Explore your creativity
Our performance program engages many of the world-renowned arts organizations in Midtown
Explore your creativity
The Art Department cultivates a supportive environment for critical thinking, visual literacy, and creative practice
Explore your creativity
Theatre and Dance has live performance ensembles that travel throughout the Detroit community
Explore your creativity CFPCA
Established in 1986, the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts (CFPCA) serves students majoring in 17 undergraduate and 10 graduate programs, and three graduate certifcates through its departments above. CFPCA's location offers students easy access to the very best of the cultural riches of Detroit and the region: museums, galleries and professional performance venues. Equally important, students benefit from numerous internship opportunities in industry, advertising, public relations, newspapers and national broadcast network affiliates. Prospective students, find your CFPCA major today at creative.wayne.edu.
Bob and Maggie Allesee
Arts and Communication Supporters and Philanthropists
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S. Epatha Merkerson
Theatre alumna S. Epatha Merkerson is a Broadway, film and TV actor
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Sarah Ryley
Journalism alumna wins Pulitzer Prize
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Jason Tanksley
2014 alumnus named one of two Rosemary and David Good Fellows
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CFPCA Mission
We create, disseminate and apply new knowledge as well as preserve existing knowledge. Knowledge is broadly constituted; artistic, creative, critical, experiential, and scientific understandings are equally important. Creativity, innovation and discovery are our core competencies.
About Us
100,000 people attend CFPCA exhibits, lectures and performances every year, making this college the cultural gateway of Wayne State University and connecting the university's 28,000 students and 7,000 employees to the community and to its museums, galleries, libraries, theatres and other venues where CFPCA's 2,200 students show their artwork, present their research or perform on stage or in concert.