College of Fine Arts

About

About College of Fine Arts

College of Fine Arts is a government college in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, established in 1881. It is affiliated to University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. Campusbells lists it under Performing Arts.

The origins lie in the craft economy of nineteenth-century Travancore. The institution that it became grew through student agitation, administrative reform, and a sustained argument about the purpose of art education extending over more than a century. The College now conducts degree programmes in painting, sculpture, and applied art, alongside postgraduate courses in painting and sculpture, and an active programme of exhibitions, public events, and critical discourse.

Its commitments are to creative freedom, critical rigour, and the understanding of artistic practice as a field of public consequence. The campus, located in the heart of Thiruvananthapuram, centred on its Victorian Gothic heritage building of more than a century old, houses the College's Painting department, and an adjacent building houses a library of over six thousand titles, a developing institutional archive, and a gallery serving both academic and public exhibition programmes. The College is affiliated to the University of Kerala and administered by the Directorate of Technical Education, Government of Kerala.

As described on the institution’s website (cfakerala.ac.in)

At a glance

Key facts

Established

1881

Ownership

Public / Government

Stream

Performing Arts

Location

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Affiliated to

University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram

Institution type

Affiliated College

Management

State Government

AISHE code

C-43679