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NARRATIVE ARTS
PERFORMING ARTS
VISUAL ARTS

The Schwartz School of the Arts is a place of creative exchange where students learn artistic responsibility and cultivate individual agency. At the Schwartz School we recognize that creative work flourishes best in an environment balancing independence, vulnerability, and joy. The school advocates self-discipline in practice, candor in collaboration, rigor in questioning, and exuberance in play, toward the goal of “a life changed through the arts.”

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"This design education helped me see that I'm not a producer—I'm a designer. A designer who is capable of more than just designing logos, but of helping change even a piece of our world through the visual stories we create."

Olivia '20

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"Minneapolis is an epicenter for the arts. There is so much that happens here, and I can access it by walking three minutes away from campus. It's insane."

Gem '24