Join a collaborative art education community where your creativity empowers others and becomes the foundation for a meaningful, lifelong career.
Welcome to the College of Fine Arts
The arts are essential. We treat them that way.
The University of Kentucky College of Fine Arts offers more than 40 degree programs, including offerings you won't find elsewhere: Kentucky's only graduate program in music therapy, with clinical training at UK HealthCare; the nation's first fully online PhD in Arts Administration; and an MFA in Curatorial Studies that puts students to work in real exhibition spaces from day one.
Behind the College's innovative research, grants, and events is a monumental institutional commitment to the arts. A $150 million gift from The Bill Gatton Foundation - the largest in the history of the University - is funding a home for it all: a reimagined arts district anchored by a new College of Fine Arts building. The future of the arts is being built right now.
Mission: The College of Fine Arts declares that the arts are essential to the life of the individual and the community. We express our commitment to the arts through dedication to teaching, scholarly research, artistic experimentation, performance, outreach, and exhibition.
Accreditations
The University of Kentucky is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music. Last visit: 2018. The University of Kentucky is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Theatre. Last visit: 2017
New Campus Arts District Announced
A Transformational Gift to the Arts
The Bill Gatton Foundation’s $150 million gift — one of the largest in UK’s history — will create a new home for the arts at the University of Kentucky. The project includes a new College of Fine Arts building, a modern performance theater, and public greenspace that will anchor a growing arts and innovation corridor along South Broadway.
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BA
Ready to develop astute observational tools to analyze our image-rich world?
BA
Direct your future in film, sound, and media with a degree that lets you design your own path.
BMME
Love music? Learn to teach it with confidence, creativity, and a foundation as strong as your musicianship.
MA
Ready to deepen your practice and lead in the classroom, the community, and the conversation?
MA
Ready to transform your passion for art into creative scholarship?
MA, PhD
What stories do global musical traditions tell us about humanity?
MM
Develop your technique, collaborate with artists, and prepare for a career in a dynamic landscape.
MFA
Open doors to a career full of exploration, critical thinking, and a practice based in hands-on making.
MFA
Challenge conventions and create conversations through curatorial practice.
DMA
Develop your technique, collaborate with artists, and prepare for a career in a dynamic landscape.
DMA
Train at the highest level to perform, teach, and lead in a dynamic musical landscape.
PhD
Advance the future of music education through rigorous research and innovative scholarship.
MA, PhD
What stories do global musical traditions tell us about humanity?
Minor
Add depth to your major with a minor that reveals how art reflects and transforms history.
Minor
Build your technical mastery and collaborative skills with a minor in Music Performance.
Minor
Complement your major with insights that resonate beyond the concert hall.
Undergraduate Certificate
Ready to master the Baroque trumpet as it was meant to be played?
Undergraduate Certificate
Uncover your entrepreneurial skills.
Undergraduate Certificate
Turn your creative vision into the next must-watch story.
Graduate Certificate
Learn music-teaching strategies to develop imagination, coordination, and expression.
Graduate Certificate
Teach music through poems, rhymes, games, songs, and dances.
Graduate Certificate
Teach the language of music with confidence and clarity.
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