People's Republic of China (PRC) and the State Council officially approved the establishment of the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts. The faculty of the college is composed of professional teachers from the Department of Practical Fine Arts of East China Branch of Central Academy of Fine Arts, the Department of Practical Fine Arts of Central Academy of Fine Arts, and the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University, and a number of overseas experts. 1 65438+1October1day, the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts officially held its founding ceremony in Baiduizi, Mashenmiao, Beijing (this day was designated as a memorial day). At that time, the college had three departments: dyeing and weaving art, ceramic art and decoration design; At the same time, the Research Institute of the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts was established, with an art committee and a scientific committee. There are also theoretical research room, embroidery research room, clothing research room, furniture research room, Zhang Jingzuo clay sculpture studio and Tang Zibo dough sculpture studio.

1957 by the light industry.

Central Academy of Arts and Crafts moved to No.34, East Third Ring Road, Chaoyang District. In the same year, the college was led by the Ministry of Culture. Add interior decoration department.

1958 September

Founded the only comprehensive academic journal of arts and crafts at that time, Decoration Magazine.

1960 May 26th

Approved by Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and the Central Cultural and Educational Group, the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts and other 12 art schools were designated as key schools by the Ministry of Culture.

1977 resume the college entrance examination

Recruit the first batch of undergraduates, junior college students and graduate students after the Cultural Revolution.

1980

The "Design Center of Central Academy of Arts and Crafts" (1985 renamed as "Environmental Art Research and Design Center") was established to provide paid services for artistic design and creation by combining teaching and scientific research. In June of the same year, Decoration magazine was reissued and a series of arts and crafts were published. Set up the major of fashion design, and recruit junior college students of fashion design.

1982 enrolls undergraduate students in fashion design.

1983 established the Department of Arts and Crafts History and became the only doctoral program in China.

1984 Establish the Department of Industrial Design and the Department of Fashion Design.

1986 the craft building of the central academy of arts and crafts was completed, and a laboratory management office was established, with craft laboratories for carpentry, printing and dyeing, clothing, lacquer art, ceramics, printing, photography, mounting, computer and audio-visual education. Award funds such as hirayama ikuo Scholarship, Fenghua Scholarship, Zhang Guangyu Art Award and Wang Qianqian Creative Design Research Award have been established one after another, encouraging all teachers and students to climb the artistic peak.

1989 college has successively established friendly inter-school exchange relations with more than 20 colleges and universities, including Tokyo University of the Arts, Tama University of Fine Arts, art institute of chicago, Washington University Academy of Fine Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgia State University school of visual arts, Helsinki University of Art and Design, Paris National Institute of Decorative Arts, Stuttgart Institute of Plastic Arts, and Korea East Asia University. Li Zhengdao, a famous Chinese-American scientist, hirayama ikuo, a famous Japanese painter, Lehman, a famous German industrial designer, Ding Shaoguang, a famous Chinese-American painter and Tu Youyou, a famous Japanese industrial designer, were invited as honorary professors, and dozens of famous experts and scholars in the international and domestic art and design fields were also invited as visiting professors.

1June, 9989, according to the spirit of the merger and transfer of the State Council ministries and commissions, the college was transferred to Beijing.

1999 According to the reform of the national higher education management system and the adjustment of the layout structure, with the approval of the Ministry of Education,1999165438+1October 20th, the college was merged into Tsinghua University and renamed as Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts. The merging of the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts into Tsinghua University has had an important impact on the reform of China's higher education management system, which embodies the development trend of higher education in 2 1 century. After being merged into Tsinghua University, under the guidance of the strategic idea of building a first-class university and relying on the advantages of comprehensive disciplines, the teaching reform has been intensified, and the discipline construction, personnel training, scientific research, team building, facilities and environment have been significantly improved. The discipline structure is more reasonable, the advantages are further strengthened, the characteristics are more prominent, and remarkable achievements have been made.

In June 2000, 65438+ 10, the college organized a three-day seminar on discipline construction. Established the direction of the future development of the college "to maintain the advantages of the design art discipline and accelerate the development of the art discipline". In the same year, the college was awarded a master's degree in fine arts. In 2003, he was awarded a doctorate in fine arts.

In 2002, "Design Art" was rated as a national key discipline in colleges and universities by the Ministry of Education. In 2008, the first-class discipline of "Art" was rated as the key discipline in Beijing.

In 2003, the college set up a postdoctoral research station of art.

In 2004, in the evaluation of the overall level of the first-level disciplines in national colleges and universities, the comprehensive performance of art ranked first.

In 2005, it began to recruit master students in art. On September 28th, 2005, the Academy of Fine Arts moved into the new teaching building in Tsinghua University, with a building area of 62,000 square meters, which greatly improved the teaching and research conditions of the Academy of Fine Arts. The average teaching resources of the Academy of Fine Arts occupied an advantage among similar universities in China, providing an important guarantee for the Academy to train top-notch talents with high quality. At the same time, the college's moving in has also added a strong humanistic atmosphere and artistic atmosphere to Tsinghua campus, which has greatly promoted students' artistic accomplishment.

In 2006, the first batch increased the right to award doctoral degrees in the first-level discipline of art.

In 2008, the first-class discipline of "Art" was rated as the key discipline in Beijing by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, and the Experimental Teaching Center of Art and Design was rated as the experimental teaching demonstration center in Beijing.