Artistic education is the main way to carry out esthetic education at colleges,but esthetic education is always a weak link in all college education and it is often ignored.This paper discusses the extension and deepening of esthetic education in college artistic education from the relationship between esthetic education and artistic edcation,the carriers of artistic education,developing characteristic artistic education and activities,and the combination with the social practice,so as to explore the good ways to carry out college esthetic education in minority nationality areas.