WELCOME TO IFE ART SCHOOL

DEPARTMENT OF FINE AND APPLIED ARTS

OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY

ILE-IFE

In the last few years new and exciting things are happening in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, also known as ‘Ife Art School.

Please click on the link for an up-to-date calendar of events, and check back often as exhibitions, lectures, and presentations are added.

The Ife School of Art is on facebook, here you can see what our students, alumni, and staff members are up to.

The department is committed to developing professional artists, designers, and scholars who are dedicated to public discourse and interaction with their practice and production. These are emphasized and informed by aesthetic, intellectual, political, historical, cultural, and critical awareness.

We envision a school of art as a bridge between the Humanities, Technology and the various units in the Faculty of Environmental Design and Management. This is evident in the diverse artistic products cutting across these disciplines by both staff and students of the department.

Our students come from diverse geographic, ethnic, cultural, and aesthetic backgrounds. Within the department are distinguished and dedicated staff members who work hard to maintain a healthy balance between teaching expertise, professional creative work, scholarly research, and community service. In the last three years we have also attracted scholars from different universities as well as hosting Fulbright Scholars.

Our undergraduate and graduate programmes are well tailored to meet the needs of students, scholars and professionals in the academia, studio practice and industries. We continue to strive to acquire and equip our studios and workshops with materials and equipments necessary for the production of quality art works and designs.

Our Exhibition space in the African Studies Building holds a collection of contemporary works of art by students and staff of the departments as well as traditional arts and artefacts dating back to the sixteenth century.

We welcome prospective students, alumni and visitors to visit our website to have a look at these programmes, our students and the activities of the staff.

Aishat Umoru-Oke PhD

Ag. Head of Department