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Arts Divisional Overview

The world communicates across generations and cultures through the arts. The University of Washington offers degree programs, exhibitions, and performances that reflect the dual nature of the arts as creative endeavors and subjects of scholarly research. Through critical inquiry, technical training, and interdisciplinary and collaborative processes, our students develop as imaginative and enterprising artists, designers, scholars, cultural leaders, and arts advocates.

Learn more about the arts on the ArtsUW web site.

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Gabriel Solis UW Divisional Dean of the Arts

Gabriel Solis, Divisional Dean of the Arts

Divisional Contact
Scott Devenny
206-543-7045
sdevenny@uw.edu
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Arts News

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Dancing Across Campus

For the dance course "Activating Space," students danced in public spaces across the University of Washington's Seattle campus this spring.

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Celebrating Contemporary Indigenous Music

Markus Teuton, a musician and citizen of Cherokee Nation, explores contemporary Indigenous music through his academic work and as host of “Indigenous Jazz,” a radio show.

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All the World's a Stage — and a Game

Students in DRAMA 480 learn how techniques used in game design can be adapted for interactive theater productions. 

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