[1] The art school at Illinois State University provides a professional education for students desiring careers in the visual arts.The baccalaureate program provides students the opportunity to mentor with a faculty sponsor and to produce a professional solo exhibition prior to graduation.
There are also private instruction opportunities taught by professors, not teaching assistants, on all wind, brass and percussion instruments, as well as piano, voice, and strings, including classical guitar.
Featured guest composers have included Stephen Hartke, Steven Stucky, Joan Tower, Lee Hyla, Sydney Hodkinson and Augusta Read Thomas.
[5] The School of Theatre, Dance, and Film offers conservatory-level training within the context of a liberal arts education.
Students use digital media to explore areas of traditional creative art making in music, sound, still and moving imagery and typography to express ideas and solve problems.