Loyola University Chicago
Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the Department of Fine & Performing Arts is working remotely. During this time, our preferred method of contact is email. Please visit the DFPA Faculty and Staff Directory for detailed contact information. For general questions, please email us at dfpa@luc.edu
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Online Tours Available
In keeping with social distancing guidelines, the Department of Fine and Performing Arts is now offering prospective students and families online tours in all areas - Dance, Fine Arts, Music, and Theatre. These individualized online meetings are available M-F during regular business hours and are guided by our friendly and knowledgeable guides.
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Students Create Voting Stations
As the 2020-2021 DFPA Artist-in-Residence at Loyola University Chicago, Aram Han Sifuentes is teaching a course, FNAR 393 Official Unofficial Voting Station. Students in this course created their own voting station activations and resources to speak to voting, voter suppression, and disenfranchisement. Click to view their projects!VIEW -
Prospective Students
Dance Major Auditions (2021-2022)
Dance major auditions for academic year 2021-2022 will be online.
Loyola University Chicago's Bachelor of Arts in Dance requires a two part application process: an application for admission to the University and an application to audition for the major.
Dancers must submit two videos, an essay, and attend an interview session on Zoom on Saturday, February 6, 2021. Click for details!DETAILS
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Prospective Students
Music Major Auditions (2021-2022)
Music at Loyola encourages self-expression through music, engaging students with coursework and performance opportunities that encourage success in performance and composition in a variety of settings.
The Music Major Auditions for academic year 2021-2022 will be conducted through video submission. Please complete the audition application and submit your video following the application guidelines.
Acceptance to the Music program is contingent upon acceptance to Loyola University Chicago. Click for details and application.
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Incoming Students
2021 Theatre Scholarship Auditions
The Theatre Scholarship Audition application for academic year 2021-2022 is now available.
To be considered for the theatre scholarship at Loyola University Chicago, students must attend an online audition/interview Zoom event on Saturday, February 6, 2021.
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Artist-in-Residence Event
Aram Han Sifuentes Keynote: Creating A Seed for Action
THU OCT 22nd @ 4:30PM CST on Zoom
2020-2021 DFPA Artist-in-Residence Aram Han Sifuentes uses art to disrupt, unsettle, and rupture dominant narrative to assert, demand and claim spaces for those who are commonly othered, particularly for immigrants of color. She will talk about her projects U.S. Citizenship Test Sampler, Protest Banner Lending Library, and Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t and how she uses art to confront social and racial injustices against the disenfranchised and riff off of official institutions and bureaucratic processes to reimagine new, inclusive, and humanized systems of civic engagement and belonging.
This event is free and open to the public. Click to register!
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Artist-in-Residence
Aram Han Sifuentes featured in Art Journal Open
2020-2021 DFPA Artist-in-Residence Aram Han Sifuentes discusses her Official Unofficial Voting Station project in Art Journal Open. "The Official Unofficial Voting Station creates symbolic voting events, performances, and art installations for those whose votes are suppressed—including youth under eighteen years old, noncitizens, the presently and formerly incarcerated (depending on state laws), residents of US territories, and those without government-issued identification (depending on state laws)." Click to read the full text.READ MORE -
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Aram Han Sifuentes Appointed 2020-2021 Artist-In-Residence in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, 3Arts Awardee, and Sustainable Arts Foundation Awardee, Aram Han Sifuentes will be teaching socially engaged art and present Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t in the Ralph Arnold Gallery during her residence at Loyola University Chicago's Department of Fine and Performing Arts.
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STUDENT
Dance Major's Passion for Flamenco
Rising junior Mia Potter was recently featured in the Loyola Phoenix on her love of flamenco and her plans to study the dance and it's historical and cultural context abroad. In Spain, Mia plans on following in the footsteps of her inspirations, such as Carmen Amaya, a trailblazer flamenco dancer who was the first female to master footwork commonly used for men, and Rocio Molina, a choreographer known for her reinventions of traditional flamenco, and immerse herself in the culture. Read the full feature and view the accompanying video!READ MORE -
Alumni
Drawing, Painting & Printmaking Alumna Creates a Series of "Stay-In" Posters
Sylvia Bueltel (BA, '18) draws inspiration in World War II propaganda posters for her her series of posters responding to the COVID pandemic. Since beginning the project in late March, Bueltel has completed five posters in the series, each saturated with patriotic colors and evincing themes of sacrifice and duty -- with the "We Can Do It" ethos of "Rosie the Riveter" and "Uncle Sam." Sylvia's urgent and timely work is featured on ABC News. Click to read the full article.READ MORE -
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Student featured in National Association of Pastoral Musicians Lunchtime Virtual Concert Series
Rising senior majoring in Music and Psychology, Laura Bottei recently performed an organ concert titled "Play Like A Girl" as part of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians Lunchtime Virtual Concert Series. A native of Green Bay, Wisconsin, Laura began studying piano at the age of 5. At Loyola, she studies organ with Steven Betancourt, voice with Sarah Ponder, and previously studied piano with Anthony Molinaro. During the 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic years, she is serving as the organ scholar at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago. Following graduation, Laura plans to pursue an MM in organ performance. Program: Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 531- J.S. Bach (1685-1750); Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter, BWV 650- J.S. Bach; Sonata No. 4 in B flat Major- Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): I. Allegro con brio, II. Andante religioso, III. Allegretto, IV. Allegro maestoso e vivace,; Carillon, from 24 Pieces in free style- Louis Vierne (1870-1937) WATCH VIDEO -
Artist-in-Residence
The Boys and the Nuns
2019-2020 DFPA Artist-in-Residence Sandra Delgado shares an online work-in-progress presentation and talk-back of The Boys and the Nuns, the play with music she's been developing at Loyola. Throughout her residency, Delgado has collaborated with Theatre students, faculty and staff to develop this play about social change and intersectionality in Chicago during the 1980s. The presentation has been viewed over 2,000 times since it was performed live on Zoom and streamed on Facebook on Saturday, April 25, 2020. The Department of Fine and Performing Arts is proud to share Delgado's play as an example of how artists are called to creatively adapt their practices in the face of unprecedented changes and challenges. The Boys and the Nuns will be fully produced at Loyola in 2020-2021. *Please note that this presentation contains mild adult language and themesWATCH VIDEO -
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Music Students and Faculty Collaborate Remotely to Create Online Soundscapes
Celebrate Earth 1 is the first part in an ongoing YouTube virtual project designed by students and faculty from the DFPA. This online soundscape is based on variations of the medieval chant, "Adoro te devote," culminating in the hymn "For the Beauty of the Earth." The singers and instrumentalists recorded their parts individually, then were compiled into a cohesive work. This first installment features over one hundred choristers from the LUC Women's Chorus (conducted by Jennifer Budziak), University Chorale, and Chamber Choir (conducted by Kirsten Hedegaard), as well as guest musicians: Rich Leasure, organ, Jim Gailloreto, soprano saxophone, and Jill Kaeding, cello. Sound production was done by Sam Mason, and video production was completed by Alec Loftus, both students in the music program. Part 2 will feature music from Paul Winter's Missa Gaia, which was set to be performed by the choirs and dance division in late March. Future installments will be completed over the summer.WATCH VIDEO -
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Faculty
Through the Photographer's Lens
Photography Professor Nori Minami reflects on his most recent project "California City (Real Estate)" and the challenge of embracing technology in and out of the classroom.READ -
Alumni
Art with Impact: Empathy on Stage
"The point of learning how to make theatre is to do it, and to do it in community, and to do it in service to the world"READ -
Faculty
Art with Impact: Activism Through Dance
Sandra Kaufmann, Director of Dance, speaks about using dance as an aesthetic instrument of change at Loyola.READ
