Located on the banks of the Qinhuai River and under the Stone City, Nanjing University of the Arts is the only comprehensive higher art institution in Jiangsu Province.
Dating back to 1912, the founder of Chinese art education, Mr. Liu Haisu, founded the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. In 1930, it was renamed the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. Mr. Cai Yuanpei served as the chairman of the board of directors of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. In 1922, Mr. Yan Wen? founded the Suzhou Academy of Fine Arts in Suzhou. The two earliest private art schools in China merged with the Department of Fine Arts and Music of the Art Department of Shandong University in 1952 during the adjustment of the departments of the national colleges and universities to form the East China Art College, located in Sheqiao, Wuxi, Jiangsu. The merger was completed on December 8. Since then, this day has become the anniversary of Nanjing University of the Arts. In 1958, East China Art College moved to Nanjing and was located in Dingjiaqiao. In June of the same year, it was renamed Nanjing Art College. In 1959, it was named Nanjing University of the Arts, and the school system was changed to four years, thus finally completing the organizational system of our college. In 1967, it moved to No. 15 Huju North Road, Nanjing. After nearly a century of construction and development, Nanjing Academy of the Arts has grown strong through winds and rains, and has gone through the vicissitudes of life. Today, Nanyi has developed into an influential comprehensive higher art institution at home and abroad.
The college covers an area of more than 720 acres, with an existing school building area of 160,000 square meters. There are 6126 general undergraduate and junior college students, 49 doctoral students, 279 master students, more than 90 international students, 1935 adult students, and 482 attached middle school students. Currently, there are 8 secondary colleges including the Academy of Fine Arts, the School of Music, the School of Design, the School of Media, the School of Popular Music, the Shangmei Academy of Performing Arts, the Higher Vocational Education (Adult) School, the School of Film and Television, and the School of Humanities, as well as the Department of Dance and Modern Education Technology. Center, affiliated secondary school. According to the professional catalog issued by the Ministry of Education, the college has 22 undergraduate majors, including fine arts, painting, sculpture, art design, art design, industrial design, costume design and engineering, animation, photography, musicology, music performance, and composition And composition technology theory, dance choreography, choreography, performance, drama, film and television literature, art education, public service management, recording art, broadcasting and hosting art, radio and television choreography, drama, film and television art design, and 56 professional directions, 8 from junior college There are 24 majors of various specialties (including adult education). It has doctoral degrees in art, fine arts, and music, and 8 master's degrees. It is a unit for university teachers to study for a master's degree, apply for a master's degree with equivalent academic qualifications, and grant a master's degree in fine arts. Music performance, art design, painting, composition and composition technology theory 4 Jiangsu Province brand majors and specialty majors. Fine arts and music are the key disciplines of Jiangsu Province, and fine arts is the cultivation point for the construction of national key disciplines. There are more than 900 faculty members, 602 full-time teachers, 249 professors and associate professors, 16 doctoral supervisors, 57 master supervisors, and more than 30 domestic and foreign visiting professors and part-time professors. The Art Research Institute of our college has a fine arts archeology research center, a musicology research institute, an art education research institute, an art science research institute, and an experimental orchestra, a youth dance troupe and other performance institutions. "Music and Performance" and "Art and Design" are academic publications issued nationwide, among which "Art and Design" is the "National Chinese Core Journal".
Since the reform and opening up, the college has firmly grasped development opportunities, adhered to the strategy of moderately advanced development of education, and closely integrated "connotation construction" and "extensive development". Expanding outreach, actively exploring various forms of school-running mechanisms, and forming a variety of school-running models such as state-owned public-run, Sino-foreign cooperation, school-enterprise cooperation, and a multi-level talent training system from technical secondary school to doctoral degree. Taking the reform of the credit system as the starting point and improving the quality of teaching as the foundation, the college continuously promotes the reform of education and teaching, and comprehensively implements quality education. , Cultivating artistic talents with both morality and art”. In 2003, it was the first batch to pass the evaluation of the undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education and was awarded an excellent grade.
Outstanding people, brilliant and beautiful. In this historic art palace, a large number of cultural celebrities and famous artists and educators in modern history have emerged: Liu Haisu, Zang Yunyuan, Chen Zhifo, Xie Haiyan, Yu Jianhua, Liu Ruli, Wen Zhaotong, Chen Dayu, Huang Youkui, Cheng Wujia, Gan Tao, Sheng Xue, Jiang Xi... They have made outstanding contributions to the rise of Chinese art education and laid a solid foundation for the development of the Nanjing Art Institute today. Today, Nanjing Academy of the Arts draws on the cultural nourishment of the ancient capitals of the Six Dynasties, gained the strength of Jiangsu's economic province, united and forge ahead, and has become a comprehensive higher art institution with complete disciplines, diverse levels of education, strong teachers, and advanced teaching facilities.