About Our Community
The Arts Living-Learning Community is located in Snyder-Phillips Hall. This location facilitates creative collaborations centered on socially engaged art among undergraduate students in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) and the College of Arts & Letters (CAL). Students have the opportunity to connect to all degree programs across the University and facilitate extensive community engagement throughout their Spartan journey. Students promote creativity and wellness through intentional community-building facilitated by a graduate assistants, MSU faculty and staff, and artists-in-residence.
Students who participate in the Arts Living-Learning Community will gain exposure to and practice in shared learning outcomes. By focusing on socially engaged art, students learn the the link that exists between students’ co-curricular arts opportunities, belonging, community engagement, and a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion. At the center of the student experience, the arts entail learning, inquiry, and creativity. Students will experience cross-college and departmental engagement with various communities. These connections allow them to embrace the hopes of a shared future and benefit from intentional opportunities to authentically connect to confront the grand challenges that abide from our past into the present.
All Arts Living-Learning Community students will have access to existing MSU faculty and staff through the Language and Media Center, Art Studio, various theatre spaces, exhibitions spaces, galleries, film and media labs, fine art facilities and more. In addition, there is curricular programming that has been developed specifically for students through the Residential College in the Arts & Humanities and the College of Arts & Letters through the Department of Art, Art History, and Design. the Department of African American and African Studies, Department Theatre, the Creative Writing program in the Department of English, and the Film Studies program.
