New member: ELIA welcomes Beaux-Arts de Paris

We are delighted to welcome Beaux-Arts de Paris. The School is a place of artistic instruction and experimentation, exhibitions and conservation of historical and contemporary collections, as well as a publishing house. Heir to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, founded in the 17th century by Louis XIV, Beaux-Arts de Paris is a public institution under the responsibility of the French Ministry of Culture.

Its first mission is to educate and train students planning to devote themselves to high-level artistic creation. Beaux-Arts de Paris occupies an essential place on the world stage of art and culture. In accordance with the educational principles that have always prevailed in the School, the course is studio-based under the guidance of renowned artists and is supplemented by a range of theoretical and technical teaching. It provides students with the fundamental elements they need to develop and sustain their personal artistic undertakings, and a full understanding of what is at issue in making art today.

The Beaux-arts de Paris has a wide range of departments; Artistic Practice, Technical Skills, Printing and Multiples, Material/Space, Drawing, Theoretical Study, and Language, offering courses open to the international scene. The diversity and quality of its partners abroad, among which are the best institutions of higher artistic education, allow it to offer its students a wide range of courses and experiences abroad: study trips, workshops, exhibitions, etc.

Beaux-Arts de Paris is a member of Université Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL), a community of 25 prestigious Parisian educational institutions.

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