University of Texas At San Antonio

University of Texas At San Antonio

College of Liberal and Fine Arts at the University of Texas at San Antonio!

As a COLFA student, you will have access to knowledge and understanding that spans the globe through our departments of History, Political Science and Geography, and Modern Languages and Literatures. You will discover the genius of writers, philosophers, artists, and musicians across the ages through our departments of English, Philosophy and Classics, Art and Art History, and Music. You will engage in timely research on language and communication through our department of Communication and our programs in linguistics, translation and interpreting, and professional and technical writing. You will gain humanities-informed career preparation in our interdisciplinary programs in Medical Humanities, Healthcare Interpreting, and Museum Studies.  

 

COLFA is the college that is dedicated to exploring, metabolizing, understanding, and representing the human experience in the totality of its diversity, in the contexts of its environments, and in the arc of its history. Because of this, here in COLFA we view ourselves as the heart and soul of UTSA. I invite you to be a part of everything that COLFA has to offer.

School of Art

The School of Art offers a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art, a Master of Arts in Art History, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art, a Bachelor of Arts in Art, and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Criticism, as well as a Minor in Art History and Criticism. The College of Liberal and Fine Arts also offers a Minor in Museum Studies. These degree programs subscribe to the College of Liberal and Fine Arts Signature Experience through practical experience achieved in the following courses: ART 4833 Internship in the Visual Arts, ART 4983 B.F.A. Senior Seminar and Exhibition, and AHC 4933 Art Gallery and Museum Internship. UTSA is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. Read our MISSION STATEMENT.

School of Music

Resources

UTSA Art students have access to facilities at the Arts Building and West Campus Studios at the 1604 Main Campus as well as the myriad of workspaces and studios at the newly integrated UTSA Southwest Campus.

UTSA Art Gallery

The UTSA Art Gallery, located at the 1604 Main Campus and the Russell Hill Rogers Galleries, located on the UTSA Southwest Campus, exhibit work from local, national, and international artists.

South Texas

Our faculty, graduate students and alumni continue to greatly impact the Texas and the national art community, through exhibitions, publications and curatorial projects.

Along with Art Pace, the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Sala Diaz, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Southwest School of Art, and the McNay Art Museum, the Department of Art and Art History at UTSA is one of the major art institutions serving South Texas.

Art & Art History Programs

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