Art Academy of Latvia

The Art Academy of Latvia (Latvian: Latvijas Mākslas akadēmija) is an institution of higher education and scientific research in art, located in Riga, Latvia. The neo-Gothic brick building is located on Krišjānis Valdemārs Street, next to the National Museum of Art.^[1][2]

Art Academy of Latvia

Latvijas Mākslas akadēmija
Established	1919
Rector	Kristaps Zariņš
Address	O.Kalpaka bulvāris 13 LV - 1050 , Riga , Latvia
Website	http://www.lma.lv

Building on Krišjānis Valdemārs Street.

In autumn 2021, the LMA together with the University of Lapland in Finland plan to enrol students in the two-year international Master's programme "Service Design Strategies and Innovation". The study process will take place internationally both in Kuldīga and Rovaniemi, Finland.^[3]

Organization

Faculties

The Academy has 5 faculties:^[4]

• Faculty of Visual Arts (2D)

• Department of Painting
• Department of Graphic Art
• Department of Textile Art
• Department of Drawing

• Faculty of Visual Plastic Arts (3D)

• Department of Sculpture
• Department of Ceramics
• Department of Glass Art

• Faculty of Design

• Department of Functional Design
• Department of Environmental Art
• Department of Metal Design
• Department of Fashion Design

• Faculty of Audio-Visual Media Art

• Department of Visual Communication
• Department "Motion. Image. Sound"
• Department of Stage Design

• Faculty of Art History

• Department of Art History and Theory
• Department of Restoration
• Department of Humanities

Latgale Branch

The Academy has a branch in Latgale located in Rēzekne.

Notable alumni

• Arturs Akopjans – figurative and abstract artist
• Ansis Artums – landscape painter
• Lidija Auza – assemblage and abstract artist
• Biruta Baumane – 2002 winner of the Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature, the Arts and Science
• Anšlavs Eglītis – novelist and author of short stories
• Sandra Kalniete – Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Commissioner and Member of the European Parliament
• Gunārs Lūsis – graphic designer responsible with Jānis Strupulis for the design of coinage of the post-Soviet edition of the lat
• Kārlis Padegs – expressionist painter
• Ināra Tetereva – philanthropist behind the Boris and Ināra Teterev fund, a Latvian patron of the arts
• Ēvī Upeniece – sculptor

Gallery

• 
  Graduation photo of the Landscape Workshop in 1942. Seated in the middle of the front row is Professor Vilhelms Purvītis. To the left of him is Mārtiņš Krūmiņš.
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  1995 stamp.
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  Sculpture art outside the Academy.
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  Dainas Skadmane's art installation "Vēja egle" next to the Art Academy of Latvia, Riga 2015.

External links

• "Art Academy of Latvia site". Archived from the original on 2015-05-26. Retrieved 2017-11-17.

References

1. "OUR STORY". Archived from the original on 2014-02-26. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
2. Lana Kazlauskiene (27 August 2013). "Mākslas potenciāls Kuldīgā" (in Latvian). Diena (laikraksts). Retrieved 2015-04-16.
3. "Māksla / Diena". www.diena.lv. Retrieved 2023-08-17.
4. "Latvijas Mākslas akadēmija: Faculties". Archived from the original on 2015-05-26. Retrieved 2017-11-17.

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