About the Center for World Arts

About the UF Center for World Arts

The Center for World Arts (CWA) at the University of Florida promotes artistic diversity linking local and global communities through the arts. Through an innovative infrastructure featuring performance, curriculum, media, research, and outreach, the Center advances interdisciplinary perspectives in the arts. In addition, the CWA provides intercultural academic arts programs open to all UF students, including significant arts practice and performance opportunities for students pursuing degrees in the School of Music and the School of Theatre and Dance.

Recognizing the diverse and interconnected nature of the contemporary world, the Center tests new paradigms of curriculum, scholarship, and cultural programming. The CWA seeks to integrate a socio-artistic aesthetic into practice and study of the arts, and likewise to explore of issues of identity, migration, race, gender, and privilege through the lens of the arts. By valuing both unconventional and mainstream cultural practices, and by valuing artistic processes as critical ways of understanding and interpreting the world, the CWA helps to stimulate new modes of learning in the arts.

Artist Programs and Activities

Since 1995, the Center for World Arts has hosted numerous international performing artists, primarily through our distinctive Artists-in-Residence programs: African Artists-in-Residence; Latin American Artists-in-Residence; Diversity Artists; and the Brazilian Music Institute. Unique in the United States, CWA programs give students and community members the opportunity to work directly with guest artists who are masters of dance and music, and who, with every technique they teach, transmit cultural lessons that deepen the world views of all involved. Central to the campuses of the University of Florida and New World School of the Arts, with outreach to area schools, CWA residencies last from one to fifteen weeks and often culminate in premiere performances of newly commissioned works.

In addition to the Artists Residency programs, the CWA also hosts various Conferences and Colloquia during the school year. Forums for world-class scholars and artists, collaborative conferences and colloquia, sponsored in part by the CWA, provide a unique learning experience for UF students and demonstrate the leadership role that the College of Fine Arts plays in introducing global creators to UF.

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