Creative Arts

Looking to prepare for a career in music? Come explore our courses in vocal and orchestral performance, music history, and music theory. If theatre is your passion, take performance, theatre management, or set design. Or try your hand at documentary filmmaking, broadcast journalism, graphic design, costume and makeup design, or painting. You can even combine courses in different areas to create an intermedia arts experience.

Our Saints love getting out of the classroom and getting in the game. As a creative arts student, you’ll have plenty of hands-on and extracurricular opportunities to perfect the craft just right for you. Experiential opportunities include Siena’s chamber orchestra, chamber singers, college chorus, campus radio station (88.3 FM, WVCR The Saint), and theatre productions. Internships are available with local radio and television stations, recording studios, local theatres, galleries, graphic design studios, museums, and photography studios.

Our Mission:

The mission of the Creative Arts Department is to engage students with works of the creative imagination. The creative arts curriculum empowers students:

To understand the creative process and be able to internalize this process for self-assessment and creative growth.
To understand the fundamental elements of the arts.
To demonstrate technical excellence in the skills, tools, materials, and/or software used in their medium(s) of choice, and to apply those skills in practica, internships, independent studies and/or capstones
To gain knowledge of historical and contemporary art movements, trends, and genres, and to identify artists relevant to their own process of art-making.
To gain the ability to articulate the content of their own work, and to engage in critical dialogue and thoughtful discourse.

Our Home

Foy Hall is home to studio art classrooms, a state-of-the-art digital lab, an acting studio, music practice rooms, and lecture and rehearsal halls. It also houses Siena’s experimental studio lab, Beaudoin Theater, scene and costume shops, lighting and sound booths, and the Carol and Joseph Reilly SCTV station and broadcasting studio.

Angelina Castro '16

"I was always interested in journalism, more specifically television. Through this major, I’ve had the chance to take journalism classes, television production classes, and was able to intern at the on-campus radio station, WVCR 88.3 the Saint for credit."