The Faculty of Arts and Design (formerly known as the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas or ENAP), is a college of art in

Xochimilco Xochimilco (; nci, Xōchimīlco, ) is a borough (''demarcación territorial'') of Mexico City. The borough is centered on the formerly independent city of Xochimilco, which was established on what was the southern shore of Lake Xochimilco in the ...

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

. The school is part the

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

, and is responsible for teaching painting, sculpture and graphic design, with undergraduate and graduate studies in San Carlos. It is regarded as one of the best art schools in Mexico.

History

The Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas was spun off from the

Academy of San Carlos The Academy of San Carlos ( es, Academia de San Carlos) is located at 22 Academia Street in just northeast of the main plaza of Mexico City. It was the first major art academy and the first art museum in the Americas. It was founded in 1781 as th ...

. The graduate program is held in San Carlos and is regarded as a research institute.

Notable alumni

Pedro Cervantes Pedro Miguel de Cervantes Salvadores (2 October 1933 – 26 October 2020) was a Mexican sculptor who exhibited in Mexico and abroad and created large monumental works for various locations in the country. Some of his work is noted for its use of ...

(born 1933), sculptor *

Mónica Mayer Mónica Mayer (born 1954) is a feminist Mexican artist, activist, and art critic whose work includes performance, digital graphics, drawing, photography and art theory. As a conceptual artist, curator, art critic and art theorist she has been e ...

(born 1954) *

Gabriel Orozco Gabriel Orozco (born April 27, 1962) is a Mexican artist. He gained his reputation in the early 1990s with his exploration of drawing, photography, sculpture and installation. In 1998, Francesco Bonami called Orozco "one of the most influenti ...

(born 1962), attended 1981 to 1984. *

Melchor Peredo Oscar Melchor Peredo y Garcia (born 6 January 1927) is a Mexican muralist and a representative of the social realist school of mural painting in Mexico. His murals depict historical scenes from Mexican history with an emphasis on revolutionary su ...

(born 1927) *

Puri Yáñez Puri Yáñez (born 1936, Cartagena, Spain) is a Spanish-born artist known for her surrealist oil paintings. Born in 1936 in Cartagena, Spain, and at the age of three she moved with her family to Mexico due to the fall of the Spanish Republic in ...

(born 1936), attended ENAP from 1956 to 1958.

References

External links

Official Website (Spanish)
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Art schools in Mexico National Autonomous University of Mexico {{Mexico-edu-stub

History

Notable alumni

See also

References

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