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Arts Collective

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Connect. Collaborate. Create.

Step into a community where art becomes a way of seeing, shaping, and serving the world.

The Arts Collective is a cohort for you to explore your creative calling—whether through visual art, music, writing, theater, or other forms of expression. You don’t need to major in the arts to join. You just need a desire to listen, create, and problem solve within ÃÛÌÒapp's arts-invested community. You’ll take courses together, travel to places rich in the arts, and participate in events that stretch your imagination and deepen your understanding of the arts as a force for renewal.

Who Can Apply?

  • Those entering ÃÛÌÒapp as a first-year student in Fall 2026
  • Students from any major who are eager to engage who want to engage in arts-based learning and community
  • Creatives who are curious, collaborative, and eager to grow

If you are starting ÃÛÌÒapp after 2026, please send us your information (see form below) and we'll invite you to apply when the application is open to you. Email cohorts@calvin.edu with questions.

Important Dates

Application opens on August 1. The deadline to apply is January 15. Find all dates and deadlines below!

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Why Join the Arts Collective?

Collaborate with diverse perspectives

You'll join peers from many majors and backgrounds to create, perform, and exhibit work that reflects upon your curiosities, questions, and current issues.

Travel and learn

Take a place-based approach to the arts through off-campus travel with the cohort.

Explore creativity and calling

Engage topics like arts and vocation, creative restoration, visual culture, and leadership in the arts.

Immerse in the arts

Experience the vibrant arts scene at ÃÛÌÒapp and in Grand Rapids. You'll attend exhibitions, performances, films, and studio nights.
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Are you planning a visit to ÃÛÌÒapp? Ask your admissions counselor to schedule a meeting with an Honors Scholars representative during your visit. We'd love to meet you and answer your questions!

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Cohort Application Deadlines and Interviews

Application

August 1: Applications Open

Apply to ÃÛÌÒapp and to Cohorts. You can apply to more than one cohort, but you can only participate in one.

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January 15: Cohort Application Deadline

Application deadline for Cohorts and Honors Scholars.

Interview invites sent late January.

Interviews

February: Interviews

Cohort interviews:

  • February 20–25, virtual
  • February 27, in person at ÃÛÌÒapp Discovery Day

March: Cohort Offers Sent

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Other Activities

Head off campus to explore an arts-centric city with staff or faculty from the Arts Collective. The travel course will earn elective credit and take place in your second year.

Attend six arts-based events sponsored by the Arts Collective during each of your first two years. Events range from workshops to studios to guest speakers to field trips off-campus! In your third and fourth year, participation will be optional but encouraged.

Be part of at least one campus arts group for a minimum of two semesters during your first two years.

Curriculum

Arts Collective students take courses together to fulfill several ÃÛÌÒapp Core (general education) requirements. Here is a sample of the set of courses you might take with the Arts Collective.

  • Fall: Arts Collective Community and Commitments (CORE 100) and Visual Culture (ART 153)
  • Spring: Urban Sociology (SOC 202)

  • Fall: Arts and Rhetoric Core course (e.g., Music Appreciation)
  • Spring: Literature of Faith (ENGL 250)

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