A music professor conducts an orchestra of trombone players in a church setting.

The Texas A&M College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts will add a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Performance degree starting in the fall semester. The major was recently approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

A person stands in front of a screen on a virtual production stage. The screen is displaying a winter mountain scene. Above the screen are two logos: Texas A&M College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts and Synapse Virtual Production.

The College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts at Texas A&M University will partner with Synapse Virtual Production to build four virtual production stages as part of its emerging Virtual Production Institute.

High school dance students practice their movements as they stand by the barre in a dance studio.

High school students across the state and beyond came to the Texas A&M campus for the Dance Science program’s 16th annual Collegiate Summer Dance Intensive.

Two Olympic archers hold their bronze medals and smile at the Olympic Games in Paris.

Congratulations to Visualization student Casey Kaufhold, who won a bronze medal Friday with Brady Ellison in the archery mixed-team competition in the Olympic Games in Paris.

Outlaw Ruby Ravenwood - a black woman wearing a cowboy hat painting by Felice House

Felice House, associate Visualization professor, and her husband, Dana Younger, are set to debut their exhibition “The West That Never Was” on Aug. 3 at the Davis Gallery in Austin.

An artist and professor stands beside her artistic video project which is on display on a screen. Beneath the screen are audio headsets.

Krista Leigh Steinke, assistant professor in Visualization, recently received the 2024 Jones Artist Award for her video “Sun Notations,” an experimental project about the sun. 

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Tim McLaughlin has been named the dean of the Texas A&M College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts, and the inaugural recipient of the Ray Rothrock ’77 Endowed Dean’s Chair. McLaughlin has served as interim dean since the school was established in September 2022.

Student performers stand in a circle on a stage with their arms extended to the middle.
A college student wearing a black suit outfitted with sensors works with a professor at a motion capture facility.
A professor dressed as a maritime surveyor wears a hard hat and augmented reality headset device as he steps through a simulated environment.