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Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture
The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture was the French royal institution for teaching and regulating painting and sculpture from 1648 until its abolition in 1793.
Akademie der Künste
The Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) is a membership society of artists in Berlin, founded in 1696 by Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg and one of Europe's oldest cultural institutions.
Atelier
Atelier: French word for an artist's workshop or studio, also the small-group studio school where a master painter trains dedicated students, historically alongside guilds and academies.
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), the professional undergraduate degree in visual and performing arts, emphasizing intensive studio practice over the broader Bachelor of Arts; typically 120 credits, portfolio admission, senior exhibition, and the pathway to the MFA.
Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste
The Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, or Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, is a Munich academy of the arts founded by the Free State of Bavaria in 1948.
California Institute of the Arts
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), a private arts university in Valencia, California, founded 1961 by Walt and Roy Disney via merger of Chouinard Art Institute and LA Conservatory of Music; opened 1970; six schools, WSCUC-accredited, tuition $62,954/year (2026-27).
Central Saint Martins
Central Saint Martins, a college of the University of the Arts London, was formed in 1989 and is known for its world-class fashion and design programs.
French Academy in Rome
The French Academy in Rome, known as the Villa Médicis, is a French state institution founded by Louis XIV in 1666 that hosts artists in residence in Rome.
Imperial Academy of Arts (Императорская Академия художеств)
Imperial Academy of Arts (Императорская Академия художеств), founded in St Petersburg in 1757 as the Academy of Three Noble Arts by Shuvalov and Lomonosov, chartered by Catherine II in 1764; Russia's only higher art school until the early 20th century, abolished 1918.
Indochina School of Fine Arts
The Indochina School of Fine Arts was an art academy founded in Hanoi in 1925 under the French painter Victor Tardieu, which trained Vietnam's first modern artists until 1945.
Kala Bhavana
Kala Bhavana, the Institute of Fine Arts, is the fine arts faculty of Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan, West Bengal, founded by Rabindranath Tagore in 1919.
Medu Art Ensemble
Medu Art Ensemble, meaning "roots" in SePedi, was a collective of exiled South African cultural workers in Gaborone, Botswana, producing anti-apartheid posters, music, and theater until 1985.
Namikawa Yasuyuki workshop
The Namikawa Yasuyuki workshop, the Kyoto Higashiyama residence and studio where cloisonné artist Namikawa Yasuyuki ran his wired-cloisonné business, is now the Namikawa Cloisonné Museum of Kyoto.
National Institute of Design
National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad: India's national design school founded September 1961 from the Eames India Report, an Institution of National Importance under the NID Act 2014, with campuses in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, and Bengaluru.
New Bauhaus
The New Bauhaus was an American design school founded in Chicago in 1937 by former Bauhaus master László Moholy-Nagy to carry the Bauhaus program to the United States.
Parsons School of Design
Parsons School of Design, known as Parsons, is a private art and design college in New York City, part of The New School. Founded in 1896 as the Chase School, renamed Parsons in 1941, it pioneered fashion, graphic, and interior design study and enrolls over 5,700 students.
Qing imperial painting academy
The Qing imperial painting academy was the Qing court's painting establishment, housed in the Ruyi Guan of the Imperial Workshops under the Kangxi through Qianlong emperors.
Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), private art and design college and museum in Providence, RI, founded 1877 by women led by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf; about 2,577 students, 40+ degree programs, president Crystal Williams since 2022.
Royal Academy of Arts
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA), founded in London in 1768 under George III with Joshua Reynolds as first president, is an independent artist-led gallery, art school, and members' institution at Burlington House, home of the annual Summer Exhibition held since 1769 and the free Royal Academy Schools.
San Francisco Art Institute
The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a fine arts school in San Francisco, founded in 1871, the West Coast's oldest fine art school, and closed permanently in July 2022.
School of Visual Arts
School of Visual Arts (SVA) is a private for-profit art and design college in Manhattan, founded in 1947 as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and renamed in 1956; about 3,244 undergraduates, 93% acceptance, Middle States accredited, top-20 QS art and design.
Sir J. J. School of Art
Sir J. J. School of Art, now Sir J. J. School of Art, Architecture and Design, is a government art school in Mumbai founded in 1857 with a donation from Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy.
Studio
Studio: the workspace of artists, designers, and architects, from the medieval workshop and master's atelier through the academies to studio-laboratories, crit-based pedagogy, and today's subsidized studio spaces.
The Factory
The Factory, also known as Andy Warhol's Factory, was Andy Warhol's New York City studio, occupying four Manhattan sites between 1963 and 1987 and named for its assembly-line production methods.
Vkhutemas
Vkhutemas was a Soviet state school of art, architecture, and design in Moscow, operating from 1920 to 1930 and regarded alongside the Bauhaus as a foundation of modern design.