Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts

The Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts is a higher art education institution with a history of about 100 years. It was founded in 1921 as the Higher Art School of Kharkiv and is one of the oldest art schools in Ukraine and the oldest in Eastern Ukraine. The academy trains bachelors, masters and doctors of philosophy and arts across 35 programs in four specialties, organized into three faculties and 16 departments. Its teaching covers painting, graphics, sculpture, restoration, design, architecture, audiovisual art and media technologies. It also runs the Little Academy of Design and Arts, which invites schoolchildren to take part in its activities.