SchChat - School | Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts

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Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts is one of the oldest art educational establishments in Ukraine. In year 1768 so called additional classes were established under Kharkiv Collegium (the predecessor of Kharkiv University). Among those classes there was a class of Drawing which as a matter of fact turned into the first state art school in the province. It is notable that it was formed just 11 years after foundation of S.-Petersburg Academy of Arts (1757) which was the only art educational establishment in the Russian Empire at that time. In the beginning of the 19th century the mission of art education was carried on by Kharkiv University after it was founded in 1805. The University and its founder V. Karazin made a major contribution to the outspread of art knowledge all over Slobozhanshchina, as well as in the south of the Russian Empire. In 1869 M. Raevskaya-Ivanova’s School of Drawing was established in Kharkiv. It was an independent educational institution which followed the art-and-industrial course due to the fact that Kharkiv had turned by then into a large industrial centre. About 900 students got their art education at that school during 27 years. Not only ordinary specialists who devoted their lives to applied arts were its graduates, but famous in future artists and architects studied there as well, for example, great Ukrainian landscape painters S. Vasylkyvskyi and M. Tkachenko, Academician of Architecture O. Beketov, active participants of the Itinerants’ exhibitions O. Vyezzhayev and K. Pervukhyn. The great Russian painter P. Konchalovsky got his basic art education at M. Raevskaya-Ivanova’s School of Drawing. Almost 1450 people study at three faculties, among them there are students from Ukraine and 12 foreign countries, including the CIS. Educational and methodological activity, creative work and research are carried out at 17 departments of the Academy by almost 200 lecturers, including 18 professors and 57 associate professors. 14 lecturers have honourary titles. Besides, the Academy has 4 lecturers who are members of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine, National Union of Artists, and Union of Designers of Ukraine. KSADA is the only higher educational establishment which prepares designers of manufactured goods, specialists in such spheres as graphic design, interior designing, design of decorative textiles and clothes, commercial and industrial advertising, corporate look, and packing. Our graduates successfully work at factories and in agencies in many segments of industry, in design organisations, business and industrial companies and associations, cultural and art organisations, higher schools, and colleges. The Academy is also designated as a centre of the art culture. It prepares highly qualified specialists who work in various spheres of artistry, namely easel painting, easel graphic works, book graphic works, poster, monumental-and-decorative painting and stained-glass window, architectural-and-decorative plastic arts and sculpture, and restoration of works of arts.