National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture
Name: NAOMA
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Name: Ukrainian Academy of Arts
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Name: Kyiv Institute of Plastic Arts
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Name: Kyiv Art Institute
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Name: Kyiv Institute of Proletarian Artistic Culture
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Name: All-Ukrainian Art Institute
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Name: Kyiv State Art Institute
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Status: operating
Website
Locations
Start: 1924
End: present day
Address: Kudryavsky Descent, 20
City: Kyiv
Country: Ukraine
History
Start: March 24, 1917
Events:
Meetings of all societies and associations of Kyiv artists, organized by the Temporary Organizational Committee of Artists, which raised the issue of creating a higher art school (initially based on the Kyiv Art School).
Start: spring 1917
End: early summer 1917
Events:
Work on creating a project for the academy of arts by a commission consisting of five representatives from the School Council, the Council of United Art Organizations of Kyiv, the Kyiv Society of Architects, and two from the School Students’ Committee.
Start: June 10, 1917
Events:
Presentation by the commission of the project for the future Kyiv Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture for consideration by the School Council, which reviewed the main principles of the draft statute and decided to distribute copies among the Council members and the artistic community for broad discussion and subsequent joint approval.
Start: late July 1917
Events:
Formation by Vasyl Krychevsky, Mykhailo Burachek, Oleksandr Murashko, and Mykhailo Zhuk of an independent organizational structure for the future academy, which was in no way to be connected with the Kyiv Art School, perceived by many members of the creative community as a synonym for the old Russian Imperial Academy of Arts. The organizational work was led by Hryhoriy Pavlutsky, the founding of the academy came under the care of the General Secretariat of Education and became an integral part of the Central Council’s large cultural project. Creation of a commission for the establishment of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts, led by Pavlutsky, which included invited members Fedor and Vasyl Krychevsky, Mykola Burachek, Mykhailo Zhuk, Oleksandr Murashko, Petro Kholodny, Maria Hrushevska, Mykola Bilyashivsky, Oleksandr Hrushevsky
Start: late August 1917
Events:
Determination by Hryhoriy Pavlutsky’s commission of the future professors of the academy, outlining preparatory theses for the draft statute.
Start: September 2, 1917
Events:
Election by the commission of the future professors of the academy. Elected were Boychuk, Burachek, Vasyl and Fedor Krychevsky, Murashko, Manevych, Narbut, and Zhuk. This list was to be reviewed by the General Secretariat of Public Education along with the draft statute of the academy.
Start: October 24, 1917
Events:
The first meeting of the Council of Professors of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts, at which a rector was elected. Fedor Krychevsky became the rector. The elected candidate still had to be approved by the General Secretariat of the Ukrainian Central Council.
Start: November 20, 1917
Events:
Approval of the draft law on the Ukrainian Academy of Arts by the General Secretariat of the Central Council.
Start: November 22, 1917
Events:
Opening of an exhibition of future academy teachers at the Pedagogical Museum (now Kyiv City Teachers’ House), marking the official opening of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts.
Start: December 5, 1917
Events:
Adoption of the law on the Ukrainian Academy of Arts by the Central Council.
Start: December 7, 1917
Events:
Official approval of Fedor Krychevsky as rector.
Start: 1918
End: 1920
Events:
Rectorship of Heorhiy Narbut.
Start: 1922
Events:
Reorganization of the academy into the Institute of Plastic Arts
Start: 1924
Events:
Merger of the Institute of Plastic Arts with the Ukrainian Architectural Institute (founded in 1918) and receiving the new name – Kyiv Art Institute.
Start: 1924
End: present day
Events:
Acquisition of the building at Voznesensky Descent, 20. Built in 1898. Architect Yevhen Yermakov. Permanent building of the academy (excluding the war years 1941–1945, when the academy was evacuated).
Start: 1924
End: 1930
Events:
Rectorship of Ivan Vrona.
Start: 1924
Events:
Change in the structure of the educational institution. Opening in the painting faculty of a department of artistic design of theater and cinema, as well as photography, the so-called “thea-cine-photo”; in the sculpture faculty – artistic woodwork and ceramics; a printing faculty appeared; a separate place was occupied by the art-pedagogical faculty, where artist-teachers and so-called artist-political educators for club work were trained.
Start: 1930
Events:
Renaming of the institution to Kyiv Institute of Proletarian Artistic Culture. Closure of the printing faculty. Reprofiling into the following faculties: artistic-propagandist; artistic design of proletarian life; sculptural design of socialist cities; communist artistic education.
Start: 1934
Events:
New name – All-Ukrainian Art Institute. Return to academic methods of education.
Start: 1939
Events:
New name – Kyiv State Art Institute.
Start: 1941
End: 1944
Events:
Merger of Kyiv and Kharkiv Art Institutes and their receiving the status of the Ukrainian branch of the Moscow Art Institute.
Start: 1941
End: 1943
Events:
The Ukrainian branch of the Moscow Art Institute was evacuated in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
Start: 1943
End: April 1944
Events:
The Ukrainian branch of the Moscow Art Institute was evacuated together with the All-Russian Academy of Arts in Zagorsk, Moscow Region, RSFSR.
Start: 1948
Events:
Restoration of the graphic faculty.
Start: 1958
Events:
Foundation of the art-pedagogical faculty.
Start: 1959
Events:
Foundation of the faculty of theory and history of art.
Start: 1965
Events:
Opening at the painting faculty of a workshop of monumental and theatrical-decorative art, and later – a department of painting technology and restoration.
Start: 1989
End: present day
Events:
Rectorship of Andriy Chebykin
Start: December 1992
Events:
Return to the original name — Ukrainian Academy of Arts.
Start: 1997
Events:
Name change to Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture.
Start: September 2000
End: present day
Events:
The educational institution bears the name National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture.
