History
The Academy was established in 1996 through the amalgamation of five independent colleges:
- The National Academy of Craft and Art Industry (Statens håndverks- og kunstindustriskole), founded in 1818
- The National Academy of Fine Arts (Statens kunstakademi), founded in 1909
- The National Academy of Theatre (Statens teaterhøgskole), founded in 1952
- The National Academy of Opera (Statens operahøgskole), founded in 1964
- The National Academy of Ballet (Statens balletthøgskole), founded in 1979
These former colleges are now organised in three faculties: the Faculty of Design, the Faculty of Performing Arts and the Faculty of Visual Arts.
The Oslo National Academy of the Arts has so far been housed in several buildings in Oslo. In the summer of 2003, the Faculty of Performing Arts was moved to the new campus at the old textile plant Seilduken at Grünerløkka in central Oslo. In the summer of 2010, the remaining faculties joined.
Read more about this topic: Oslo National Academy Of The Arts
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In the history of the human mind, these glowing and ruddy fables precede the noonday thoughts of men, as Aurora the sun’s rays. The matutine intellect of the poet, keeping in advance of the glare of philosophy, always dwells in this auroral atmosphere.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)