The School of the Arts at IU Northwest provides a comprehensive and flexible learning experience in multiple programs across the departments of Communication, Performing Arts, and Fine Arts. Working with internationally recognized scholars, artists, and practitioners, students investigate their disciplines' foundations and engage in the experimental development of personal directions.
Connect With Us
Our proximity—only 35 miles to Downtown Chicago—offers both students and faculty access to world-class academic and professional resources and experiences.
Highlights include two state-of-the-art theatres, light-drenched artist studios, a sculpture garden, a museum-quality campus art collection, two galleries featuring rotating works by local, national, and international artists, technology-rich classrooms and collaborative labs, and broadcasting and production studio facilities.
An Innovative Campus
The School of the Arts facilities catalyzes creative innovation, exploration, and academic research with fully equipped state-of-the-art technology, tools, and resources, including semi-private studios, collaborative workshops and labs, and technology spaces.
Part of the impetus behind the School of the Arts is to create an infrastructure that will unify our university’s strengths across disciplines and enable cross-disciplinary work.
