Boston University College of Fine Arts

08/31/2026

ATTEND: Welcome back to campus, CFA-ers! 🐾 What better way to start the new fall semester than by learning all that Boston University and the City of Boston have to offer when it comes to the arts at the 2026 Fall Arts Fair! 🖼️🎭🎻

Hosted annually by our friends at BU Office for the Arts, the BU community is invited to learn about available BU arts programs and Boston-area arts organizations. The fair offers discounts, special offers, internship opportunities, and more!

This year, BU Office for the Arts will offer quick custom portraits by local artist Sabrina Dorsainvil. ✍️ There will also be a raffle to win a $75 Coolidge Corner Theatre gift card for BU students! See you at the fair 👋

📆 Friday, September 4
🕐 11am - 2pm
📌 GSU Plaza, 775 Commonwealth Ave.
🆓 Free event! Open to all BU students, staff, and faculty

08/28/2026

WELCOME: As the school year is about to start, we're taking some time to celebrate incoming CFA graduate students, ready to take on BU and become experts in their respective fields.

Get to know some of your future classmates, where they are coming from, and their hopes as new CFA Terriers. 🎒🏫📚

💻 "I am an MFA Graphic Design student with a BS in Creative Advertising from San Jose State University. As an artist, I focus on digital media, painting/drawing, and photography. I am looking forward to starting my journey at Boston University!" -Amyya Alexander (CFA'28), MFA Graphic Design

🎭 "BU has been on my radar for years since I've visited New England after I graduated from University of Florida. Upon meeting BU's faculty and alums, learning more about CFA and how it supports building collaborative creative opportunities and connections in theatrical and art spaces, I knew BU was the right fit for me." Ora Wolfgram (CFA'28), MFA Scene Design

🎶 "I chose BU because it has an amazing reputation, an incredible music program, and so many opportunities to gain real-world experience. I’m really looking forward to learning more, growing as a mature musician, and most importantly, meeting lots of wonderful people!" -Wenyu Wiang (CFA'28), DMA Choral Conducting

🌎 "I chose BU because of the many musical opportunities it had to offer, especially in its Latin American musical opportunities. As an ethnomusicologist, I want to study Latin and Japanese music as my focus, but I am highly interested in all types of music." -Norma Callejas (CFA'28), MA Ethnomusicology

08/27/2026

PREP: 🍂🍁 Fall 2026 is right around the corner, and we can't wait to have all our students on campus. We've missed you! ❤️ 🐾

Returning students and incoming Boston University CFA Class of 2030 students, get a head start on the academic year by becoming familiar with resources available to you! We're here to support you along the way and ensure that your time at BU and in the City of Boston is one filled with meaningful moments and an arts-rich experience.

Resources and more ➡️ http://spr.ly/6185B1Ihq1

08/26/2026

OPENING SOON: Boston University Art Galleries is ready to kick off the fall 2026 semester at CFA with exhibitions opening next Wednesday, September 2! 🖼️

Fourteen featured artists (including BU School of Visual Arts' Toni Pepe, Associate Professor of Art, Photography; Co-Chair of Graduate Studies in Print Media & Photography) investigate the medium of newspaper in the exhibition Between the Bylines at BUAG’s Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery. 📰

The Boston Printmakers return to BUAG's 808 Gallery to present the 2026 North American Print Biennial, juried by Esther Adler, Curator at the MoMA The Museum of Modern Art. 📖 Alongside the Biennial, Throughlines: Contemporary Works in Print, an exhibition celebrating both the extraordinary professional artists of the Boston Printmakers Board and the young artists in BU’s MFA in Print Media and Photography program, will be on view in the 808 Hall Gallery.

"The 2026 Fall exhibitions have a little bit for everyone—there is printmaking, painting, photography, new media, and sculpture," says Lissa Cramer, Director of BU Art Galleries. "They bring artistic excellence from around the country to BU, with Between the Bylines reaching internationally as well. Together, they offer our visitors the opportunity to experience a wide range of practices and perspectives, and to discover something new."

Plan your visit to BUAG this fall! 🍂 Details ➡️ http://spr.ly/6184B1agYj

08/25/2026

📣 BU Terriers, join us for the BU Fall Arts Fair!

Come check out the BU Office for the Arts, BU Art Programs, academic units, and selected Boston-area arts and cultural organizations to explore all the arts that BU and Boston have to offer.

Stop by our table to enter our raffle for a chance to win a $75 Coolidge Theatre gift card. This year, we are excited to offer quick custom portraits by local artist Sabrina Dorsainvil. You can also look for fun giveaways, learn about opportunities, discounts, special offers, and more! Visit the link in our bio for more information 🔗

🍂 BU Fall Arts Fair 2026
📆 Friday, September 4, 2026 | 11am-2pm
📍 GSU Plaza - in front of the George Sherman Union at 775 Commonwealth Ave. (Ziskind Lounge Rain Location)

Flyer graphic designed and illustrated by Bithiah Holton ()

08/25/2026

08/25/2026

CREATIVES IN PRACTICE: As Manager of Graduate Student Services at CFA, Brandi Main's top priority is providing resources and support to graduate-level music, theatre, and visual arts students. A first-generation college grad, Brandi also serves as a Terrier F1RSTS Advocate through the Boston University Newbury Center. 🐾

Outside of Boston University, Brandi is a proud violin and piano teacher and frequently performs with the New England Film Orchestra and other Boston-based music groups. 🎬🎻🎶

A believer that “you never know where your path will lead you,” Brandi recently spoke with CFA about her professional engagements beyond the College and how they empower her in her role within the CFA Student Services team.

"I remember being a student in fine arts myself! I am frequently running to rehearsals, fitting in practice time, planning out my teaching for private lessons, all on top of my full-time BU job and personal life," says Brandi.

"I know our students are constantly managing their time in similar ways, so I aim to address the type of challenges they face by providing necessary resources or artist wellbeing events that support them through their college careers and beyond, and what I would have found helpful when I was a student." ❤️

Read more of the Q&A with Brandi ➡️ http://spr.ly/6183B1QygR

08/21/2026

THE RENAISSANCE MAN: After decades as a touring jazz musician, Victor Goines (CFA'27) is back in school. 📚 Goines, a jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer, led the nonprofit music center Jazz St. Louis from 2022 until February 2026. Before that, he toured extensively with Jazz at Lincoln Center, playing for 30 years under Wynton Marsalis (Hon.'92), the orchestra’s founder and managing and artistic director. 🎷

Goines' career has introduced him to a wealth of collaborators. He’s performed with musicians like Diana Ross, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Eric Clapton, and B.B. King. He mentored Jon Batiste, the Grammy-winning former bandleader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, when he was teaching at The Juilliard School (Goines is also on the music faculty at Loyola University New Orleans, the University of New Orleans, and Northwestern University).

And now, Goines is pursuing an online Doctor of Musical Arts in music education at Boston University School of Music. At CFA, Goines has embarked on a long-term research project where he’s compiled interviews with women in the orchestra pit, the bandstand, and the music classroom as he looks to address inequalities in music. “It has been revelatory,” he says of his work so far. “Orchestras are evolving and changing, but they’re not all the way there.”

More in Bostonia ➡️ http://spr.ly/6181B1lFT3

08/20/2026

08/20/2026

LOOK: A solo exhibition of works by the late artist Peri Schwartz (CFA’73) ran last spring at Gallery NAGA on Newbury Street in Boston. The show, Reverberations: Fifty Years of Still Lifes, included the last etchings and watercolors Schwartz made during her lifetime.

“She craved the sustained attention required of direct observation. It is a marvel, almost a contradiction, that the finished work appears so spacious and free, like an improvisation. Within the rules she imposed on herself, Schwartz found creative liberation,” writes Cody Upton, executive director of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in the introduction to the show’s catalog.

More in Bostonia ➡️ http://spr.ly/6182B1iWlj

🖼️ Bottles & Jars ### (2012), oil on canvas, 22 in. x 36 in. Photo by Julia Featheringill