The College of Visual and Performing Arts at James Madison University believes that equity, access and inclusion are moral imperatives and artistic obligations. Diversity—in the stories we represent, the students we serve, and the audiences we engage—is vital for the health and relevance of contemporary visual arts, performing arts, and design practice. The CVPA, therefore, welcomes diversity of perspective, race, ethnicity, religion, socio-economic status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ability.
CVPA Faculty and the African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Center
The African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Center provides interdisciplinary knowledge, programming and initiatives related to Black peoples, histories, cultures, languages, economics, philosophies, ideas and socio-political structures. The center’s core mission is to cater to student-faculty constituencies with academic interests in the peoples, cultures and institutions of Africa and the African Diaspora.
Faculty drawn from different departments and disciplines across the university constitute the program's primary academic constituency.
Several are drawn from CVPA:
Inclusive Excellence Resources
Resources require a valid JMU eID login.
