For 35 years, the University of Florida College of Fine Arts has offered students the opportunity to pursue study of the arts, while also providing the advantages afforded by a leading comprehensive research institution. The size and breadth of the University of Florida equips the College of Fine Arts to offer its students access to state-of-the-art facilities, interdisciplinary course offerings, lectures, performances, exhibitions and master classes by internationally renowned artists and scholars.

College of Fine Arts students work with a faculty of dedicated teachers, accomplished artists, and highly respected scholars in its three fully accredited schools of Art and Art History, Music and Theatre and Dance.

The College of Fine Arts offers professional instruction for students seeking careers in the arts through the undergraduate and graduate curricula in Acting, Art Education, Art History, Ceramics, Conducting, Costume Design, Creative Photography, Dance, Digital Arts and Sciences, Digital Media, Drawing, Ethnomusicology, General Theatre, Graphic Design, Lighting Design, Museum Studies, Music in Combination with an Outside Field, Music Education, Music History and Literature, Music Performance, Music Theatre, Music Theory and Composition, Musicology, Painting, Printmaking, Sacred Music, Scene Design, Sculpture, and Visual Art Studies.

Approximately 1700 students major in these curricula, while an additional 5000 university students enroll in courses and participate in various creative and cultural opportunities offered by the College of Fine Arts.

The college’s centers, institute and affiliates including the Center for the Arts and Public Policy; the Center for World Arts; Digital Worlds Institute, Center for the Arts in Healthcare, Research and Education and the University Galleries; the Visual Resources Center and the New World School for the Arts, Miami, provide expanded course offerings and unique research and performance opportunities.

Our faculty is engaged in creating and producing art for public art commissions, and exhibiting and performing their work in national and international venues.

Our excellent faculty has received many important national international awards and honors, such as the Rome Prize, Guggenheim Fellowships, Getty Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowships, Smithsonian Institute Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Awards, National Endowment for the Humanities Awards, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Grants and many more.

The College of Fine Arts offers students the opportunity to study and perform abroad in Austria, China, England, France, Greece, Italy, Mexico, and Scotland.