College of Visual and Performing Arts
Mission Statement

As the only comprehensive collegiate arts program nationally accredited in all the arts in the State of South Carolina, public or private, the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Winthrop University offers majors in art, design, music, theatre, and dance.

The College also offers teacher licensure curricula in art, music, dance, and theatre and is the only school in the State to do so. With a full-time faculty of over fifty artist/teachers and a student body of over eight-hundred enrolled in a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate professional degree and liberal arts programs, the College of Visual and Performing Arts provides high quality arts instruction in a comprehensive teaching university setting. The College also provides the broader Winthrop community with a vast array of outstanding performances and art exhibitions annually.