Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts (SIVA) (上海视觉艺术学院) is a public university in

Songjiang District Songjiang is a suburban district (formerly a county) of Shanghai. It has a land area of and a population of 1,582,398 (2010). Owing to a long history, Songjiang is known as the cultural root of Shanghai. Songjiang Town, the urban center of the ...

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, China. SIVA was established in September 2005 with the approval of the Ministry of Education. The school was founded as an art and design school with the efforts by

Fudan University Fudan University () is a national public research university in Shanghai, China. Fudan is a member of the C9 League, Project 985, Project 211, and the Double First Class University identified by the Ministry of Education of China. It is als ...

, Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group, Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group, Shanghai Jingwen Investment Ltd., Shanghai Jingwen Properties Group, Shanghai Shenjiao Investment Co., Shanghai World Expo Group, Shanghai Cred Real Estate Stock Co., Emperor Entertainment Group Ltd, The 9 Ltd and Shanda Internet Development. The school had been loosely affiliated with Fudan University; in 2013, the school became a completely independent institute, and is no longer affiliated with Fudan University.

Location

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, SIVA covers an area of nearly 1,000 mu with a total floor area of 120,000 square meters in Shanghai. The campus consists of academic buildings, information center, practice center, stadium and student cafeteria in place. It is adjacent to the six universities:

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; Shanghai University of Engineering Sciences;

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. SIVA shares teaching and living resources with Songjiang University Town for faculty and students.

Funding

State-owned funds account for over 90% of the total investment SIVA has received; the rest comes from social groups.

Academics

SIVA provides a teaching model focused upon professor studios and offers a complete credit system. The faculty is made up of full-time teachers, visiting professors and part-time teachers as well as honorary professors from home and abroad. SIVA has a developing international platform for working together with international experts on advanced art education. Guest lecturers and professors include actor

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, fresco artist Rainer Maria Latzke, '' Beowulf'' and '' Spider-Man'' movie animator Sing-Chong Foo, Japanese manga artist

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, the creator of the “ Peacock King”, and painters Carlos Morell Orlandis and

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Advisory board

The advisory board members include heads of schools of art, such as the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts,

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(Britain),

Rhode Island School of Design The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase the ...

(the United States), National College of Art (France), The Danish School of Art and Design, the

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, the

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(Australia), German University of the Arts, Helsinki Institute of Art and Design (Finland), the

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, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Musashino College of Art and Design (Japan).

Faculty staff

300 full-time teachers

Students

Registered full-time students in the institute approximately number 3,600.

Organization

SIVA includes six subordinate colleges: *Communication Design *Spatial and Industrial Design *Fashion Design *Fine Art *Digital Media *Media and Films

References

External links

Official website
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