The Académie des Beaux-Arts (ABA) is a school in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The school is devoted to teaching the arts, and was founded in 1943 as the École Saint-Luc à Gombe Matadi by Belgian catholic missionary Marc Wallenda. In 1949 the school moved to present-day Kinshasa and in 1957 it was renamed as the Académie des Beaux-Arts. During the education reforms of 1981 the school was integrated into the national technical university system.
The school offers programs in metalworking, interior decorating, visual communications, sculpture, painting, et cetera.
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Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Académie des Beaux-Arts (Kinshasa).
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