The Studio Art Program Department of Art and Art History in the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin has an undergraduate enrollment of over 700 students. The Studio Division is the largest serving 568 Undergraduates and 36 Graduates in the Fall of 2000. The Department of Art and Art History offers the MFA, BFA and BA Degrees in Studio. These courses are taught by a faculty of over thirty distinguished artists. This diverse faculty represents a wide range of teaching, styles of working, and aesthetic philosophies.
Faculty teach the entire sequence, from beginning courses through the graduate program.
As this curriculum demands studio work time as a measure of discipline and focus, the undergraduate studio classes meet eight hours a week, enabling a concentrated amount of time in the studios for the students' creative development. The Studio Division, undergraduate and graduate programs, share the four story Art Building as part of the whole College of Fine Arts complex near the center of The University of Texas Campus. The Art Building studios are situated with the second floor as ground level. These studios are modern facilities recently enhanced with the addition of a new air quality system designed to provide a safe working environment. The third floor has the drawing and design studios, and the staff offices for undergraduate and graduate advising and the administrative offices for the studio division.