Tufts actually has a great fine arts program because they merged with the Museum of Fin Arts School about 2 years back.
http://www.mfa.org/news/smfa-tufts
UVT and Burlington are great if you consider that urban. I consider Burlington a city, albeit a small one, but I’m from northern New England and we don’t have huge cities. We had some guests visiting this past weekend and had this conversation as we explored a great local small city which they thought of as a town. 