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Current graduate and undergraduate students, CFA-ers learning on campus or online, and recently admitted Terriers can find resources and helpful information.
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Beyond the Classroom Series
In CFA’s Beyond the Classroom Series, music, theatre, and visual arts students at BU share their work experiences. These Terriers express how the resources at BU prepared them for success beyond the classroom. Want to be featured? Submit your story for a chance to be featured on CFA's news and social media channels!
Upcoming Events
There's always something going on at CFA! Check out our full calendar of performances, exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and student events.
2025 MFA Painting Thesis Exhibition
BFA & BA Thesis Exhibitions
BA in Art Capstone Exhibition
School of Theatre 2025 Boston Showcase
BA in Art Capstone Reception
BA in Art Capstone Exhibition
BFA & BA Thesis Exhibitions
2025 MFA Painting Thesis Exhibition
Latest News
Read some recent stories of CFA student accolades, folks doing interesting work, and other campus news.
Actor Emily Deschanel Named 2025 CFA Convocation Speaker and BU Commencement Speaker
Best known for her role as Dr. Temperance Brennan on Bones, Deschanel will inspire the CFA Class of 2025 as their Convocation Speaker and will address BU’s graduating class at the 152nd Commencement ceremony
YouTube Turns 20—How Have Its 20 Billion Videos Changed Us?
CFA Dean Harvey Young shares how the platform has helped emerging artists introduce themselves and be discovered
Boston Globe feature: Fool the eye and scramble assumptions is the goal of this artist
Lucy Kim, Associate Professor of Art, Painting at BU School of Visual Arts, makes casts and paints them in incongruous ways.
Boston University School of Visual Arts Presents the 2025 Undergraduate Thesis Exhibitions
Exhibitions feature works by graduating seniors in BFA Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Design, and the BA in Art
Kahn Award in Hand, CFA School of Music Grad Returns to Her Hometown
Tuba player Nyla Mawire (CFA’25) will use the $20,000 prize to bolster music education in her hometown
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
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