We celebrate being a dynamic art school at a major research university.
The School of Art offers unique and exciting opportunities for students who are passionate about art in all of its diverse possibilities. We teach the next generation of artists–those who are adventurous, complex, precocious, innovative, noisy, reflective, curious, socially conscious, and dedicated to a life in the visual arts.
1875
First alumnus graduates
With a degree in painting
30+
Guest artists each year
Via our Visiting Artist Lecture Series
70,000
Square feet of shared space
For work, critiques, and exhibitions
Our faculty offers rigorous and multi-faceted learning experiences that prepare student-artists for professional and entrepreneurial careers.
We offer state-of-the-art facilities and studios, from the handmade to the digital. Our professionally active faculty fosters internships as well as international and national opportunities and brings the creative industries to the studio. Through guided mentorship, our student-artists craft their own course of study.
Undergraduate Majors
Undergraduate Visit Opportunities
Graduate Degree Programs
Mission
As a dynamic art school within a major research university, we enable unique intersections of diverse interests within creative communities.
Vision
Through social and studio practices, research, and teaching, we promote mastery, interdisciplinarity, student autonomy, and critical global citizenship.
Recent School of Art News
![Zoe Requena Bustillo installs her mixed-media work at the Warehouse Gallery.]()
Featured News
A Creative Culmination
Three graduating seniors are using their creative corners to construct capstone projects for a final exhibition at the Warehouse Gallery. The show is the culmination of their time in the studio arts B.F.A. program and a celebration of their artistic and personal growth. Read More...
![A photograph of a person wearing a military uniform. The photo has an effect of melting where the person's head should be, and a helicopter appears underneath the melted part of the photograph.]()
Featured News
VPA’s Warehouse Gallery to Present Three-Part M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition ‘Unforeseen’
The College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Warehouse Gallery will present “Unforeseen,” a three-part exhibition of thesis work by 32 master of fine arts (M.F.A.) students in the college’s School of Art and Department of Film and Media Arts. Part one of the exhibition runs March 22-28 with an opening reception on Friday, March 21, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The gallery is located in the Nancy Cantor Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. Read More...
![Ryan Bode, Emily Castillo-Langley, Ethan Davis, Aphrodite Gioulekas, Sidney Hanson, Erin Keith. Bottom row, left-right: Kelsey Quinn Leary, Angelina Lim, Mason Romero, Danielle Spring, Eleni Stavros, Abigail Wood.]()
Featured News
College of Visual and Performing Arts Announces 2025 VPA Scholars
Twelve seniors in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) have been named VPA Scholars, the college’s highest undergraduate academic honor. Read More...
