Valley City State University – Center for the Arts

A Home for Arts & Communications

The Center for the Arts at VCSU is the new home for the music and visual arts departments. The building promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and efficient use of space by sharing across departments while anchoring an edge of campus. The light-filled lobby with wood structure creates a warm welcome for students and community alike. The building is designed to mediate the scale of the residential neighborhood with that of the three-story building while complementing the architecture of the adjacent student union.

The new gateway facility includes a 350-seat flexible performance hall, an 80-seat recital hall/choral rehearsal space, band rehearsal space, faculty studios, and classrooms, including piano studio, education classroom, and recording studio. Art studios include ceramics, wood shop/sculpture, flex, painting/drawing, and printmaking.