Rector Sandra Torlucci Website www.una.edu.ar Number of students 16,806 Academic staff 1,703 | Established 1996 Phone +54 11 5777-1300 Founded 1996 | |
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Address Azcuénaga 1129, C1115AAG CABA, Argentina Notable alumni Julio Chávez, Marta Minujín, Jorge Macchi, Alfredo Benavidez Bedoya, Mauricio Lasansky Similar University of Buenos Aires, National University of Tres de, Universidad Argentina de la Em, Conservatorio Nacional Superior, University of Palermo Profiles | ||
The National University of the Arts , in Spanish: UNA - Universidad Nacional de las Artes, formerly known as IUNA - Instituto Universitario Nacional de las Artes, is an Argentine university established in 1996 as an incorporation of various national institutions dedicated to the teaching of fine arts.
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The origins of the current UNA University lay in the 1875 founding of the National Society of the Stimulus of the Arts by painters Eduardo Schiaffino, Eduardo Sívori, and others. Their guild was rechartered as the National Academy of Fine Arts in 1905 and, in 1923, on the initiative of painter and academic Ernesto de la Cárcova, as a department in the University of Buenos Aires, the Superior Art School of the Nation.
The latter in 1927 created the Museum of Reproductions and Comparative Sculpture. In 1936 theatre director Antonio Cunill Cabanellas founded the National Institute of Theatrical Studies. These institutions, as well as the Carlos López Buchardo National Conservatory of Music, the National Institute of Superior Education and Folklore, the María Ruanova National Institute of Superior Education and Dance, and other National Institutes of Liberal Arts Education, all united formed the new National University of the Arts issued in 1996 by Argentina's Ministry of Education.