UNCG College of Visual and Performing Arts

UNCG College of Visual and Performing Arts
Main Building of the School of Music
Address
100 McIver Street Greensboro, North Carolina  United States
Information
Type	Public
Established	July 1, 2011
Dean	Dr. Peter Alexander
Faculty	100
Number of students	900
Campus	Urban
Website	performingarts.uncg.edu

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro College of Visual and Performing Arts (formerly known as the UNCG School of Music, Theatre and Dance or SMTD) is an undergraduate and graduate institution for the performing and visual arts that is a college within the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Greensboro, North Carolina. The College requires an audition on top of an application to the University for entry. The College is divided into four separate schools; Music, Dance, Theatre, and Visual Arts. The College offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs. Performances for the schools of Dance, Theatre, and Music are held at the black box dance theater, Taylor Theatre, Brown Theatre, the School of Music Concert Hall, and UNCG Auditorium (formerly Aycock Auditorium). The School is the largest and most comprehensive performing arts program in North Carolina and one of the largest in the Southeastern United States and the entire country.

The College of Visual and Performing Arts is home to over nine hundred student majors and over one hundred faculty members. The College was created on July 29, 2016 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with the unification of the discipline of art with the former School of Music, Theatre and Dance. The dean of the school is Dr. Peter Alexander. The School is separated into four units: the School of Visual Arts, School of Dance, School of Music, and School of Theatre. The University Concert/Lecture Series (formerly the Performing Arts Series) and UNCG Auditorium remain under the umbrella of the School.

Dance was first taught as part of the Women's Physical Education Program at UNCG when the university was known as the State Normal and Industrial School. In 1963, the university created a department comprising four divisions: Health Education, Physical Education, Dance, and Recreation. The Arts Forum had been created in 1943 which brought students and faculty together in painting, music composition, choreography, and writing. Virginia Moomaw was hired in 1945 and became a voice for dance at the Women's College. In 1949 the President of the University of North Carolina, Dr. Frank Porter Graham, approved the Graduate Creative Arts Program which established MFA degree programs in painting, music, writing, and dance. The major in dance was introduced in 1957. In 1970 the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation was formed. In 1980 it was renamed the School of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. In 1984 the instructional divisions were changed into separate departments. In 1989 the Dance Department moved into the Rosenthall Gymnasium and in 1991 became the School of Health and Human Performance. In 2010, the Department of Dance was combined with the Department of Theatre and the School of Music to create the School of Music, Theatre and Dance. In 2016, the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance merged with the Department of Art to create the College of Visual and Performing Arts.