The Schools of CFA: The Ultimate Training Ground
CFA DEGREES & PROGRAMS
With more than 30 programs of study, on-campus and online modalities, and a full range of undergraduate and graduate options, CFA educates artists, musicians, performers, scholars, and educators at all stages of their professional careers.
Who Are We?
With programs in Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts, Boston University College of Fine Arts offers a wide array of pre-college, undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs, as well as a range of online degrees and certificates.
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The BU College of Fine Arts Experience
CFA Magazine
Making art and an impact. Discover the amazing stories of CFA's dynamic alums, friends, and faculty as well as the innovation happening right here on BU's campus.
Check out the most recent issue of CFA magazine, featuring the latest stories from the CFA Terrier community of artists, educators, and activists, including BU alums making impacts across all fields. Learn about CFA's new sustainable pigment and dye garden, an actor who's found commercial success opposite one famous emu, a pipe organ player who has taken his love for instrument all over the world, and an artist whose work explores blindness and its complexities.
Find their work everywhere from the small screen to outer space (Literally. Designing flight suits for astronauts!)
CFA's Latest Stories
Explore what's new in the ever-expanding world of CFA student, faculty, and alumni news and work.
BU Art Galleries’ Spring 2025 Exhibitions Explore Landscape, Perception, and Meaning
Trasluz / Translucent, works by Juan José Barboza-Gubo and Michael Zachary, and Constituent Parts: Cathy Della Lucia and Nicholas Antony Mancini in Dialogue challenge our thinking of how we make sense of the world
CFA in Bloom
New on-campus color garden allows student-artists to sustainably grow their own pigments, dyes, and fibers
“The Work I Want to Make”
S. Proski’s art explores blindness and its complexities
Out of This World Designs
After making sci-fi space travel look realistic on TV, costume designer Esther Marquis designs outfits for actual astronauts
A Commercial Star Is Born
As Liberty Mutual’s Doug, comedic actor David Hoffman cuts up opposite an emu in a now-iconic ad campaign
Gallery: Marc Schepens (CFA’12)
BU School of Visual Arts Interim Director and Senior Lecturer in Art, Painting is featured in Bostonia for his solo show, Stripers and Blues
Beyond the Classroom: Gwyneth Rix (CFA’25)
Vocal performance major participated in The Berlin Opera Academy's Summer Young Artist Program
BU Dickens Scholar Serves as Dramaturg for New Production of A Christmas Carol
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s A Christmas Carol stars noted BU alum Will Lyman (CFA’71) as Scrooge, with CFA alums and faculty on the creative team
Upcoming Events
There's always something going on at the College of Fine Arts! Check out all upcoming concerts, productions, exhibitions, lectures, and community events.
Jacob Webster: Fruition's View Exhibition
Jacob Webster: Fruition's View Exhibition
Jacob Webster: Fruition's View Exhibition
Jacob Webster: Fruition's View Exhibition
Jacob Webster: Fruition's View Exhibition
Jacob Webster: Fruition's View Exhibition
Jacob Webster: Fruition's View Exhibition
Jacob Webster: Fruition's View Exhibition
CFA In The News
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