Fine and Performing Arts Department
Supporting a rich cultural experience at Regis University is a key initiative of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts and a wide variety of concerts, exhibits, lectures and performances are made available for the entire community to enjoy. The department is divided into two units: the Art Program and the Music Program.
Art Program
The Art Program offers dynamic courses in Art History and the Visual Arts, including concentrations in Digital Art, Drawing, Graphic Design, Painting, Photography, Printmaking and Sculpture.
Music Program
The Music Program is intended for students at all levels of experience, offering beginning to advanced music lessons and classes, performing ensembles, and courses in music history, music theory and composition.
O'Sullivan Art Gallery
The O'Sullivan Art Gallery is located on the Northwest Denver Campus and typically hosts six exhibitions annually from acclaimed local and national artists. All exhibitions and events in the O'Sullivan Art Gallery are free and open to the public.
The Recorder Music Center
The Recorder Music Center (RMC), housed in and jointly maintained with Dayton Memorial Library, provides an international repository of recorder music and a friendly, full-service research center for recorder music.
Inspired Thinker Series
The Inspired Thinker Series is a biannual endowed event hosted by the Department of Fine and Preforming Arts at Regis University.
This event highlights distinguished artists, musicians and creative scholars who have demonstrated adventurous thinking and groundbreaking contributions to their fields. Speakers are invited from across the nation to give a public lecture on campus, and provide workshops, demonstrations and hands-on learning activities with students across disciplines. The lecture series brings valuable new ideas and perspectives to our student body, faculty and broader campus community. Each speaker demonstrates how the power of art can change our world.
The Inspired Thinker Series centers Regis as a hub to celebrate and promote the arts in the Denver metropolitan area.
Inspired Thinker Series Guest Artists
M. Roger Holland II
Teaching Associate Professor of Music and Religion at University of Denver
Director of The Spirituals Project
Reflection, Rejuvenation, Resistance and Rejoicing: Music of the Spirituals
2026
Enrique Martínez Celeya
Multidisciplinary Artist and Author
Work and Documents
2023
Lecolian Washington
Bassoonist
Associate Professor of Bassoon, University of Memphis
Looking Toward the Future and How Authentic Inclusion Will Guide the Way
2021
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Visual Artist
Wahkootowin
2019
Guerilla Girls
Artist Activists
The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist
2017
Daniel Valdez
Writer, Director and Composer
Origins…Discovering Self-Identity
2015
Vijay Gupta
Violinist and Social Activist
Music is Medicine
2013
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