With more than 3,000 students participating in the performing arts at RIT, including a record 601 new Performing Arts Scholars and more than 50 performing arts-focused student clubs, it’s not hard to find instrumental, vocal, theatrical, and dance performances on and around campus throughout the year.

Thomas Warfield, director of dance and professor of practice at NTID's Department for Performing Arts, appeared on WXXI's Connections with Evan Dawson to discuss consumer's relationships with artists and their creative work, and whether one can truly separate the art from the artist.

Award-winning performer and Rochester, N.Y., native Thomas Warfield has been named the first Professor of Practice by Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf.