In August 1992, the Academy of Arts was approved to be established independently from the Faculty of Arts. In November of the same year, the Art Building, which was rebuilt from the Engineering and Education Building, was officially opened. Lu Mingde, a professor of the Department of Fine Arts, served as the first dean, and the second dean was Chen Ruiwen. Professor, the third dean is Professor Huang Jiujuan, and the current dean is Professor Huang Fangyin. The department includes the Department of Fine Arts, the Department of Music, the Department of Visual Design, the Interdisciplinary Art Research Institute, the Art Industry Aboriginal Bachelor’s Program, and the Performing Arts Master’s Degree Program. The School of Art has begun to integrate various resources inside and outside the school, and promote various research, teaching, promotion and other related activities, forming an important center for the development of culture and art education in the south.