吉林艺术学院萌生于1946年创办的东北大学鲁迅文艺学院。1948年东北大学成立音乐科，后东北大学更名为东北师范大学，音乐科改为音乐系。1958年在东北师范大学音乐系基础上，组建吉林艺术专科学校。此后，陆续合并了吉林省文化干部学校、吉林省艺术学校、吉林省歌舞剧院附设的音乐舞蹈学校、吉林市艺术学校、长春电影制片厂附属长春电影学院等五所各具特色的艺术院校，形成了培养多种艺术人才的综合性办学格局。1978年升格为大学，改称吉林艺术学院。2000年吉林省戏曲学校并入吉林艺术学院。

学院身处长春市得天独厚的城市中心繁华地带，拥有表演、造型、综合、城市艺术四个校区，设有音乐学院、美术学院、设计学院、戏剧影视学院、舞蹈学院、新媒体学院、动漫学院、艺术教育学院、艺术管理学院、流行音乐学院、戏曲学院、城市艺术学院等13个本科教学单位。拥有全日制在校生8178人，其中本科生7295人，专科生53人，硕士研究生830人。学院“培养人才的摇篮，传承文化的基地，艺术创新的源泉、引导审美的窗口”的办学功能日益彰显。

学院秉承传统，弘扬优势，坚持以独具特色的“实践性教学体系”为主轴，以“教学质量提升工程”和“创新型艺术人才培育工程”为两翼，不断完善“项目带动教学，科研深化教学，展演促进教学，实践检验教学”的教学机制，努力培养高素质艺术人才。目前学院拥有41个本科专业，基本涵盖了普通高等学校专业目录内的各个艺术类专业，其中音乐学、艺术设计、表演专业为国家级特色专业，绘画、音乐表演、视觉传达设计、表演为吉林省品牌专业，播音与主持艺术等6个专业为省级特色专业；12门省级精品课程、36门省级优秀课程；4个省级实验教学示范中心；3个省级人才培养模式创新实验区，3个省级大学生校外教育实践基地，1个省级吉剧人才培养基地。学院拥有音乐与舞蹈学、戏剧与影视学、美术学、设计学4个硕士学位授权一级学科，均为吉林省优势特色重点学科，其中音乐与舞蹈学、设计学为吉林省重中之重学科；拥有艺术、风景园林、新闻与传播3个专业硕士点，1个国家级基地（中俄高校艺术交流基地），1个吉林省社会科学重点领域研究基地（吉林省艺术研究中心），2个吉林省高校人文社科重点研究基地（吉林省设计艺术研究中心、吉林省艺术理论研究中心），1个吉林省重点实验室（数字媒体与动画技术重点实验室），2个吉林省重大需求协同创新中心（长白山文化产业与艺术创作协同创新中心、“互联网+”下的艺术创意与设计服务协同创新中心），1个吉林省工程研究中心（吉林省3D艺术实验工程研究中心）。学院艺术类学科专业整体建设水平在省内居领先地位，国家级特色专业数、省级重中之重学科数均位居国内同类艺术院校前列。

学院师资力量雄厚，现有教职员工659人，其中专任教师481人，副教授以上教师207人，聘有国内外客座教授、兼职教授100余人。在这些教师中有3人为国务院特殊津贴获得者，3人为省高级专家，3人为吉林省拔尖创新人才，6人为长白山技能名师，8人为省有突出贡献的中青年专业技术人才，5人为省级教学名师，5个省级优秀教学团队，4个省级创新团队，他们在为学院培养人才的同时，先后获得了一大批国家和省级艺术大奖：两次获得中宣部“五个一工程奖”，获中国音乐界最高奖——金钟奖金奖、全国美展金奖、桃李杯舞蹈大赛金奖，6次获中国戏剧奖（小品小戏奖4次，校园戏剧奖2次），首届“中国好声音”冠军，中国油画展艺术奖第一名、中国动画金猴奖、CCTV服装大赛金奖、国际拉赫玛尼诺夫大赛最佳歌剧演唱奖，获省级政府奖励34项（吉林省教学成果奖、长白山文艺奖、吉林省社科优秀成果奖等）。

学院历史文化底蕴深厚，在这悠久的历史艺术殿堂中，有一大批著名的艺术家、教育家工作生活在这里：董清才、王恩显、吕金藻、姚涌、尚德义、甘柏林、韩冈觉、刘尚焜、徐光荣、王庆淮、潘素、靳之林、王丙召、孙天牧、李守仁、胡悌麟、英若识、李巍、傅植桂、周仲元、王福龄、仲佩茹、陈鸿英、徐风、杨村夫、郭溥澜等，他们为中国艺术教育的发展做出了卓越的贡献。

建院以来，学院为国家培养了众多优秀的艺术家和知名学者，其中代表性的有中国国家交响乐团首席刘云志、著名作曲家唐建平、中央民族乐团琵琶首席赵聪、中国青年交响乐团首席大提琴董瑶；著名画家贾涤非、“亚洲博鳌论坛”整体视觉设计者张梦、舞蹈家王晓燕，中央电视台著名主持人毕铭鑫，著名青年作家金仁顺，著名影视演员张凯丽、侯天来、丁海峰、闫学晶、杨童舒、张晓龙、王韦智等，还有一批文化与艺术事业的管理者，如文化部副部长董伟、国家大剧院副院长杨静茂、星海音乐学院院长唐永葆等，他们为繁荣当代文化艺术事业做出了卓越贡献。

学院积极开展国际间的艺术教育交流与合作，先后与美国、英国、俄罗斯、加拿大、德国、韩国、日本、新加坡、台湾地区等10余个国家和地区的23所著名艺术院校建立了友好校际关系，连续举办教育部俄罗斯艺术大师班、长春国际钢琴艺术节、长春国际陶艺作品展，被教育部确定我院为全国唯一的中俄高校艺术交流基地，并于2012年牵头成立了中俄艺术高校联盟。目前学院已与英国约克大学、诺森比亚大学开展了2+2、3+1的学生联合培养项目，并邀请众多的国际高水平艺术家来我院演出、工作，为学院师生提供了更多的学习与交流机会，进一步拓宽了学院艺术教育的视野，提升了学院的国际知名度和影响力。

学院积极主动服务社会和地区经济文化事业的发展。组织牵头人民大会堂吉林厅设计、国庆五十周年和六十周年吉林彩车设计制作，上海世博会吉林馆主题陈述方案策划与设计和宣传片制作；承办“汉语桥”世界大学生中文比赛、第六届亚洲冬季运动会、第十二届中国国际儿童电影节开闭幕式、全国第十二届冬运会的视觉形象设计，中国长春国际钢琴艺术节、中国长春国际雕塑展、全国艺术纤维展等；参与东博会、汽博会、农博会、国际电影节、国际动漫节等所有重大展会，在社会上取得了良好的反响，赢得了社会各界的广泛赞誉和好评。学院注重繁荣社会文化生活，营造浓厚的艺术氛围。学院在服务社会、开放办学的理念指导下，不断推动艺术走进社会、走进大众、走进生活。尤其是近些年来，学院以学院艺术节和大学生校园文化艺术节为载体，结合“高雅文化进社区”和“百校美育工程”两项品牌社会实践活动，每年不间断地举办音乐会、设计作品展、绘画展、话剧小品、舞蹈专场等活动近千余场，免费接待社会群众5万余人次，受到了社会群众的热烈欢迎和广泛赞誉。其中的“百校美育工程”活动，已经连续开展了近20年，范围广及长春、吉林、通化、辽源、四平、白城、松原、白山、伊通等十几个市、县。因此，多次被中宣部、教育部、团中央、全国学联评为“全国大学生社会实践活动先进单位”。

七十年的栉风沐雨，七十年的辉煌征程，今天的吉林艺术学院正秉承“博学、求真、至善、尽美”的校训，发扬“尊重艺术个性，完善社会人格”的艺术教育理念，朝着“充满生机活力、特色鲜明、面向世界、国内一流的高水平综合性艺术大学”的宏伟目标不断迈进。

An introduction of Jilin University of Arts

The predecessor of Jilin University of Arts is the Department of Music of Luxun Literature and Art School in Northeast University, founded in 1946. In 1958, it was rebuilt as an independent organizational system, known as the Jilin Art Diploma School. Later it merged five art schools including Jilin Provincial Cultural Official School, Jilin Provincial Art School, Music and Dance School affiliated by Jilin Provincial Theater, Jilin Municipal Art School, Changchun Movie School affiliated by Changchun Movie Producing Factory, and thus formed its comprehensive teaching framework that nurture various art talents. In 1978, it was finally escalated to the University of Undergraduate Education. It was through this process that its dominant place in the art education of the northeast region was established.

Jilin University of Arts is blessed by notable advantages. Situated in the center of Changchun City, a prosperous zone, it is composed of four campuses, together with twelve schools, School of Music, School of Fine Arts, School of Design, School of Stage and Screen Arts, School of Dance, School of New Media, School of Animation, School of Art Education, School of Cultural Art Management, School of Pop Music, School of Urban Arts, etc. It has 8178 full time students, among which there are 7295 undergraduates, 53 junior college students, and 830 post graduate students. The teaching function of the school is more obvious day by day, which is to be “the cradle to nurture talents, the base to carry on culture, the inspiration of innovation and the path to lead the aesthetic.”

Sticking to traditions and promoting advantages, Jilin University of Arts adheres to the principle of building a “practical teaching system” with its own characteristics, with the help of “improving the teaching quality program” and “innovative artistic talents nurturing program”, it is perfecting the teaching system that “let programs, researches, presentations and practices help improve the teaching” and nurture talents with high quality.

Up to now, the College possesses 41 undergraduate majors that cover basically all artistic majors in the range of general colleges, among which the musicology, art design and performing are characteristic specialties, drawing, music perform, visual communication design and performing are of Jilin Provincial brand, broadcasting and hosting and other 5 majors are characteristic specialties are at provincial level. On the provincial level, it also has 12 excellent courses, 36 fine-quality courses, 4 experimental teaching manifestation center, 3 provincial talents nurturing innovative lab sites, 3 undergraduates outside-school learning and practice base, and 1 talents nurturing base of Jilin Drama.

The school has four grade-1 disciplines of Master Degree, including music and dance, stage and screen arts, fine arts, and design, all of which are key disciplines of advantageous characteristic at provincial level, and the disciplines of music and dance, as well as design, are of key importance. It has 3 Professional Master sites including arts, landscape architecture and dissemination of news, 1 national base (China-Russia Higher Learning Institutes Art Communication Base), 2 provincial higher learning institutions humanities and social sciences research bases (Jilin Provincial Art Research Center, Jilin Provincial Art Theory Research Center), 1 provincial key lab (Digital Media and Animation Technologies Key Lab), 2 provincial key needs associative innovation center (Changbai Mountain Cultural Industry and Art Producing Associative Innovation Center, the Art Originality and Design Service Associative Innovation Center under “Internet+”), 1 Jilin provincial engeneering research center (Jilin Provincial 3D Art Experimental Program Research Center). The number of artistic disciplines are of leading level in the overall construction in Jilin Province, and the characteristic specialties of national level, along with the most important disciplines is ranked front in the nation.

The school has a large number of excellent teachers, with 659 teaching staffs, among which there are 481 full-time teachers, 207 associate professors and above, over 100 guest professors and part-time professors from home and abroad. Among these teachers, there are 3 who win the State Council special subsidies, 3 provincial senior experts, 3 provincial leading innovative talents, 6 famous technical teachers in Changbai Mountain, 8 young and middle-aged technical talents with outstanding contributions, 5 provincial excellent teachers, 5 excellent teaching groups at provincial level, 4 innovative groups at provincial level. These people won a lot of national and provincial high awards of arts while nurturing talents for the school: two times winner of the “Five ‘One’ Project” awarded by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPC, the highest award in China’s music industry --- golden medal of Golden Bell Awards, golden medal of National Fine Arts Exhibition, golden medal of “Tao Li Cup” Dance Contest Entry, 6 times winner of China Drama Academy (4 times winner of Short Act and Short Drama Award, 2 times winner of Campus Drama Awards), champion of the first session of “The Voice of China”, the first of China Oil Painting Exhibition Arts Awards, China Animation Golden Monkey Awards, golden metal of CCTV Customs Awards, best opera singing award of International Rachmaninoff Contest, and 34 provincial government awards (teaching achievements in Jilin Province, Changbai Mountain Literature and Art Awards, Jilin Provincial social and scientific excellent achievements award, etc.)

The school has profound cultural history, and in this historical art palace there born a large number of artists and educators who work and live here: Dong Qingcai, Wang Enxian, Lv Jinzao, Yao Yong, Shang Deyi, Gan Bolin, Han Gangjue, Liu Shangkun, Xu Guangrong, Wang Qinghuai, Pan Su, Jin Zhilin, Wang Bingzhao, Sun Tianmu, Li Shouren, Hu Tilin, Ying Ruoshi, Li Wei, Fu Zhigui, Zhou Zhongyuan, Wang Fuling, Zhong Peiru, Chen Hongying, Xu Feng, Yang Cunfu, Guo Fulan, ect. They made remarkable contributions to the development of artistic education.

Since the establishment of the school, it has nurtured a large number of excellent artists and well-known scholars represented by Liu Yunzhi, the seat of honor of China’s National Symphony Orchestra; renowned composer Tang Jianping; Zhao Cong, the seat of honor of pipa in China Central Chinese Orchestra; Dong Yao, the seat of honor of violoncello in China Youth Symphony Orchestra; the famous painter Jia Difei; the overall visual designer of “Asian Boao Forum” Zhang Meng; Wang Xiaoyan the dancer; Bi Mingxin, a famous host of CCTV; Jin Renshun, a famous youth writer; some famous actors such as Zhang Kaili, Hou Tianlai, Ding Haifeng, Yan Xuejing, Yang Tongshu, Zhang Xiaolong and Wang Weizhi; and some managers in the cultural and arts industry such as the vice-minister in the Ministry of Culture Dong Wei, the vice director of National Center for the Performing Arts Yang Jingo, dean of Xinghai Conservatory of Music Tang Yongbao, etc. they all made remarkable contribution to the prosperity of modern culture and art industry.

Jilin University of Arts takes initiative in the communication and cooperation of international art education, successively bridging good relationships with twenty four renowned art colleges in ten countries, America, Canada, German, Russia, Korea, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Belarus, etc. It also arranges exchange programmes with co-schools, regularly designating excellent teachers and students to further studies abroad. Meanwhile, foreign experts and learners are all welcomed to Jilin University of Arts for teaching or exchanging. Designated by the Education Ministry as the only organizer of master class of Russian art, Jilin University of Arts has expanded the international communication and cooperation to other colleges and universities in China. The school played a leading role in the establishment of Ching-Russia higher education institution alliance in 2012. The school now has elaborated 2+2, 3+1 collaboration program in educating students with the University of York and Northumbria University, and has invited many international artists to perform and work here, which provide more opportunities for the teachers and students here to learn from and communicate with them, and further extend the vision of the education of arts, and improved the reputation and influence of our school in the world.

Jilin University of Arts takes voluntary work to serve the development of the social and regional economy and culture industry. It sponsored the design of the Jilin Hall in the Great Hall of the People, and design and production of the floats from Jilin in the 50th and 60th anniversary of the National Day; planed the theme exhibition of Jilin hall in the Shanghai World Expo and made the propaganda film; hosted the “Chinese Bridge” International Undergraduates Chinese Language Contest, the 6th winter Asian Games, the opening and closing ceremony of the 12th China International Children Film Festival, the vision images design of the 12th National Winter Games, Changchun International Piano Festival, Changchun International Sculpture Exhibition, national Arts Fiber Exhibition, etc. participated many major exhibitions such as Northeast Asia Investment and Trade Expo, Automobile Expo, Agriculture Expo, International Film Festival, International Animation Festival, etc. Jilin University of Arts earned a sound reputation in the world and won a lot of praises.

Jilin University of Arts puts great emphasis on the social cultural life and creates a sound atmosphere for arts. Under the guidance of serving the society and an open attitude for learning, Jilin University of Arts keep promoting arts into the society, into the mass public, and into the daily lives. Especially in these years, based on the School Arts Festival and Campus Arts Festival, combined the two brand social practice program “High class culture going into the community” and the “ A Hundred Fine Arts Education Program”, Jilin University of Arts has held nearly one thousand times of concert, design work exhibition, paintings exhibition, stage drama, and dance performance, etc. It received over 50,000 person-time for free and won wide praises from the public.

Among them, the “ A Hundred Fine Arts Education Program” has been held for 20 years successively covering a dozen cities and counties like Changchun, Jilin, Tonghua, Liaoyuan, Siping, Baicheng, Songyuan, Baishan and Yitong. Hence, Jilin University of Arts has been listed as “Advanced Unit in the National Undergraduates Social Practice” by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPC, the Ministry of Education, Mission Central, and national Student Federation.

Jilin University of Arts has gone through seventy years of hardship and glamour, and today it adheres to the school motto of “erudition, truth, perfectionism, and beauty”, carries forward the education concept of “ respecting the individual arts, perfect the social character”, and heads towards the grand goal of “creating a high level comprehensive university that is energetic, full of characteristics, to the world and of the best quality in China”.