Spring Scholarship Opportunities are now open for applicants from the Department of Art

Applicants will need to login to the UB Scholarship Portal, fill out the “General Application”, then apply for individual scholarships. Faculty references required for both of these opportunities.

Evelyn Rumsey Lord Travel Award: Competition Exhibition

This annual award competition has an exhibition showcasing artworks by last year’s winners (Avani Bodden, and Micky Pearson) created with inspiration from their award trips to Paris, and Greece respectively, as well as the 6 applicants for this year’s award:
Dessi Furber, Manya Jain, Gabriela Martinez, Brianna Tejeda, Denae Wagner, Tangjin Xu

These undergraduate Art students exhibit up to 5 works for art for the exhibit, which will be juried in tandem with their travel proposals, by the Department’s Faculty and Staff.

Come see this selection of skillful and creative work!

Exhibition 3/1 - 3/30/2024, public reception and awards Th. 3/7, 5-7PM.

Click here for more info.

Behind the Scenes: Inside the Sculpture Studio

Students in Reinhard Reitzenstein’s Sculpture class turn simple pieces of plywood into works of art.

Areas of Study

Explore and shape the future of art. Emerging Practices, Art and Technology
is a multidisciplinary studio practice that builds on knowledge of emerging technologies such as interactive multi-media, electronic installation, networked telematic communication, robotic art, three-dimensional simulation, biotechnology, and algorithmic image synthesis.
The currency of performance-based art lies in its capacity to be utilized in the most extreme, urgent, and quotidian of situations, incorporating live and mediated means.
Print Media students work in an atmosphere of intellectual exploration and investigation, with comprehensive print facilities for developing and refining their personal vision.
Explore line, shape and form in a variety of mediums on a diversity of scale. Work in large rooms with skylights and spotlights at dimensions that are only limited by your imagination. Here, we explore everything from still-life and life drawing to anatomical and architectural drawing. Our award-winning instructors are here to help you refine and expand your skills.
Photography is concerned with producing creative artists and professional photographers who are fluent in a wide variety of photographic productions, techniques, and critical concerns.
Today’s digitally networked culture and industry demand increasing levels of visual literacy. Communication in the 21st century is an ecology of information, knowledge production, and visual rhetoric that shapes the way people understand our world.
Painting is continually evolving, producing an enormous variety of responses to philosophies and technological developments. These changes have always been part of the discipline, whether it meant moving from the frescoed surface to wood panels or from hand-mixed paints to digital techniques.
The sculpture and installation program encourages students to investigate a multitude of methods, materials, and conceptual approaches. Students in this area employ a range of fabrication techniques and technologies to engage with the material, technical, aesthetic, and theoretical dimensions of contemporary sculpture practice.
Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts is a hybrid studio laboratory facility dedicated to enabling hands-on creative engagement with tools and technologies from the life sciences.
In today’s broad and immersive visual world, the Art History program is committed to studying the visual arts as tools for exploring and decoding culture.

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.

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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.