Majors & Minors

Sarofim School of Fine Arts

The Sarofim School of Fine Arts at Southwestern University offers a world-class arts education where students work closely with award-winning faculty in the areas of Art History, Music, Studio Art and Theatre. 

Southwestern University is one of only a handful of undergraduate liberal arts universities that support a separate school of fine arts. We believe in enrolling students who are engaged learners, ready to grow both in and out of the classroom, and eager to explore new regions of thought and creative expression. A Sarofim major is coupled with an engaging and diverse curriculum. 

Our programs lead to the BA in studio art, art history, music, and theatre, as well as the BFA in Studio Art and the BMus in music.  We also provide programs to minor in architecture and design. The Architecture & Design Studies minor has been discontinued and is only available to students currently in the program. All are designed to prepare graduates for a variety of paths in and out of the arts: teaching, professional work, or graduate school.

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AFTER SOUTHWESTERN

Featured Alumni Stories

Director of the Sarofim School of Fine Arts Administration

Laura Sewell ’95 Connects as an Alumna and Staff Member

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Living The Dream

Southwestern teaches Walker Lukens ’09 how to think and take on new challenges.

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Megan McCarty ’09

Megan McCarty ’09, Distinguished Young Alumna

A gifted cellist, Megan McCarty ’09 distinguished herself as a Southwestern music major by winning the University’s concerto competition, working as special musicological assistant for a series of performances organized through a Mellon Integrated Scholarly Community grant, and becoming the first scholar to recognize the existence of a song cycle by Franz Liszt (1811-1886).

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Fine Arts News

Southwestern University Unveils Newly Named Davidson Stage at the Alma Thomas Theater

The stage at Southwestern’s Alma Thomas Theater now has a name thanks to a generous bequest gift from Roger Edward Davidson ’49.

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Connor Bustos, Ava Dela Torre, and Isabella Fernandez in the Sarofim School of Fine Arts production of Luna

Revealing What It Is To Be Human: The Power of Theatre and Storytelling

The arts have been and continue to be an incredible vehicle in which people come into a shared space, carrying with them their differing lives and perspectives, and yet still experience this connection in their ability to feel collectively, to know what it is to be human. I had the privilege of speaking to Southwestern’s very own Assistant Professor of Theatre, Gabriel Peña, about his relationship to storytelling, his recent project directing of the Sarofim School of Fine Arts’ fall production of Luna, and the continued importance of the arts in sustaining a healthy society.

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Victoria Star Varner, Crossed Paths, engraving

Crossed Paths and Hyperbolics: Daina Taimina and Victoria Star Varner

February 18–March 9, 2025

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Fine Arts Events

Maureen Rendon ’21

Musicale

The Sarofim School of Fine Arts’ Music Department proudly presents Musicale. 

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Sarofim Music Series: Brahms and Friends

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SU Jazz Band

Southwestern University Jazz Band

The Sarofim School of Fine Arts is proud to present an outdoor concert with the Southwestern University Jazz Band under the direction of Christopher Washington.

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