Faculty of Fine Arts of Pontevedra

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Fine Arts Faculty of Pontevedra
Facultad de Bellas Artes de Pontevedra
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Faculty façade
TypePublic Faculty
Established1990
Parent institution
 University of Vigo
Affiliation Pontevedra Campus
Students700 [1]
Location
Pontevedra
,
Spain

42°25′54.3″N8°38′55.9″W / 42.431750°N 8.648861°W / 42.431750; -8.648861
CampusCity centre
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The Faculty of Fine Arts of Pontevedra is a university faculty founded in 1990 in the Spanish city of Pontevedra, based in the city centre, [2] in the former Maestranza and old neoclassical barracks of Saint Ferdinand. [3]

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The faculty belongs to the Pontevedra Campus, integrated in the Galician University System and dependent on the University of Vigo. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Art. It is the only Faculty of Fine Arts in Galicia and northwestern Spain.

Location

The building is located at 2, Maestranza Street in Pontevedra.

History

In the eighties of the 20th century, several art teachers led by Professor José Roselló Valle, as well as politicians of the time, such as the person in charge of culture of the Provincial Council of Pontevedra, Adriano Marques, fought and made multiple steps and efforts so that the city would have a Faculty of Fine Arts in the project for the creation of the future university, which was to be called University of Southern Galicia. [4]

The Faculty of Fine Arts of Pontevedra was created in 1990 by Decree 416/1990, of 31 July, of the Ministry of Education and University Planning, in its article 14. [5] The first programme was validated on 9 July 1990 and the programme of the University of Salamanca was adopted for the Faculty of Pontevedra, published for the first and second cycle of the curriculum in the Official State Bulletins of 20 July 1983 and 17 March 1987. [6]

For the first four years, the Faculty of Fine Arts was provisionally housed in the former Provincial Hospice in Sierra Street, with a certain precariousness in terms of material means and space. [7] [8] [9]

On 15 December 1994, the Faculty moved to its current location, the building of the former Saint Ferdinand Barracks, in the city centre, after a project to acquire and renovate the building: different departments of the Xunta de Galicia, the City Council of Pontevedra and the university provided the money to buy the building and the Provincial Council of Pontevedra financed the renovation work. [2] [10] According to the mayor at the time, Javier Cobián, the total project cost 2,000 million pesetas. [11]

From the beginning, there was a great interaction between the students of the faculty and the city of Pontevedra, with installations, performances and artworks in the streets. [12] [13]

The patron saint of the faculty is Saint Ero and the faculty celebrates his feast day in May. [14]

Programmes

The faculty awards the University Degree in Fine Arts. The centre also hosts the master's degree in Fashion Design and Creative Direction [15] and the PhD in Creation and Research in Contemporary Art. [16]

Facilities

The large building of the faculty is the former neoclassical Saint Ferdinand Barracks, designed by the architect Bonifacio Menéndez Conde, built between 1906 and 1909 and renovated in 1994 by the architect César Portela Fernández-Jardón to become the headquarters of the faculty and to house the Fine Arts studies.

The faculty has an exhibition room, the X Room, located at the entrance of the building. [17]

The faculty's library has 55 periodical titles and over 10,000 volumes and has 108 reading places. [18]

The faculty also has multi-purpose workshops, equipped with hand tools and specific machines (workshops for metal, wood, ceramics, plastic and other materials).

There is also an audiovisual laboratory, other laboratories for graphic techniques (intaglio) and photography and a computer room (for digital and 3D image processing and digital photographic processing).

Deans

So far the deans of the faculty have been: [2] [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Pontevedra, en el Top Five de las facultades de Bellas Artes de España". Pontevedra Viva (in Spanish). 3 June 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 "20 años desde que los pinceles sustituyeron a los fusiles". Pontevedra Viva (in Spanish). 15 December 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Belas Artes celebra su cuarto de siglo". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 31 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "Muere José Roselló, el profesor rebelde que luchó para que Pontevedra tuviese facultad de Bellas Artes". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 3 February 2022.
  5. ↑ "DECRETO 416/1990, de 31 de julio, por el que se crean centros y se concede autorización para implantar estudios conducentes a las titulaciones que se relacionan en el sistema universitario de Galicia". Diario Oficial de Galicia (in Spanish). 10 August 1990.
  6. ↑ "Resolución de 15 de abril de 1994, de la Universidad de Vigo, por la que se ordena la publicación de los planes de estudio conducentes a la obtención de los títulos de Licenciado en Derecho de la Facultad de Derecho de Orense, Licenciado en Geografía e Historia de la Facultad de Humanidades de Orense y Licenciado en Bellas Artes de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de Pontevedra y los planes de estudio de los primeros ciclos de las licenciaturas de Química y Biología de la Facultad de Ciencias de Vigo" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). 7 May 1994.
  7. ↑ "Bellas Artes celebra su cuarto de siglo con una jornada de puertas abiertas y múltiples actividades". Pontevedra Viva (in Spanish). 30 October 2015.
  8. ↑ "De cuartel militar a centro del arte". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 22 December 2014.
  9. ↑ González, Oscar (8 November 1994). "Los alumnos de Bellas Artes de Pontevedra, en huelga indefinida". El País (in Spanish).
  10. ↑ "Un cuartel que ahora es Facultad". Diario de Pontevedra (in Spanish). 13 November 2022.
  11. ↑ "Soy un pontevedrés que intentó hacer más cosas por su ciudad de las que le dejaron". Diario de Pontevedra (in Spanish). 3 February 2019.
  12. ↑ "Bellas Artes sigue dejando huella en la ciudad". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 23 October 2014.
  13. ↑ "La calle se libra de sustos". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 13 November 2009.
  14. ↑ "Belas Artes rinde su particular homenaje a San Ero". Diario de Pontevedra (in Spanish). 15 May 2008.
  15. ↑ "Un máster sustituirá los estudios del título propio en Deseño Téxtil e Moda". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 15 July 2016.
  16. ↑ "Marco Moreira y sus máquinas de dibujar". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 22 October 2022.
  17. ↑ "La Sala X de Bellas Artes acogerá la muestra surrealista 'Al cantar brilla'". Pontevedra Viva (in Spanish). 6 March 2021.
  18. ↑ "Elige tu sitio preferido de la ciudad para hincar los codos". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 4 May 2017.

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