow she will “provide leadership in developing community think tanks and training programs”. With her doctoral studies in leadership, policy, and the public sphere, Stephanie will carry her seeds of courage, wisdom, and experience in diverse communities to the Wildflower Institute.
Music & Performing Arts Department offers choirs and activities to enrich the culture of CSUMB. They include a Gospel Choir, a Chorale and many music performers and lecturers. It also now offers theatrical classes, transferred from the TAT major it originated from. The Music and Performing Arts major offers a concentration in Recording and Technology and houses one of the area's best recording studios.
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“In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)