What is Your Passion?
Find out at the Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University
Oregon Center for the Arts educates artist-practitioners and scholars in a diverse environment that cultivates SOU’s values of creativity, collaboration, communication, and adventure.
OCA is an academic division of Southern Oregon University. We also serve as a community arts presenter, partner, and producer. The structural components are comprised of Academic Programs, the Schneider Museum of Art (SMA), institutional-based Affiliated Arts Programs and Community Arts Partnerships.
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Your Southern Oregon Arts Experience Starts Here
Oregon Center for the Arts at SOU brings creatives together to practice their individual artistic passions while inspiring one another across the disciplines.
Check our page regularly for upcoming Oregon Center for the Arts at SOU events featuring faculty, students, alumni, and visiting artists.
There’s a long history of collaboration between Southern Oregon University and professional arts organizations both locally and throughout the state.
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Art is not a thing, it is a way.
– Elbert Hubbard