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Start A Movement We educate visionary artists, scholars and communications professionals ready to make an impact on the world around them.

Our mission

Challenge yourself to find your voice, hone your craft and make the world better.

At Meadows, you'll start creating on day one. You’ll do more than prepare for the future at Meadows—you’ll shape it in your first year. We challenge each student to develop his or her gifts to the highest level. We challenge students to find their unique voices and to develop the highest level of craftsmanship. While message and craft are the foundations of art, at Meadows we also practice entrepreneurship, outreach and engagement because they make an artist employable and relevant.

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Where Are They Now?

A Meadows alum helps mentor a current student.

Meadows Mentor Program Provides Students with Professional Advice and Guidance

The new mentorship program created by the Office of Alumni and Career Success pairs current students with alumni and other volunteers share career advice.

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Tour 51²è¹Ý Meadows!

Join us as our student ambassador shows the state-of-the-art performance spaces, classrooms, study areas and facilities. See where 51²è¹Ý students practice everything from visual and performing arts to communications!

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Meadows Wind Ensemble: A Night in Buenos Aires

Friday, September 13
The Meadows Wind Ensemble opens the 2024-25 season with a musical journey to one of the world’s most beautiful and romantic cities, with a program featuring tangos by a diverse range of composers.

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Ongoing Exhibitions

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The Legacy of Vesuvius: Bourbon Discoveries on the Bay of Naples

During the reigns of the Bourbon kings Charles III of Spain (who ruled as Charles VII of Naples from 1734 until 1759) and his son Ferdinand IV (1759 until 1799), the Mediterranean city of Naples established itself as a major European capital and key destination on the Grand Tour, even as Mount Vesuvius continued to smolder, threatening its environs. Throughout the latter half of the eighteenth century, these two monarchs funded archaeological excavations on the Bay of Naples that unearthed ancient treasures and fed into the craze for classical art that infused the Bourbon court.

September 15, 2024–January 5, 2025

Image: Villa Arianna, Stabiae, Flora, Early first century CE. Pigment on plaster, 15 x 12 5/8 in. (38 x 32 cm). Museo Archeologico Nazionale de Napoli. Photo © Foto Giorgio Albano.

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Big Wave

Aitor Lajarin-Encina’s Big Wave collection is a body of work that has an intense, immersive quality, and thick existential atmosphere, and draws the viewer into the various dreamy scenes where strange, odd, mysterious events and situations unfold and occur. They, like most of his paintings, are visual poems that invite viewers to dive into vignettes of existential suspense that aim to trigger philosophical ruminations about life, interpersonal relationships and relationships with the environment.

SEPTEMBER 5 – OCTOBER 2, 2024

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