Atatürk Üniversitesi – Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi

In short

The Faculty of Fine Arts of Atatürk University, in Erzurum in eastern Turkey, offers bachelor's programmes in ten departments; according to its history page it was established under a 1992 decree and began teaching in 1994-1995. Its Department of Traditional Turkish Arts has branches in illumination (tezhip), carpet, kilim and historic fabric patterns, bookbinding, restoration of historic tiles and calligraphy, with workshops for illumination, carpets and kilims, natural dyeing, weaving, jewellery design, tiles and ebru marbling. The Ceramics department, active since 2014-2015, has clay and plaster workshops and teaches ceramic technology, decoration techniques and digital design; the faculty also has a Textile and Fashion Design department and admits students by aptitude test.