Faculty of Visual Arts and Design - UNAGE Iasi

Founded in 1860 as a School of Fine Arts, following the Western model, the first higher level institution in Romanian art education has functioned continuously until today, despite the times during communism, when the Academy of Fine Arts Iasi (with the title adopted in 1931) it was transformed into the Faculty of Drawing (1950), and then into the Faculty of Fine Arts (1978). Since 2012, it has been called the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design within the George Enescu National University of Arts in Iași.

The Faculty of Visual Arts and Design belongs to the ensemble of three integrated faculties within the National University of Arts "George Enescu", public institution of higher artistic education, part of the national education system, accredited under the law, with the qualification "High degree of confidence", classified as a university of education and scientific research. The Faculty of Visual Arts and Design has the mission to train specialists plastic artists or theorists to participate creatively in the contemporary cultural life and in the circulation of the values of the Romanian and universal art. The Faculty of Visual Arts and Design is in category A in the national ranking. It is the only higher education institution in Romania in the top of QS Global World Ranking 2018 - Art and Design. For more information, visit the faculty page on the UNAGE Iași website www.arteiasi.ro.

Decrees establishing the School of Fine Arts and the Conservatory of Music and Declamation, issued in October 1860 by the Chancellery of the Prince of the United Principalities, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, certifying the establishment of the first forms of higher artistic education in Romania