ELIA welcomes new member: Académie des Beaux-Arts de Tournai

ELIA extends a warm welcome to our newest member, Académie des Beaux-Arts de Tournai

Founded in 1756, by the municipality of Tournai, Académie des Beaux-Arts de Tournai (Academy of Fine Arts, Tournai) was the answer to a need for qualified artistic workers for the Royal and Imperial manufacture of porcelain that had just been established there.

Today, the academy is an ESA (Art College) of the longer type, which adheres to the framework of European harmonisation of higher education. It has adopted the ECTS system (European Credit Transfer System) which allows all students to pursue part of their studies in another country of the European Community. The academy offers courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees in several areas of study. Programmes offered include, Interior Architecture, Digital arts, Comics, Drawing, Illustration, Advertising and Textile Design.

In each program, the courses are developed through dialogue between all the educational participants: the teachers of artistic classes, theoretical classes and technical classes. Find out more.

Teaching and Learning

The artistic classes form the “hard core” of the course and are given in workshops, places for experimentation and creation. Among these classes, there is the main class which carries the name of the programme.

The theoretical classes allow the student to acquire a set of specific references that go beyond the strict field of plastic arts. These classes do not aim exclusively to transmit knowledge, but to communicate curiosity and a desire for knowledge. This knowledge is also plastic. As with the artistic classes, the teacher’s guide the students through the intricacies of information overload. They stimulate their sense of critique, their ability to analyse and summarise.

The technical and technological classes are fundamental. They make it possible to study questions linked to the materialisation and the realisation of all artistic projects.

We wish Académie des Beaux-Arts de Tournai all the best as they grow their international network with ELIA.