LMU Music Realizes New Growth and Opportunities

With brand new spaces, added concentrations, creative partnerships, and growing faculty and enrollment numbers, the Music Department is leaning in to a new trajectory. Historically an intimate department, Music has seen an uptick in interest, this fall welcoming its largest freshman class in decades, and seeing a record number of early action auditions for the … Read more

Theatre Arts Students Explore Popular Storytelling Medium in Podcasting Course

As podcasting’s popularity soars, a new elective course in the LMU College of Communication and Fine Arts’ Theatre Arts Department has provided a venue for exploring the flourishing medium. In the fall 2021 semester, 10 students learned about podcasts’ varying structures and genres and how to produce them, then developed and recorded a podcast episode … Read more

Through Art Therapy, Cancer Patients and Survivors Reckon With Their Experience and Feel Less Alone

At the weekly art therapy groups for cancer patients and survivors run by the LMU’s Marital & Family (Art) Therapy Department, some of the participants have considerable artistic abilities, while others haven’t drawn since kindergarten. And it doesn’t matter one bit. “It’s not about the quality, or even the content of the art,” says Jillian … Read more

Dance Department Study Guide Will Help K-12 Students Explore Their Identity Through Bill T. Jones Masterwork

At four under-resourced public middle schools in Los Angeles this spring, students will experience a lesson like no other — exploring their identities and place in society through a masterwork of dance created by one of the most luminous choreographers of the modern era. In addition to their own teachers, instructors will include Loyola Marymount … Read more

Faculty Work With Digital Platform to Reframe Art History Education

Through their work with the world’s most-visited art history resource — the free, collaborative digital platform known as Smarthistory — two members of the LMU College of Communication and Fine Arts faculty are helping to dramatically expand the audience for their discipline while contributing to changes in the way it’s taught. Accessibility is Key Smarthistory … Read more