The Higher School of Art and Design of Segovia is a public training institution with different levels in Art Studies and Training. Courses in offer include: Bachillerato (two-year post-secondary education) with a specialism in Arts, Intermediate vocational training -Tapestries and Wall Murals (Two-year course), Higher vocational training - Illustration (Two-year course), Diploma in Higher Education Product Design.
The aim of these studies is that students will acquire the necessary knowledge and technical skills in order to develop their future work. We also seek to facilitate their access to work and a higher education.
Our students will benefit of a comprehensive and personalized training that combines theory with training workshops which include a provision of a direct contact with companies in the sector.
The city of Segovia is a monumental gathering of individual buildings, churches, city ramparts and palaces. All these remarkable buildings display in its exterior and especially in their interior the works of great artists and artisans of all traditional crafts.
Artistic education in Segovia dates back from the eighteenth century when scholar Espinosa de los Monteros created a drawing school to disseminate artistic knowledge among artisans and workers in the field. This tradition remained untouched until today with all the required adaptations to today's new economic structures which impose a rearrangement of new functions and demands for art studies.
In academic year 1977-1978 a new curriculum was created to respond to these social demands and in the late years the curricula have been adapted progressively to new education regulations.
In the last third of the fifteenth century, Segovia's Governor D. Juan de la Hoz, commissioned this typical Castilian home "by building this façade from the base to the cornice, but the holes. Only blocks carved in a diamond shape can fit in them. So this ornament appears not planted here and there on the front as can be seen in La Casa de las Conchas in Salamanca, but covering them and thus preserving all the sullen rudeness of the medieval character".
Over the years the building has gone through several public and private ownerships. In the 70's the building was transferred to the Ministry of Education which restored and revamped this historic building with the name of The School of Applied Arts in 1977.
Calle Juan Bravo, n.º 33. 40001 Segovia
Tel. 921 462 674 / Fax. 921 462 677
e-mail: secretaria@easdsegovia.com