ULM School of Visual and Performing Arts

ULM School of Visual and Performing Arts VAPA programs are designed to develop your expertise, challenge your creativity & fuel your passion.

Art concentrations are offered in ceramics, drawing, graphic design, painting, and art education. Bachelor of Music studies include performance, theory and composition, musical theater, piano pedagogy, and music education. Bachelor of Arts in Music concentrations include Psychology, Communication, Creative Writing, Journalism, Spanish, Business, and Pre-Medical Studies. Concentrations under develo

pment include Jazz Studies, Church Music, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Pre-Creative Arts Therapy. Theater and dance offer minor areas of study and provide a variety of performance opportunities to enhance studio-based courses.

Join us for the final concerts of our Summer Master's of Music Education program this week! The Summer MME brings active...
06/22/2026

Join us for the final concerts of our Summer Master's of Music Education program this week! The Summer MME brings active music teachers to the ULM campus for an intensive three semester graduate degree program. The Summer Wind Ensemble and Summer Concert Choir are conducted by the MME students under the supervision of ULM's music faculty. The concerts are free and open to the public!

Sing at ULM this summer! Our Summer Choral Camp is extending the registration deadline to Monday, June 22nd at 5:00 pm- ...
06/18/2026

Sing at ULM this summer! Our Summer Choral Camp is extending the registration deadline to Monday, June 22nd at 5:00 pm- it's not to late to join in the fun! Camp is July 8th-11th and is open to rising 9th graders through graduating seniors.

Register at: https://www.ulm.edu/summercamps/music-2026.html

Join us for four days of choral music and fun at our High School Choral Camp from July 8th to July 11th! The camp is ope...
06/11/2026

Join us for four days of choral music and fun at our High School Choral Camp from July 8th to July 11th! The camp is open to rising 9th graders through graduating seniors. We also have residential camper and day camper options. Please reach out to Dr. Carlton Kilpatrick at [email protected] for more information!

Register for the camp today at:
ulm.edu/summercamps/music-2026.html

04/20/2026

A week from today, the ULM P-40’s will present their spring concert, “Shake Your Booty!” Join us on Monday April 20th at 7:30pm in Brown Auditorium on the campus of ULM. The concert will include favorites like “Hit the Road Jack,” Moondance,” “That’s the Way I Like It,” “At Last,” and modern hits like Sabrina Carpenter’s “Please, Please, Please,” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Get Him Back.” Hope to see you there!

ULM Jazz Ensemble Presents "Jazz4Kidz — Music for the Young at Heart" April 22, Noon–1:00 p.m., Brown Auditorium, Univer...
04/20/2026

ULM Jazz Ensemble Presents "Jazz4Kidz — Music for the Young at Heart" April 22, Noon–1:00 p.m., Brown Auditorium, University of Louisiana Monroe

MONROE, La. — The ULM Jazz Ensemble invites families to its first-ever Jazz for Kids concert, "Jazz4Kidz — Music for the Young at Heart," on April 22 from noon to 1:00 p.m. in Brown Auditorium on the ULM campus. This 50-minute program is crafted to engage young listeners and introduce them to America’s original art form: jazz.

The repertoire includes big-band arrangements of familiar favorites from Disney films, Broadway, and classic children’s tunes. Selections scheduled to be featured include "The Bare Necessities," "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," "La Cucaracha," "Pure Imagination," "When You Wish Upon a Star," and many more crowd-pleasers adapted to delight young and young-at-heart audiences alike.

"Jazz4Kidz" is the inaugural concert in ULM’s new KinderJazz series presented by the Jazz and Commercial Music program. The event is designed to spark curiosity in aspiring young musicians while offering an entertaining, family-friendly afternoon of live music. This event is free and open to the public, so please join us for the lunchtime concert and allow this music to refresh your youthful spirit!

Who: ULM Jazz Ensemble
What: Jazz4Kidz - Music for the Young at Heart
When: April 22nd, 2026 at Noon
Where: Brown Auditorium, ULM
Why: To feel like a kid again and fill young folks with the magic and wonder of this uniquely American artform.

04/20/2026

Here’s a performance you won’t want to miss!

Tomorrow is our ULM Band Extravaganza, featuring our two premier ensembles: the Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble!

Come out and support all the talented musicians in our program!

We are extremely proud of our students who were inducted into the ULM Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society today. Cong...
04/19/2026

We are extremely proud of our students who were inducted into the ULM Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society today.

Congratulations to Elijah Asmussen (BM Piano Performance); Hannah Eason (BFA Art, Ceramics); Shahira Williams (BS Education; Color Guard SOT)!!!

Phi Kappa Phi is an honor society established in 1897 to recognize and encourage superior scholarship without restriction as to the area of study. It was the fourth academic society in the United States to be organized around recognizing academic excellence, and it is the oldest all-discipline honor society.

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