Guangxi Art College is located in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is one of the six comprehensive undergraduate art colleges in China. In 212, it became a university established by the Chinese people, the Ministry of Culture and the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
The school's predecessor was the "Guangxi Provincial Capital National Basic School Art Teacher Training Course" initiated by the famous musician Man Qianzi, the outstanding modern painter and art educator Xu Beihong and the famous composer and music educator Wu Bochao in Guilin in 1938. In the history of running a school for more than 7 years, a group of well-known artists and art educators at home and abroad, such as Man Qianzi, Wu Bochao, Yang Taiyang, Chen Yanqiao, Chen Liang, Huang Dufeng, Zhu Peijun, Lu Huabai and Li Zhishu, have worked hard in the school for a long time. They taught and studied, and Hong Wen encouraged them to teach, which laid a good foundation for the development of the school and accumulated a profound cultural heritage.
The school consists of Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design, Guilin Institute of Chinese Painting, Conservatory of Music, School of Dance, School of Humanities, School of Film and Television and Media, Department of Ethnic Arts, School of Architectural Arts, School of Plastic Arts, Department of Orchestration, School of International Education, School of Fine Arts Education, School of Music Education, Vocational and Technical College/Continuing Education College, Lijiang School of Painting, Department of Teaching and Research of Ideological and Political Theory, and Public School. There are 19 teaching units, an art research institute, and Nanning Nanhu Campus, Xiangsihu Campus, West Campus and Guilin Campus, covering an area of more than 7 mu. At present, there are six master's authorization points for first-level disciplines, namely, art theory, music and dance, drama and film, fine arts, design and journalism and communication, 37 master's authorization points for two disciplines, 3 professional degree authorization points, 33 undergraduate majors, 7 undergraduate majors and 16 higher vocational majors, forming a relatively complete higher art education system.
The school enrolls students from all over the country. At present, the school has more than 15, full-time undergraduate students, master students and international students, and more than 1, teaching and administrative staff. All disciplines and specialties have well-known outstanding teachers, artists, experts and scholars in the whole region and even the whole country. The school insists on talent training as the fundamental task, actively deepens the reform of education and teaching, and constantly improves the quality of education and teaching. It has successively obtained a number of teaching achievements, such as national specialty, national top-quality courses, national talent training mode innovation experimental zone, national experimental teaching demonstration center, national teaching team, key disciplines, high-quality majors, top-quality courses and key research bases of humanities and social sciences in colleges and universities in the autonomous region. In 26, the school won the excellent grade in the undergraduate education teaching evaluation of the Ministry of Education. In 28, it was approved by the Ministry of Education, and became an institution of higher learning with the qualification of recommending excellent fresh graduates to study for master's degree without examination. In 29, it was approved to become a professional degree training unit for Master of Arts (MFA); In 212, it was approved as a university with characteristics and advantages in Guangxi; In 213, it was approved as a doctoral program in Guangxi to build a university, and the quality of education and teaching in the school has improved steadily.
The school attaches great importance to scientific research and creation. Since 21, the school has undertaken more than 3 scientific research projects at or above the provincial and ministerial level, more than 3 other scientific research and creation projects, and obtained 11 patents. Teachers and students have won nearly 7 awards at home and abroad in the Golden Bell Award, Wenhua Award, Peacock Award and Peach Blossom Cup, as well as in national art exhibitions, national college students' art exhibitions, national college students' advertising art competitions, China Campus Drama Festival and CCTV National TV Dance Competition. "Lijiang Painting School" with school art teachers as the main body has developed into a cultural brand going global, which has made important contributions to expanding the influence and popularity of Guangxi. The "China-ASEAN Music Week" sponsored by the school has become one of the three platforms for the creation of "new music" in China, and has become an influential and well-known international music activity in China.
The school has actively carried out educational cooperation and cultural exchanges with foreign countries, and has successively carried out artistic exchanges and educational cooperation with more than 3 foreign universities and art groups, including Julia Conservatory of Music in the United States, University of Greendale in the United Kingdom, Repin Academy of Fine Arts in Russia and nanyang academy of fine arts. In May 212, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs established the "China-ASEAN Art Talent Training Center" in our school, which created a new situation for our school to further strengthen cultural and artistic exchanges with ASEAN countries.
in the face of the new pattern of economic, social and cultural development of the country and Guangxi, the school adheres to the connotative development road with optimizing the structure and improving the quality as the core, and fully implements the six strategies of "building a school with quality, strengthening the school with talents, developing the school with disciplines, providing excellent schools with characteristics, leading by culture and internationalizing education", and strives to become a comprehensive art university with leading domestic and international influence and distinctive characteristics in 22.