Lviv National Academy of Arts (Львівська національна академія мистецтв; Lvivska natsionalna akademiia mystetstv). A postsecondary institution in Lviv offering a five-year program in the fields of fine art, decorative and applied art, design, restoration, history of culture, art criticism, and social and cultural management. This art school was established in 1946 by decrees of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (13 August 1946) and the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR (6 September 1946) as Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Art. Its forerunners included the school of graphic art and drawing (est 1876) of the Museum of Handicrafts (est 1873); the Free Academy of Arts (est 1905); the Novakivsky Art School (est 1923); and the Circle of Ukrainian Art Workers (est 1922). Initially the institute fell under the Ministry of Culture of the Ukrainian SSR and consisted of the Faculties of Applied and Decorative Arts and Applied and Graphic Arts. The Faculty of Graphic Arts was transferred to the Kharkiv Industrial Design Institute and the Kyiv State Art Institute. Two sections of the Faculty of Applied and Decorative Arts—the Departments of Monumental Decorative Painting and of Monumental Decorative Sculpture—were later also transferred to the Kyiv State Art Institute. In 1959 a Department of Garment Designing was established to complement the Department of Decorative Woven Textiles. A Department of Interior Design, added in the 1960s, later developed into a faculty. The Woodcrafting Department was abolished in the late 1970s. In 1994 the institute was reorganized into an academy of arts, and in 2004 it was granted a national institution of higher learning status and assumed its current name. Until 2020 the academy was subordinated to Ukraine’s Ministry of Education, after 2020 to the Ministry of Culture. The academy’s closest institutional partners in Ukraine are the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv and Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts.

Today the academy consists of four faculties: design (with the departments of graphic design, design for environment, and fashion design), applied and decorative arts (with departments of art textile, ceramic, glass art, woodware, and metalware), fine arts and restoration (with departments of monumental painting, monumental and decorative sculpture, sacral art, artworks restoration, contemporary art practices, and two general departments: academic drawing and academic painting), and the history and theory of art (with departments of art management and theory and history of art). Its graduate school trains students in the areas of fine arts, decorative art, restoration, and design and awards the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Doctor of Arts. The academy operates an art lyceum in Lviv and an institute of applied and decorative art in Kosiv, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. Until 2013 it also had a branch in Sevastopol in the Crimea. Its library has 76,000 books and periodicals, including a series of bio-bliographic volumes featuring artists, teachers, and scholars associated with the academy. It runs two art galleries (one for student works and one for guest exhibitions) and a museum. The academic staff of the institute and, later, academy has included painters Vitold Manastyrsky, Roman Selsky, Yosyp Bokshai, and Karlo Zvirynsky, the sculptor Emanuil Mysko, the designer Yaroslav Ulhursky, and the art historians Yakym Zapasko and Volodymyr Ovsiichuk. Among the graduates are the ceramist and glass artist Andrii Bokotei, the graphic artists Sofiia Karaffa-Korbut and Bohdan Soroka, painters Zenovii Flinta, Ivan Marchuk, Volodymyr Patyk, Petro Markovych, and Oleh Tistol, and the sculptors Dmytro Krvavych and Liubomyr Terletsky. 21 of the school’s graduates were awarded Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine, the country’s highest award for works of culture and arts. Its rectors have been Hennadii Leonov (1946–52), Feofan Pavliuchenko (1952–54), Oleksii Sydorov (1954–58), Yakym Zapasko (1958–71), Valentyn Borysenko (1971–77), Ihor Serediuk (1977–88), Emanuil Mysko (1988–2000), Andrii Bokotei (2000–15), Volodymyr Odrekhivsky (2016–21), and Vasyl Kosiv (2021–). The academy publishes Visnyk L'vivs'koї natsional'noї akademiї mystetstv (48 vols, 1990–).

BIBLIOGRAPHY
L'vivs'ka natsional'na akademiia aystetstv (Lviv 2011)
L'vivs'ka natsional'na akademiia mystetstv, 1876–1946–2016: Osoblyvosti, podii, artefakty; al'bom (Lviv 2016)
The academy’s official website: https://www.lnam.edu.ua/uk/home.html

Serhiy Bilenky, Bohdan Medwidsky

[This entry was updated in 2023.]