Facilities: The Meadows School of the Arts boasts one of the finest facilities for arts education in the United States. It is based in three buildings on the SMU campus: the Owen Arts Center, the Umphrey Lee Center and the Meadows Museum.

The Owen Arts Center houses the Greer Garson Theatre (a classical thrust stage), the Bob Hope Theatre (a proscenium theatre), the Margo Jones Theatre (a black box theatre), Caruth Auditorium (which includes a 51-stop, 3681-pipe Fisk organ), the Charles S. Sharp Performing Arts Studio, the O'Donnell Lecture/Recital Hall, and several smaller performance spaces, as well as classrooms, studios, rehearsal areas and computer labs. The Doolin Gallery in the Owen Arts Center and the Pollock Gallery, housed in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center, are the art exhibition spaces of the Division of Art. Together, these performance and exhibition spaces serve as an important cultural center for the community, hosting hundreds of concerts, lectures, performances and exhibitions annually.

The Umphrey Lee Center is home to several of the communication arts divisions. It includes classroom and lab space, as well as faculty and administrative offices. The Belo Journalism Complex includes television and radio studios, computer labs, and editing suites, in addition to offices and support areas.

The Meadows Museum, which opened in its new building in 2001, exhibits one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of Spanish art outside of Spain, including works of such masters as El Greco, Velázquez, Ribera, Montañes, Murillo, Goya, Sorolla, Picasso, Gris, Miró and Tápies. The Elizabeth Meadows Sculpture Collection includes important works by such modern sculptors as Rodin, Maillol, Lipschitz, Henry Moore, Marini, Giacometti, Noguchi, David Smith and Claes Oldenburg.

The four-story Jake and Nancy Hamon Arts Library is adjacent to the Owen Arts Center and houses all arts library collections, an audio/visual center and the Center for Instructional Technology in the Arts. The G. William Jones Film and Video Collection, a part of the library's holdings, is housed in the Greer Garson Theatre's 3,800-square-foot refrigerated storage vault, with screening rooms also in the building.