General Information

The Meadows School of the Arts educates visionary artists, scholars, and arts and communication professionals so that they may have a sustainable, transformative impact on both local and global society.

Founded through the generosity of Algur H. Meadows, his family and the Meadows Foundation, the Meadows School is recognized as one of the nation’s premier arts schools. It offers intense, specialized education in the communication, performing and visual arts, and provides a rich variety of coursework for students from other disciplines exploring the arts as part of their liberal arts education.

In addition to working closely with a nationally renowned faculty, Meadows students have access to many eminent visiting professors, artists and scholars. The Meadows School also offers one of the nation’s finest university complexes for instruction, performance and exhibition in advertising, art, art history, arts management and arts entrepreneurship, corporate communication and public affairs, creative computation, dance, film and media arts, journalism, music, and theatre.

Meadows Academic Units

The Meadows School consists of 10 undergraduate and graduate academic units:

Temerlin Advertising Institute for Education and Research	Dance
Art	Film and Media Arts
Art History	Journalism
Corporate Communication and Public Affairs	Music
Creative Computing	Theatre

Administration and Faculty

Faculty Directory

Office of the Academic Dean

Samuel S. Holland, Algur H. Meadows Dean
Barbara Hill Moore, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty
Derek Kompare, Associate Dean for Faculty
Gretchen Elizabeth Smith, Associate Dean for Students
Joe Phua, Senior Associate Dean for Students
Karen Thomas, Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Cultural Intelligence
Karen Drennan, Associate Dean for Communications and Strategy, Chief of Staff
Timmie Hathorn, Assistant Dean for Alumni Affairs

Administration

Jen Benoit-Bryan, Director, SMU DataArts
Pam Henderson, Director of Scholarships and Financial Aid
Jay Hengst, Executive Director of Operations and Events
Jennifer Shoemaker, Executive Assistant to the Dean
Janet Stephens, Director of Academic Services
Cynthia Watson, Financial Business Manager
Nick Weege, Director of Development

Exterior of the Meadows School of the Arts