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                                                Start A Movement
                                                
We educate visionary artists, scholars and communications professionals ready to make an impact on the world around them.

Our mission

Challenge yourself to find your voice, hone your craft and make the world better.

At Meadows, you'll start creating on day one. You’ll do more than prepare for the future at Meadows—you’ll shape it in your first year. We challenge each student to develop his or her gifts to the highest level. We challenge students to find their unique voices and to develop the highest level of craftsmanship. While message and craft are the foundations of art, at Meadows we also practice entrepreneurship, outreach and engagement because they make an artist employable and relevant.

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Areas of Study

Where Are They Now?

A Meadows alum helps mentor a current student.

Meadows Mentor Program Provides Students with Professional Advice and Guidance

The new mentorship program created by the Office of Alumni and Career Success pairs current students with alumni and other volunteers share career advice.

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Tour SMU Meadows!

Join us as our student ambassador shows the state-of-the-art performance spaces, classrooms, study areas and facilities. See where SMU students practice everything from visual and performing arts to communications!

Life at Meadows

                                
                                Explore what activities and opportunities await students attending SMU Meadows. Between concerts, performances, screenings, student organizations, and professional development, students can expect a vibrant, active community that will enrich their education and help prepare them for life after the Hilltop.
                            

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Event Spotlight

Meadows Wind Ensemble
"Fast Track"

Wednesday, October 15 | 7:30 p.m.

The program will open with the World Premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Joseph Schwantner’s FAST TRACK: Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble, written on commission for the MWE and a consortium of top-tier college and conservatory ensembles, with Meadows Artist-Faculty and Dallas Symphony Orchestra Principal Percussionist George Nickson as soloist.

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Ongoing Exhibitions

Roaming Mexico: Laura Wilson

This exhibition will introduce viewers to a more comprehensive if deeply personal vision of our southern neighbor. It brings together over thirty years’ worth of images documenting Wilson’s sojourns across Mexico and areas just beyond its northern border.

September 14 – January 11, 2026

Laura Wilson, “Parade of Oxen, Grandmother with Granddaughter, La Feria de las Velas, Juchitán, Oaxaca,” 2011. Archival pigment print. © Laura Wilson.

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Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Visions of Mexico

Álvarez Bravo’s photography reflects the complexities of Mexican identity, often juxtaposing the everyday with the enigmatic. The exhibition will feature more than 30 silver gelatin prints spanning from the 1920s to the 1980s.

September 14 – January 11, 2026

Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Mexican, 1902–2002), “A Fish Called Saw (Un pez que llaman Sierra),” 1944, printed in 1977. Gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm). Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas. Gift of W. Barton Munro, MM.88.05.11. © Archivo Manuel Álvarez Bravo, S.C.

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Hiroyuki Hamada

The Pollock Gallery’s newest exhibition features many of Hiroyuki Hamada’s sculptural works executed over the last five years. His work often presents itself to the viewer in seemingly opposing dualities: archaic and futuristic, natural and industrial, austere and inviting. The sculptures are as evocative as they are otherworldly, and yet, it is this seemingly polemic relationship that drives the artist’s practice.

OCTOBER 22 – DECEMBER 5, 2025

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The Hawn Gallery in Hamon Arts Library presents recent works by sculptor, Tulane Assistant Professor of Studio Art, and Meadows alum, Jer'Lisa Devezin (M.F.A. ’19). Jer’Lisa’s work engages research through the lens of her personal experience centering identity, place, Southern culture, nostalgia and socioeconomics.

AUGUST 18 – NOVEMBER 26, 2025

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Pleased to meet you / Hope you guess my name

The Pollock Gallery’s newest exhibition Pleased to meet you / Hope you guess my name introduces new and visiting faculty from the Division of Art at the SMU Meadows School of the Arts to our students and community, and presents examples of their creative research.

SEPTEMBER 5 – OCTOBER 10, 2025

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