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India's President Honors Fine Art School Grad With Major Cultural Award

For her contributions in empowering girls from underprivileged backgrounds to communicate and assert themselves through dance, Academy School of Fine Art graduate Seema Mehta has been honored by India's President Ram Nath Kovind with the nation’s highest civilian award for women, the Nari Shakti Puraskar 2018.

Student Muralists Go 'Through the Looking Glass'

When you find yourself in the fascinating and whimsical world of Bob Pritikin, make art. That’s what three Academy of Art University students did over their spring break and throughout the rest of spring semester when they were hired to paint a mural by Bob Pritikin—former advertising executive, hotelier, teacher, author and collector-in-charge of the “Pritikin Museum.”

Professional Equipment

As a student in Jewelry & Metal Arts, you will have access to professional equipment like a 20-ton hydraulic press, as well as enameling, lost wax casting, and calibrated burnout kilns.

A Taste of Things to Come: Academy Student-Athletes See Success

Speaking and Writing Labs

Available onsite and online, international students can practice their English at Speaking and Writing Labs.

Industrial Design (MFA)

Animation & Visual Effects (AA)

Photography Grads Hone Skills at Marin Headlands

Capping the summer of 2019, eight photography students in the course assembled and put on exhibit their best photos of the Marin Headlands.

Early Scholar Grant

Academy of Art University is pleased to announce the Early Scholar Grant, which offers a limited number of awards worth $2,000 for those students which have applied to Academy of Art University for the Fall semester.

Urban Jungle

Academy students restore a beloved San Francisco mural & help an urban neighborhood

Motion Pictures & Television (Certificate)

School of Motion Pictures & Television | School of Motion Pictures & Television Faculty

Jana Sue Memel is an Academy Award-winning producer and writer. Ms. Memel has produced over 25 movies and over 65 half-hour, live-action shorts that have played as television series in more than 30 countries. She has produced films that won Writers Guild and Directors Guild Awards, Emmys, CableACE Awards and the Humanitas Prize.