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The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Painting informs the present and future of the medium, from traditional canvas to interdisciplinary painting practices, due to the distinguished legacy of painting at SFAI.
Students in the Art and Technology major at SFAI learn the technical, conceptual, historical, and theoretical skills needed to produce contemporary art using technological forms such as time-based and networked media, digital media, audio, programming, and electronics.
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a private college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mississippi River. Approximately 220 undergraduates and 112 graduate students were enrolled in 2021.
If you have 30-75 transferrable college credits, you can finish your BFA/BA degree with us in 1½-3 years. Double majors are available. Learn more about SFAI's undergraduate programs. SFAI disciplines challenge conventions and push students to discover uncharted artistic terrain.
The BFA in New Genres courses are cross-disciplinary laboratories for experimentation, discovery, and radical boundary-pushing. Through dialogue, critique, and practice, students learn to hone and better articulate their own visual language.
The BFA in Film investigates the full range of moving-image genres, including experimental, narrative, documentary, animation, and hybrid forms. At SFAI, students study filmmaking in the broader context of contemporary art practice.
The BFA in Printmaking curriculum provides students the opportunity to work with lithography, intaglio, screenprinting, letterpress, artists’ books, and relief. Digital methods for the production of two- and three-dimensional works are integrated throughout.
