Welcome to Art

The School of Art is an inclusive learning environment that promotes creativity and scholarship, and mirrors the wide range of cultural, artistic and scholarly interests in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A student with a paint stained apron standing in a middle of a cluttered but charming studio.

 

Why Study Art at SFSU?

Join our inclusive learning environment where we promote creativity and scholarship, mirroring the wide range of cultural, artistic and scholarly interests in the San Francisco Bay Area. You’ll become a socially aware, collaborative artist making culture paramount to your practice.  

You’ll graduate with valuable and transferrable skills in creative problem solving and conceptual thinking. You’ll be astute at conducting research on art history, as well as technical skills in diverse media:

Painting • Photography • Video • Sound • Ceramics • Textiles • Printmaking • Sculpture • Drawing • Digital Technologies

Our school is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. 

Our Programs

Create, Exhibit and Grow

Robust Facilities

Our facilities include a 3,000 square-foot professional gallery and the Martin Wong Undergraduate Gallery, well-equipped studio facilities, computer laboratories and graduate studio spaces.

Installation view of Lisa Solomon’s amime-net (left) and amime-knots (right). Photo credit: Claire S Burke

Student Exhibitions

Showcase your student work in the Fine Arts Gallery and the Martin Wong Gallery and curate exhibitions with your peers, professors and guest artists.

 

King's Cup exhibition by S. Apollo Fisher in the Martin Wong Gallery.

Engaged Faculty

Our faculty are renowned professional artists in ceramics, digital media, fiber and materials, painting, drawing, photography, printmaking and sculpture. 

Art instructor provides feedback to a student working on a drawing during a studio art class.
Emma Wakefield sits in a chair in front of a floral mural in the SFSU School of Art’s sculpture courtyard on a sunny day; Emma is wearing a white knitted cap, eyeglasses, a blue sweater over a purple California shirt with images of flowers, blue jeans, yellow and green socks, and white and gray sneakers

From Our Community

Attending San Francisco State, as a whole, changed my life. I met a bunch of people from different backgrounds and different cultures, talking with them and learning more about them — and seeing something outside from my very small town.
Emma Wakefield
B.A., ’22