For more than three years, Brigham Young University's College of Fine Arts and Communications has called the old Provo High School home.
As construction wraps up on the new Arts Building, students are finishing their last semester at West Campus. While many are excited for the new facility, others are taking this time to say goodbye to their temporary home.
Kiana Scott, a BYU junior and theatre arts studies major, said she will miss the building.
"Honestly, it’s bittersweet. I’ve learned to love these hallways and the people and the not-working air conditioning," she said.
The old building has plenty of quirks.
“From the outside, you can kind of justify it like this is okay, and then you come in, you're like, ‘Yeah, this is a high school,'" Scott said. "For one, the mainstage is built out of a gymnasium. There are also rumors of a ghost. We got a West Campus ghost."
BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications associate dean Eric Gillett said West Campus taught the college a valuable lesson.
"In Provo High, I think the thing that I learned the most was that it didn’t matter what the physical facility was," Gillett said. "It's really about the students and the faculty and what they do together, and the space was not as important as we maybe thought it was."
The new building will provide lots of space and equipment.
"There are a lot of majors in this building that didn’t exist when the Harris Fine Arts Center was built, like animation. And now there’s a beautiful animation studio, there’s a beautiful new cinema theater that we’ve never had before,” Gillett said.
The new Arts Building is set to welcome its first class of students in fall 2026.
"It’ll be nice to feel like we’re part of campus again. You know, go to the Wilk for lunch if we want to and just work in a professional building," Scott said.
Until then, students will cherish the time they have left at West Campus.