Jilin Art Institute is the only comprehensive higher art college in Northeast China. The predecessor of the college was founded in 1946 as the Luxun Academy of Literature and Art of Northeastern University. In 1958, Jilin Art College was established. In 1978, it was renamed Jilin Art Institute. In 1993, it obtained the right to confer master's degrees. In 1995, it became one of the first colleges in Jilin Province with provincial key disciplines. In 2020, it became a high-level university with characteristics in Jilin Province. The college is located in a prosperous area in the city center with unique advantages. It has four campuses: performance, modeling, comprehensive, and urban. It has 13 teaching units including the Conservatory of Music, the Academy of Fine Arts, the Academy of Design, the Academy of Drama and Film, the Academy of Dance, the Academy of New Media, the Academy of Animation, the Academy of Art Education, the Academy of Art Management, the Academy of Popular Music, the Academy of Chinese Opera, the Changchun Film Academy, and the affiliated secondary vocational schools. There are 9,046 full-time students, including 1,275 master's students and 7,771 undergraduates. The school-running function of the college, "a cradle for cultivating talents, a base for inheriting culture, a source of artistic innovation, and a window for guiding aesthetics", is becoming increasingly prominent. The college upholds tradition, promotes advantages, follows the rules of higher education in the arts, actively implements the "Teaching Quality Improvement Project" and the "Innovative Art Talent Cultivation Project", and has established the concept of "project-driven teaching, scientific research deepening teaching, exhibitions and performances promoting teaching, and practice testing teaching", and strives to cultivate high-quality application-oriented and innovative art talents. At present, it has 39 undergraduate majors, and 15 majors including musicology, radio and television directing, painting, visual communication design, digital media art, music performance, performance, product design, environmental design, animation, dance performance, drama and film directing, sculpture, clothing and costume design, and arts and crafts are national first-class professional construction points, and 5 majors including broadcasting and hosting art, Chinese painting, composition and composition technology theory, fine arts, and photography are provincial first-class professional points; there are 4 national first-class courses and 7 provincial first-class courses including visual image design, landscape sketching, chamber music (folk music-Guzheng), and virtual simulation experiment of human anatomy for art. 5 provincial "Golden Courses" (including 1 Class A and 4 Class C), 1 provincial high-quality online open course, 12 provincial high-quality courses, 36 provincial excellent courses, 2 provincial innovation and entrepreneurship education reform demonstration courses, 2 provincial school-enterprise cooperation development project construction courses, 1 provincial university curriculum ideological and political teaching reform "Subject Education Demonstration Course" project, 3 provincial curriculum ideological and political demonstration (construction) projects; 1 national teaching achievement award, 27 provincial teaching achievement awards, 75 provincial education science outstanding achievements awards, 113 provincial higher education association outstanding higher education scientific research achievements awards, and 1 provincial higher education research base. There are 6 national scientific research and creation platforms, including the Winter Olympics Culture and Art Creation Center, the Ministry of Education Sino-Russian College Art Exchange Base, the Sino-Russian Art College Alliance, the Ministry of Education National General College Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Inheritance Base, the China Television Association Documentary Research Center and the Dynamic Image Visual Art Creation and Research Base; 17 provincial scientific research platforms, including 1 provincial social science key field research base, 3 provincial college humanities and social science key research bases, 2 provincial key laboratories, 3 provincial college engineering research centers, 2 provincial collaborative innovation centers, 1 Jilin characteristic new college think tank, 1 Jilin Opera Education Research Base, 2 provincial colleges Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Inheritance Base, 1 Jilin Intangible Cultural Heritage Research and Training Base, and 1 Jilin Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism Co-construction Research Center. The overall construction level of the college's art disciplines and majors is in a leading position in the province, and the number of national first-class majors, provincial first-class disciplines, and scientific research and creation platforms above the provincial level are all among the top in domestic local art colleges. The college has a strong faculty, with 824 faculty members, including 554 full-time teachers, 226 associate senior titles and above, including 12 second-level professors; more than 100 visiting professors and part-time professors from home and abroad. There is one expert enjoying the special government allowance of the State Council, one national outstanding teacher, one "leading talent in humanities and social sciences" of the Changbai Mountain Talent Project, one "young top talent" of the Baishan Talent Project, 11 people enjoying provincial government subsidies (experts with outstanding contributions in the province), 13 provincial top innovative talents, 4 Changbai Mountain skilled teachers, 3 provincial outstanding teachers, 4 provincial teaching teachers, and 10 Jilin Province Arts and Crafts Masters. There are 7 provincial outstanding teaching teams and 4 provincial innovation teams. Facing the needs of national, especially local, cultural development, the school has carried out scientific research and creation. Teachers and students have undertaken 60 national social science fund, national art fund and humanities and social science research projects of the Ministry of Education. Among them, the number of national art fund projects ranks among the top local art colleges in the country. The school designed and produced the mascot "Shuey Rhon Rhon" for the 2022 Beijing Paralympic Winter Games, which was highly praised by the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee and commended by the competent authorities. It has won three "Five One Project Awards" from the Central Propaganda Department, two gold medals and one theoretical review award from the China Golden Bell Awards for Music, the Outstanding Review Award at the China Golden Eagle TV Art Festival, one gold medal, one silver medal and three bronze medals at the National Art Exhibition, and the China Art Award. 1 bronze medal; 6 times won the China Drama Award for Outstanding Campus Plays and Short Dramas; won the "Top Ten" Chinese Documentary for 3 consecutive years; won the "Golden Monkey Award" for Chinese Animation 3 times; also won a series of awards in the IDEA International Industrial Design Competition, Cao Yu and Tian Han Drama Awards, "Taoli Cup" and "Lotus Cup" Dance Competitions, "The Voice of China", Wuzhen International Drama Festival, China University Students "Internet +" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, etc., won the second prize of national teaching achievements, Changbai Mountain Literature and Art Award, provincial teaching achievement award, provincial social science outstanding achievement award, Jilin Literature and Art Award, provincial press and publication award and more than 100 other provincial and above government awards. Today, the school's talent training is full of peaches and plums. Some of them have become excellent cultural and art managers, such as Dong Wei, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and former vice minister of the Ministry of Culture, Zhao Tiechun, vice president of the National Center for the Performing Arts, Yang Jingmao, former vice president of the National Center for the Performing Arts, Tang Yongbao, former president of the Xinghai Conservatory of Music, and Liu Shaoyong, director of the August 1st Film Studio; there are also outstanding alumni who have made remarkable achievements in the art fields they are engaged in, such as Liu Yunzhi, president of the Central Opera House, Zhao Cong, head of the China National Traditional Orchestra, Tang Jianping and Wang Danhong, famous composers, Wang Xiaoyan, vice chairman of the China Dancers Association and dancer, Wang Xiaoming and Jia Difei, famous painters, Jin Renshun, famous writer and chairman of the Jilin Writers Association, Hou Tianlai, Zhang Kaili, Xu Wenguang, Zhao Mingming, Yan Xuejing, Ding Haifeng, Wang Weizhi, Yang Tongshu, Zhang Xiaolong, the national anthem, Bi Mingxin, host of CCTV, Yuan Jingnan, lighting designer of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Liang Bo, champion of the Voice of China, and many main cast and crew members of the hit TV series "In the Name of the People" and "The World" including director Li Lu all graduated from Jilin Art Institute. The college actively serves the development of the society and regional economic and cultural undertakings. It organized and led the design of the Jilin Hall of the Great Hall of the People, the design and production of the Jilin floats for the 50th, 60th and 70th anniversaries of the National Day, the planning and design of the theme presentation plan and the production of the promotional film of the Jilin Pavilion of the Shanghai World Expo, and was responsible for the visual image design of the "Chinese Bridge" World University Chinese Competition, the 6th Asian Winter Games, the opening and closing ceremonies of the 12th China International Children's Film Festival, the 12th National Winter Games, etc. It hosted the Changchun International Piano Art Festival, Changchun International Sculpture Exhibition, Changchun International Ceramics Exhibition, National Art Fiber Exhibition, etc.; participated in major exhibitions such as the East Expo, Auto Expo, Agricultural Expo, International Film Festival, and International Animation Expo, and won wide praise and acclaim from all walks of life. The college actively carries out international exchanges and cooperation in art education, and has established friendly inter-school relations with 31 famous art colleges in more than 10 countries and regions such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Russia, Canada, Germany, South Korea, Japan, and Singapore. Approved by the Ministry of Education, the college has established two national-level Sino-foreign cultural exchange platforms: the Sino-Russian Art College Alliance and the Sino-Russian College Art Exchange Base, and has made its own contribution to Sino-foreign cultural exchange. At present, the college has carried out 2+2 and 3+1 student joint training programs with the University of York, Northumbria University, University of Wolverhampton, and University of Huddersfield in the UK, and a postgraduate joint training program with the City University of Macau. It has also carried out student exchanges with the Taiwan University of the Arts and the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan. Many international high-level artists have been invited to perform and work in our college, providing teachers and students with more learning and exchange opportunities, and enhancing the international reputation and influence of the college. The college focuses on prospering social and cultural life and creating a strong artistic atmosphere. Under the guidance of the concept of serving the society and opening up schools, the college continues to promote art into society, the public, and life. In recent years, the college has used the campus cultural and art festival for teachers and students as a carrier, combined with the two brand practice activities of "bringing elegant culture into the community" and "a hundred schools aesthetic education project", to hold more than a thousand concerts, design works exhibitions, painting exhibitions, drama sketches, dance specials and other activities every year, and received more than 100,000 people from the society for free, which has been warmly welcomed and widely praised by the society. It has been rated as "National Advanced Unit for College Students' Social Practice Activities" by the Central Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Education, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the All-China Students Federation many times. After more than 70 years of wind and rain and more than 70 years of glorious journey, today's Jilin Art Institute is adhering to the school motto of "erudition, truth-seeking, perfection and beauty", carrying forward the art education concept of "respecting artistic personality and improving social personality", and moving towards "a high-level art that is world-oriented, domestically first-class, distinctive and full of vitality".We are constantly moving towards the grand goal of becoming a "university of science and technology".
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