Mission Statement

The University of South Carolina has established an Arts Institute to encourage collaboration among the arts disciplines and to make the university's cultural arts more visible to students and the community. The Arts Institute encourages and oversees interdepartmental projects in the arts, creates programs to make arts a more vital part of student life, and maintains a website that pulls together all arts-related activities, events and outreach for easy access by the community.

As the state's flagship university, the University of South Carolina has played a vital role in the development of the arts in South Carolina through its numerous and varied programs, which enrich, inspire and entertain, and through its graduates who enhance the cultural arts in communities statewide and beyond.