Watkins College of Art at Belmont University is an art and design college of Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.

[1] The college resides in a 60,000-square-foot (5,600 m2) facility in the MetroCenter area of north Nashville and offers on-campus housing.

Watkins was accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD).

[2] First located on Church Street in downtown Nashville, the school moved to temporary facilities in the 100 Oaks area in 1999, and then to a permanent location in 2002.

[4] The merger plans were not welcomed by all Watkins students and faculty with some particularly concerned about Belmont University's practices of firing non-Christian faculty and staff and restrictions of practices deemed incompatible with the university's Christian beliefs e.g., not allowing drawings of nude models, demanding a director remove swearing from a play's script.