EYP is currently designing a new Fine and Performing Arts Center to replace and expand the shared assembly and exhibition facilities currently provided in the Martin Luther King Jr. Communications Center and support the Department of Fine and Performing Arts. The main purpose of this new facility is to support it's current and projected academic programs offered through the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, including history, visual arts, applied music, music theory, and theater arts; foster current and projected student activities related to the arts, including the Art Guild, Bowie Gospel Choir, Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, Marching Band, and the University Concert Choir; offer the University and the rapidly growing regional community with a mix of performance facilities that can meet a broad range of performance venues; exhibit the creative diversity of the visual arts - painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics, and graphics; and promote formal and informal collegial exchange through study and lounge facilities.

Major Functions in the new facility will include a 160-seat Recital Hall with a stage and projection/control room; a 400-seat Theater with stage, orchestra pit, and trap room and projection/control room to support musical and other theater as well as large assemblies; a 100-200 flexible seat Black Box Theater; and 80-seat Dance Theatre; dressing rooms, shops, and merchandising facilities to support productions or performances in different venues; classrooms, class laboratories, and open laboratories to support the instructional functions related to the fine and performing arts; faculty offices; an Arts Resource Center which comprises an open study area, stack space for art slides, choral and instrumental sheet music, theatrical scripts, and a portfolio preparation room; an Art Gallery; lounge facilities; and other building support spaces.