with art emerging as an independent discipline, the art talents play an important role in the modern social economic and cultural life. To cultivate awareness of innovation, improve innovation ability is one of the main goals of college education, graduation thesis is not only an important means of training students' preliminary scientific research ability in the field, also the main index to test students' innovation ability. The thesis takes the college art students' graduation thesis as the research object, adopting the research method of theoretical analysis and empirical study. According to the features of art majors, this paper has an in-depth inquiry on the manifestation of the college art students' graduation thesis, aiming to make it more flexible, revealing more the professional characteristic and innovation awareness, striving to effectively test and reach the goal to enhance the art graduates' innovative ability.