How F&M Does the Arts

Act in a play. Perform your favorite composition. Critique a classic film. Then take it a step further. Studying the arts at F&M means venturing beyond the surface, igniting your imagination, and discovering the profound ways the arts shape both yourself and the broader human experience.

At F&M, studying art and making art go hand-in-hand. You’ll learn technique and composition, theory and practice, and critique and analysis, all while pushing the boundaries of your own creativity and imagination to uncover how artistic expression affects you and our world. You’ll immerse yourself in a campus tailor-made to incubate artists, studying and creating in world-class facilities, including our stunning Winter Visual Arts Center, our collaborative Writers House, the inspiring Phillips Museum of Art, the main-stage Roschel Performing Arts Center, and more. 

Perform, Compose, Direct

You’ll have opportunities to work one-on-one with our renowned arts faculty to make and polish your own creative work — writing novels, composing symphonies, choreographing evening-length dance pieces, and directing plays and films.

The arts at F&M are also about community, and you’ll have the opportunity to curate your own exhibitions and productions, edit and publish your own magazines, contribute to F&M’s annual Emerging Writers Festival, and even attend professional performances in nearby cities like Philadelphia and New York.

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Careers in the Arts

After graduating from F&M, many of our students pursue graduate studies in the arts at leading programs around the world. Some publish acclaimed novels, some write and direct on Broadway or in Hollywood, some choreograph the innovative dance of today. Other students leverage the skills they’ve gained from the arts — creativity, communication, collaboration, and innovation, among others — in careers in publishing, film and television, the museum field, education, marketing, business, and more. Our graduates prove that arts-related degrees open doors to countless careers.

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See Arts at F&M in Action

October 3, 2025

Faculty Research Uncovers Vanished Refugee Colony

Conversations with colleagues across campus led an F&M Professor on a research journey to discover the location of a 19th-century refugee settlement on the Isthmus of Corinth in Greece.

September 29, 2025

Students Make Waves as Susquehanna River Watchdogs

Roselyn Ovalles ’26 and Grace Uwezukwe ’26 spent the summer monitoring the Susquehanna River and its many local tributaries as interns with the Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association.

September 17, 2025

‘My Magical Summer in Bath’: Junior Shares U.K. Study Experience

Eleanor Metz '27 did more than study Roman history this summer. She lived it in the 18th-century city of Bath – one of England’s most significant cultural sites – through F&M’s Advanced Studies in England program.