About Arts NC State
At NC State, the arts are for everyone.
The arts are a vital part of education, and NC State University recognizes the importance of fostering arts programs—both for our students and for the larger community. Arts NC State invites all students (regardless of their major) and the community to participate in arts programs and productions.
Impacting Hearts
Impacting Minds
Impacting Research
Our Vision
Arts NC State is a collective for high-impact, co-created, collaborative, community-engaged arts experiences, practices, and research.
Our Mission: Four Pillars
Arts NC State engages our campus, local, and regional communities by offering a “third place” of transformational arts programming for all.
Arts NC State partners with non-profit, social service, and industry organizations to extend the benefits of arts engagement and arts-integrated research in our communities for the public good.
Arts NC State provides students with transferable and life skills that are valued in any career path, and acquired through high-impact experiential learning in the arts and a creative community of belonging.
Arts NC State co-creates transformative interdisciplinary arts-integrated research in partnership with staff, faculty, and students across campus through leading edge research collectives.