School of Art and Design Admissions
Make work that is unmistakably yours.
Develop your creative voice through hands-on studio experiences, close faculty mentorship, and opportunities to exhibit and share your work.
Whether you want to become an artist, designer, educator, or creative professional, UNC will help you build the skills, confidence, and experience to move your work forward.
Choose Your Application Path
Undergraduate Students
Explore bachelor’s degrees in Art Education, Graphic Design and Studio Art. No portfolio is required for undergraduate admission, so you can begin your path by applying directly to UNC.
Graduate Students
Advance your studio practice through the mostly online Master of Arts in Art and Design or Studio Art Graduate Certificate. Both programs combine flexible online study with focused, in-person summer studio experiences.
Find Your Place at UNC
Develop Your Creative Voice
Explore ideas, materials, and methods while building the technical and conceptual skills to communicate through your work.
Learn Through Making
Work hands-on across traditional and digital practices, including ceramics, drawing, graphic design, integrated media arts, metals, painting, printmaking, and sculpture and digital fabrication.
Work Closely with Faculty
Learn in small classes with guidance from experienced faculty who are practicing artists, designers, educators, and scholars.
Share Your Work
Participate in exhibitions, critiques, internships, collaborative projects, and other professional experiences that prepare you for your next step.
Scholarships & Financial Aid
The School of Art and Design offers talent and foundation scholarships to help students pursue their creative and educational goals.
Undergraduate students may submit an optional portfolio for scholarship consideration. Students should also complete the UNC Scholarship Application to be considered for additional opportunities.
Experience Art and Design
The best way to understand the School of Art and Design is to experience it. Explore our studios and galleries, observe a class, meet faculty when available, and see where UNC students create, exhibit, and collaborate.
During your visit, you may be able to tour studio and classroom spaces, explore the UNC Galleries, observe a class, meet students and faculty, and learn about degrees, portfolios, and scholarships.
Contact PVA Admissions
Not sure which program is right for you or how to begin? PVA Admissions can help you compare programs, understand the application process, prepare a scholarship portfolio and plan your visit.
PVA Admissions
PVA.Admissions@unco.edu
970-351-1921