Guangxi Arts Institute (GXAI) was founded by the great Chinese painter, Mr. Xu Beihong in Guilin in 1938. It is located in downtown Nanning City, the capital of Guangxi Province, which has won the China Habitat Environment Award and the Owner of UN Habitat Scroll of Honor for the city's modern outlook and pleasant weather. Bordered by the picturesque Nanhu Lake, it occupies an area of 107,400 square meters. It is one of the six provincial comprehensive arts institutions of higher learning in China and the only comprehensive arts institute in Guangxi.
The Institute has seven colleges and a Middle School, namely College of Fine Arts, College of Design, Guilin Academy of Chinese Painting, College of Music, College of Dance, College of Humanities and College of Film & Television as well as the Affiliated Middle School. Guangxi Arts Institute offers 13 undergraduate programs in fine arts, painting, sculpture, advertisement, animation, art design, musicology, composition and composition theories, dance, dance choreography, dance performance, broadcasting and anchoring with 42 majors. It is authorized to confer master degrees in musicology, fine arts and design with 52 directions.
The well-equipped teaching facilities includes painting studios, piano rooms, concert hall, rehearsal hall, multi-media classroom, computer classrooms, specialized labs, teaching studios and computer music studios.
Inheriting the tradition, based on local resources, backed by advantageous geography and resourceful ethnic and folk art, the Institute carries out the personalized arts education with distinct local and ethnic features, achieving outstanding results.
Its long history, complete disciplines, strong faculty, abundant school running experiences, advantageous teaching facilities, art education with unique ethnic minority characteristics enable it to rank in the front row among the art colleges of the same kind nationwide. In the national undergraduate Education Level Evaluation carried out by the Ministry of Education, GAI was awarded the Excellent Grade.
It has co-operations and cultural exchanges with art institutions throughout the world such as Juilliard School, Eastman School of Music. There are now students from US, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau.