Fine and Performing Arts at MCLA

Our faculty provides you with an interdisciplinary arts education through foundation courses in music, theatre, art, and arts management.  You will gain a broad understanding of the studio, historical, theoretical, and economic dimensions of the arts, and you will have the opportunity to select a concentration or minor within the field.

Bachelor of Arts in Fine and Performing Arts Offers

Our major prepares you for job opportunities in music, theatre, museum work, art and music publishing, production, and artistic design.  Internships, apprenticeships, and student organized art exhibits and live performances are an integral part of the program and offer you the opportunity to gain professional and practical experience.  Internship and apprenticeship opportunities include placement in world class venues such as the Massachusetts Museum of Conntemporary Art (MASS MOCA) and Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Our students have the opportunity to demonstrate accomplishment in public performance or art exhibition.  MCLA Gallery 51, a collaboration with the city of North Adams, features the work of local artists including MCLA faculty and students.  Our students have represented MCLA well at auditions for the Institute of Outdoor Drama in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.