Visual & Performing Arts

About the Program

Express yourself creatively in the Visual and Performing Arts, transforming ideas into art through your chosen medium—from drawing to dance. Whether working independently or collaborating with other creatives, you’ll produce works with the potential to inspire, challenge, and delight others.

• Art & Technology: Combine artistic inspiration and 21st-century innovation in MPC’s unique program. Learn fabrication techniques and experiment with technology-based tools alongside traditional 2D and 3D art media.
• Art History: Study society, culture, and the human psyche through the lens of art. Explore works across cultures and geographic boundaries while developing critical thinking skills applicable to a wide range of careers.
• Art Photography: Use your camera to communicate meaning. Study the interplay of light, depth of field, and motion, and practice new skills in locales with historic importance to the photographic arts.
• Ceramics & Glass: Gain hands-on experience with clay, the wheel, and kiln, as well as glaze techniques. Build the skills to launch a multi-dimensional career in ceramics.
• Dance: Use your body as a medium of artistic expression. Choreograph, practice, perform, and learn the principles and concepts underpinning the art form.
• Graphic Arts: Develop skills to inform, entertain, and persuade through graphic novels, website animations, logos, printed posters, and more. Master artistic principles and modern-day tools for the trade.
• Jewelry & Metal Arts: Transform metal and gems into works of art, tools, and more. Learn historical and modern techniques and graduate with a portfolio to launch a commercial career.
• Music: Practice and perform while studying theory, technique, composition, and interpretation. Ground your passion in formal learning to create a musical career pathway.
• Studio Arts: Build competence in visual language while practicing technique in painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking. Contribute to a dialogue with other creators, past and present.
• Theatre Arts: Pursue your passion through rigorous academic study and hands-on participation in live productions. Explore performance, creative, and technical aspects of plays and musicals.

Student Testimonial

“The time I spent at the MPC dance department helped me develop a foundation for my educational and professional career as a performer. The faculty is invested in each and every student who walks into the studio, and they do an outstanding job in helping their students pursue a future in the arts.”

Nicholas Stettenbenz, MPC Alum