 My name is Megan. I'm a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences studying chemistry with a minor in history and another minor in media studies and so I've really throughout my time at UVM been combining the arts and sciences which has been so fun. Outside of the classroom I'm involved as a tour guide here on campus. I'm the academic affairs chair for our student government association. I'm on the mock trial team and I started a Glee Club for watching Glee the show not singing and so I like have a lot of goofy roles but I also have a lot of fun and take a lot of work seriously here. Alright so the Fleming Museum is the largest fine arts museum in Vermont and it has a collection 40,000 items strong it's so beautiful in here and it's also free for all students you can come in just to study if you're not taking class in here and it's just like this really cool space that's super enriching for all students that you can just get into. This is my exhibit that I curated with a group of students in an art history class called Art History 282 which was about museum studies and this exhibit is called Resist Insist Persist and it's something that throughout the semester we were working on and over time like developed what it was going to be about. We look at art and protest through four different lenses gender the state race as well as socio-economic class and throughout that whole semester we were Skyping in with different alumni who work in museums talking about the relationship that people have as museum goers with the art and who's welcome in different spaces here at UBM so this exhibit really examines that and also brings in art by artists who aren't typically shown in museums and that's what's really cool about it. This piece right here is actually done by a UBM professor who works in studio art department Mildred Beltran created this and it talks about the relationship between race and art and it's really cool that we have a local artist who was able to loan this out. So this is like the Egyptian exhibit that talks about like Egyptian art but this was something that was super useful for me when I took a class on Egyptian history we would talk about knock it up pottery and things like that which is in this case right here and while I was writing an essay for that exam I was actually able to like just talk about what I saw right here and that was just like super enriching being able to see what we were actually talking about and it's just right here on campus but the other thing with that is talking about how a lot of these different things the provenance of those pieces of work is really really shady so how we came to get these pieces of art and how they wound up in our collection is another really interesting thing to look at. We major here at UBM and so as I've been taking courses in the humanities and the arts over time I've skipped out on a lot of like intro classes so to have things like the Fleming Museum and other different art pieces here on campus has given me greater context to what it is that I've been studying and it like is this great little supplemental resource for me. I'm at Royal Tyler Theater. This is the main theater here on campus. Any student no matter what your major is can participate in the shows that run year-round so you don't have to be a theater major or minor to actually be in a production it's open call audition so any age can also get involved. There are three main stage productions throughout the year within Royal Tyler Theater. There's a one-act festival for senior students as well as like a winter time show. Last year it was a talent show. You're able to do all sorts of different things it doesn't have to just be performing though there are students group student groups that do things like that there's the university players as well as name pending and improv group here but there's also opportunities to get involved in tech here. There's also opportunities to get involved in lighting design stage design all sorts of different things you can be any major to get involved in those things as well. There's also a pit orchestra and a pit band ways to get involved musically so if you're a music education major for example you're able to get involved in blocking shows and creating sound design for shows and it's just a really cool opportunity no matter what background you're coming from. All right right now we're in Cohen Hall which is a new building to our campus it was made possible by a seven million dollar donation from the Cohen family directly to the arts so this opened up a whole bunch of new classrooms drawing studios a room where you could go and rent out high resolution cameras if you're interested in creating digital art or in a film studies class it's just provided all sorts of really cool new equipment for students to be able to utilize. Williams Hall is home to the city art department the art history department as well as the anthropology department it's a huge cornerstone for the College of Arts and Sciences. The thing that is really important to me as a chemistry major who cares about the arts is adding context to my degree when I first came in to UVM I didn't really understand what my degree meant and over time I've gotten that context I can apply chemistry to all sorts of different things all sorts of different applications be that food science or doing conservation in a museum or something like that it's really added value to what it is that I'm studying I'm better able to communicate with people because of it I'm better able to understand what's being conveyed in scientific papers because I understand how language works and so this has been something that has really enriched my own education and it's made me a better chemist but also a better person. Hi everyone my name is Sadie I'm a current junior here at the University of Vermont studying music education in the College of Education and Social Services when I'm not in class here at Southwick I'm involved with the Skeen Snowboard Club the National Association for Music Educators we have a chapter back here at the University of Vermont and I'm the co-music director of UVM's all-female identifying and non-binary acapella group, the Cat's Beyond I'm also involved within the music department with our concert choir and I have been previously involved with Catamount Seniors and the UVM band so there are countless organizations and groups and ensembles that are available for our students so not all of them are affiliated with the music department but we do have a lot of those so we have orchestra band choir chamber choir there's a jazz vocal ensemble there are so many jazz instrumental ensembles so there are countless ways that you can get involved with something that is affiliated with the music department and all of those opportunities are available in the music office. Music building is a great place to meet other people who are interested in starting your own band also. Countless people who are involved in the music department have made their own bands. I'd like to showcase some of my friends actually started their own band and then won the UVM battle of bands and were able to perform at Springfest. They opened for the artists that came for our Springfest which was so cool to get to see people that I have class with up their performing music in front of the entire school. It's really awesome so if you want to be involved with music all you have to do is look for it listen for it it's everywhere on campus. So we are coming into our hall that has all of our classrooms and these rooms are open to any student so you don't have to be majoring in which is really awesome and we do end up getting a lot of students who just want to come and be able to play music. Sometimes they get pretty full so it's hard to lock one down so when I need to go practice for one of my lessons sometimes the other way but we have some upstairs and downstairs as well so there's plenty of space and it's always really fun to walk down the hall and hear what people are playing sometimes people are playing classical music sometimes jazz also sometimes just pop and something that they you know are really interested in so it's cool to see everyone's different perspectives and what everyone's into it's really really awesome so here we have a bulletin board which has sign-up sheets for anything you could want we have band orchestra, wind ensemble, chamber ensemble also for seeing opportunities and voice lessons if you're interested in anything this is the place to come find it and if there isn't any information about that there you can come to the office which is just down the hallway they have the information for anything you can possibly need thank you we also have an archive library of tons and tons of music here so if you're curious you want to go cruising through the stacks this is a good place to do it this is my favorite place to sing in between classes because the acoustics are great so the stairwell you'll always find me singing this is where a lot of our music students like to hang out a lot of my friends who are music education majors like to hang out here between all of our classes since most of our classes are housed in Southwick so we can give a quick wave to all of the music and we'll head this way really great space to come take a nap on the couches between classes get your theory homework done do whatever it is you need to do so we'll head over to the recital lounge if you want to take a little peek in through this window this is where all of our saddles happen we've a ton of concerts so many genres the Lee series has concerts here we just have a workshop for any student with a jazz so we got to come and listen to that perform and then we actually got to perform for them and do a workshop which was really great because those are professionals who work out in the field and have been in our shoes and are now performing in the real world so I've had some practice in my student performance recitals and next fall I get to share with my friends and family all that I've been working on this past four years so through my music lessons that I have with David and I we I get to prepare whatever music that I want and perform that and show everyone what I've been working on and I'm really excited for that and proud of all the accomplishments that I've made and excited to share that with everyone