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At SA/VS, we believe that a creative life is an extraordinary life. We’re a home for inspired creatives, educators, and visual scholars who make creativity central to their experience.  Every day, SA/VS is alive with activity: Sculpture students critique large metal installations in the atrium while students in a Fiber class quilt outside in the sun. A Performance Art class explores ideas for costuming and public interaction while a Graphic Design class displays typographic posters. Students install an exhibition in the Bolivar Art Gallery, in the seminar room, students interpret cultures past and present through their visual arts, and upstairs, students in Printmedia create zines by layering ink with a Risograph. From guerilla art, digital illustration, and 3D-printing to painting, animation, and still-life drawing, whatever creative opportunity you’re looking for, it’s happening here!

Celebrate With Us: CFA 50th Anniversary
A collage of old black and white photos from the College's history: left is an old theatre production in renaissance costumes, top middle is a student drawing on a large canvas, bottom middle is a woman installing a plaque next to a painting in an art gallery, right is a woman playing the flute in a practice room with an ensemble.

Find Out Where We Started, Discover Where We're Headed

For 50 years, the College of Fine Arts has fostered creative excellence, inspired innovation, and strengthened communities across Kentucky and beyond. See the CFA Timeline, learn about the 50 People of CFA, and look forward to special events during the 2026-27 season to celebrate 50 years of Fine Arts at UK!

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Explore our MFAs in Art Studio and Curatorial Studies, our MA in Art History and Visual Studies, and a new fully-online MA in Art Education (pending).

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