Fine Arts
Alumna Norah Jones is an eight-time Grammy Award-winning performer.
UNT offers a stunning range of cultural activities that are open to the entire community.
The College of Visual Arts and Design, among the country's largest and most comprehensive public arts schools, offers lectures and artists' talks as well as rotating art exhibitions in four primary galleries, including new galleries in the Fort Worth Cultural District at the UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth and the Universities Center at Dallas.
Art alumni include sculptor Jesús Moroles, fashion designer Michael Faircloth, video game designer Eben Cook, and comic strip and movie illustrator T Lewis.
The Murchison Performing Arts Center features two venues — Winspear Hall and the Lyric Theater — that showcase student talent. Located near Interstate 35, the building hosts student performances from the College of Music. The outstanding acoustics in Winspear Hall are on par with the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas and the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth as premier music halls in North Texas.
The university's nationally recognized College of Music offers more than 1,000 concerts per year, most of them free. Concerts range from intimate solo and chamber music concerts to large scale choral, orchestral, jazz and operatic productions.
Music alumni include jazz artists Billy Harper, Norah Jones and Lyle Mays, and opera stars Patricia Racette and Emily Pulley.
The Department of Dance and Theatre provides an eclectic mix of drama, comedy and dance concerts each year.
Drama alumni include Emmy Award Winner Thomas Haden Church, who was also an Academy Award nominee for Sideways, and Robocop star Peter Weller.
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