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.
Guggenheim Fellowship Awarded to Renowned Printmaker and CFA Professor of Art, Lynne Allen
Now, in the program’s 100th year, six Boston University researchers and scholars have received the honor
Wheelock Family Theatre’s SpongeBob The Musical receives four Elliot Norton Award nominations in design
The biggest night for Boston theater, the 42nd Elliot Norton Awards Ceremony is set for June 2 at The Huntington Theatre
Get to Know the 2025 CFA Esther B. and Albert S. Kahn Awards Recipients
The annual CFA event, being held on Tuesday, April 22, honors six students' artistic excellence and helps support their work after graduation
Dozens of Dazzling Projects on View in Annual School of Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibitions
2025 Graphic design, sculpture, print media and photography, and visual narrative theses on display through April 19; MFA painting theses April 29 to May 18
Forget “Barbenheimer.” Try “Desdemilia.”
CFA plays "DESDEMONA a play about a handkerchief" and "Emilia" take on women and Shakespeare on the same set at the Booth Theatre
Can Missy Mazzoli Help Reinvent Opera in America?
CFA alum, composer, and Grammy nominee is working on a major commission from the Metropolitan Opera—and on widening the path for women in the field
How I Made This: Ethan Vettese (CFA’26)
As scene designer for Corpus Christi, running April 10 through 13 in CFA’s Studio ONE, Ethan Vettese (CFA’26) oversees the construction and design of the play’s set and the movement of its props
Beyond the Classroom: Print Media and Photography Students in Paris
Second-year graduate students visited Paris, France where they attended the Paris Photo fair, visited studios specializing in printmaking, and explored the magic found in the City of Lights
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.
Kahn Career Entry Awards
CFA Color Garden: Earth Day Planting
Tuesday Night Lecture Series: Cal Siegel
CFA Earth Day Sustainability Brunch
House for the End of the World: Performance: Site and Space Workshop
Gianni Schicchi/Suor Angelica
Emilia
Gianni Schicchi/Suor Angelica
CFA In The News
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