CFA building.
Welcome to Buffalo
1/19/19

Buffalo is New York’s second-largest city and has been home to many prominent artists, including Michael Zwack, Charles Clough, Robert Longo, Cory Archangel, Nancy Dwyer, Tony Conrad and Cindy Sherman. It was also home to Mary Burnett Talbert who helped to launch organized civil rights activism in America and to Serbian inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla.

Mural artist works in his studio.
Graduate studies
11/19/18

Students work in spacious, fully equipped studios in one of America's best designed cities. The University at Buffalo offers generous financial support packages to graduate students, in the form of stipends, travel funds, teaching/research assistantships, and full tuition waivers.

Students in a drawing studio.
Undergraduate Studies
11/19/18

The University at Buffalo’s Department of Art is housed within New York State’s premier public university. Our programs offer a unique convergence of contemporary art, technology, and critical discourse.

Collage of past visiting artists.
Visiting Artist Speaker Series
11/19/18

The Fall Visiting Artist Speaker Series brings important artists, designers, and thinkers to the University at Buffalo.

Performance Artist Nick Cave work, and Photographer Martin Kruck photo.
Creative Arts Initiative: Artists-in-Residence
11/19/18

Performance Artist Nick Cave and Photographer Martin Kruck will be on campus as part of The University at Buffalo’s Creative Arts Initiative 2018-19 artists-in-residence.

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The Department of Art at the University at Buffalo is dedicated to developing creative and academic skills in studio art, post-studio art, graphic design, aesthetics, critical theory, and art history. Since its founding, our department has been committed to shepherding innovative approaches and new practices. We empower our students to represent their unique visions within a contemporary cultural environment.

Future Students

Printmaking student in the studio.

Our student body represents a diverse cross-section of the nation and the world. As a small art and design school situated within one of the nation's largest and most comprehensive research universities, students get the best of both worlds.

Meet Our Faculty

Professor Paul Vanouse with student and colored glass balls.

Our faculty bring to the studio and classroom their commitment to excellence in skill building, creative problem solving, skill building, and innovation to the classroom. As practicing artists, makers, scholars, researchers, and activists, our faculty offer expert guidance in today’s creative fields.

Visiting Artists

Visiting artist Shantell martin.

Visiting Artist Lecture Series
 Every Fall Semester
Mondays, 6:30pm
112 Center for the Arts
on UB's North Campus

Open to the public

Events Calendar

Student with plant bio-art.
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