As presented at the September 17, 2015 Board of Regents meeting at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.

1. Proposed
Performing &
Visual Arts
Building
Board of Regents
September 17, 2015
1:00-2:30 pm

2. Award Winning Programs
 Kennedy National Award Winner –
Most number of awards of any
university three years running
 British Ballroom Formation Dancing
Champions
 Sundance Outdoor Theatre –
Public/Private Partnership
productions: Wizard of Oz, Seven
Brides for Seven Brothers, Fiddler on
the Roof, Sound of Music
 All Steinway Campus
 Music ensembles are regularly
invited to National conferences –
Reed Criddle

3.  Performing & Visual Arts has quadrupled in
enrollment as the institution has matured in
its role as a University.
 2013-14 UVU awarded the third largest
number of Bachelor Degrees within USHE in
Visual & Performing Arts.
• UofU: 346 (45.8%)
• USU: 142 (18.8%)
• UVU: 130 (17.2%)

4.  2000 performing arts majors
 Number of students in arts
courses in academic year
• 5000 Music
• 2400 Theater
• 2500 Dance
• 660 Visual & Digital Arts
• 16,500 total – approximately
26% of student body

5. UVU and the State
Becoming Utah’s Largest University
15000
22000
29000
36000
43000
50000
2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024
33,150
40,899
48,495
26,696
Snow — 4,779
21,799 new projected students 2008 to 2025
Dixie State — 8,570
Southern Utah— 7,656

6. Square feet per student by institution

7. Building Facts
 $50.4 million building
 120,000–140,00 square feet
• 700 seat concert hall
• 450 seat Proscenium theater
• 150 seat music recital/lecture hall
• 150 seat dance recital hall
• 1 exhibition space
• 40 offices
• 5 labs
• 17 practice rooms

8. $20.4 million donations
 $16.4 million – donated funds
 $4 million – additional funds to raise
 $30 million - state appropriation
 $50.4 million total project cost

9. Current Space Utilization
 97,000 square feet for the arts
 Technology and Computing will receive
20,000 square feet when the arts building is
completed
 30,000 square feet of space remodeled for
the Dance Department in the physical
education building
 12,000 square feet in the Clyde Institute
returned to construction management
department

10. Campus Master Plan

11. Utah Valley University
 Utah Valley University is the only USHE
institution that does not have a
Performing & Visual Arts facility
 This is the missing piece on the central
campus to creating a comprehensive
university
 Utah Valley University & School of the
Arts was granted conditional
accreditation on the premise the
institution was building new facilities
 Strong community engaged support
 Regional home for the Arts