The aim of our Faculty of Fine Arts and Design is to train self-confident, competent and successful artists and designers, to contribute to the artistic richness of our province and our country, to maintain the artistic values of the society at a universal level, to create senior staff in art and design activities in the industrial sectors and education.

The name of our Faculty, which was established in 2015 as the Faculty of Fine Arts, was changed to “Faculty of Fine Arts and Design” with the Presidential Decree No. 4055 published in the Official Gazette dated June 2021 and numbered 31499. There are 4 departments within our faculty; Painting, Music, Traditional Turkish Arts and Graphic Design. In our faculty, while the Painting and Music Departments continue their active education and training activities, we continue our efforts to activate the Traditional Turkish Arts and Graphic Design Departments as soon as possible.

In the Department of Painting, which received its first students in the 2017-2018 Academic Year; 5 faculty members are working. In the Department of Music, which admitted its first students in the 2018-2019 academic year, there are 5 faculty members, including 4 lecturers and 1 lecturer. In the Department of Traditional Turkish Arts, 6 lecturers, including 3 lecturers and 3 lecturers, are working in the Department of Carpet, Rug and Old Fabric Patterns and the Department of Illumination, Miniature and Marbling.

As of the 2022-2023 Academic Year, a total of 145 students, including 80 students in the Painting Department, 62 students in the Music Department and 3 students in the Traditional Turkish Arts Department, are studying at the undergraduate level. In addition, as a result of the decision taken at the meeting of the Higher Education Executive Board dated 20/04/2021, it has been approved to open a “Master’s Program with Thesis in Compound Arts” within the Graduate Education Institute of our University, which will provide interdisciplinary education. Our program will start accepting students from the Fall Semester of the 2022-2023 Academic Year. In addition, we continue our efforts to open new departments within our Faculty that can provide added value to its region and country.

Efforts to improve the physical conditions of our faculty are ongoing, and it is planned to move to the new building to be used by our Faculty with the completion of the Central Campus of our University in a short time.

In addition to planning to increase the number and diversity of the academic and administrative staff of our faculty with the growth of our faculty, our faculty is taking firm steps to achieve its goals by working in harmony with the existing academic and administrative staff with a democratic, participatory, productive, efficient management style.

Our entire staff is willing to cooperate in all kinds of cooperation and has experience in collaborating with public institutions and organizations, private sector, NGOs and other stakeholders, taking part in national and international projects, planning and implementing artistic activities.