[11] It also offers Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degrees in New Genres, Painting + Drawing, and 3D4M: ceramics + glass + sculpture.

In the Division of Art, Aaron Flint Jamison[18] was a 2017 Hallie Ford Fellow[19] and had work included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial;[20] Sangram Majumdar received a 2023 Gottlieb Foundation' grant, a 2018 New York Foundation for the Arts grant in Painting; and a 2010 Purchase Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters; Helen O'Toole was a winner of the 2015 Contemporary Northwest Art Awards[21] and has received a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship;[22] Timea Tihanyi[23] won a 2018 Neddy Artist Award.

[25] In the Division of Art History, Estelle Lingo[26] was a 2016–2018 Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA);[27] Haicheng Wang[28] received a 2017 New Directions Fellowship from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;[29] and Marek Wieczorek[30] is a 2020 NIAS Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

[33] She and her firm, Studio Matthews, have won multiple awards, including 2019 recognition from Communication Arts for an exhibition about University of Washington OMA&D.

[36] Interaction Design faculty Audrey Desjardins[37] and Axel Roesler[38] have won research awards from Mozilla and Google respectively.

[39] The school's primary home is the Art Building[40] on the main campus of the University of Washington in Seattle.

The school's main exhibition space, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, is in the Art Building.