Kosiv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts of Lviv National Academy of Arts.

Kosiv Art School is a leading regional higher education institution that has celebrated its 140th anniversary and is of great importance for the development of culture and art not only in the Carpathian region but also throughout Ukraine. The Institute and the College of Decorative and Applied Arts perform an important national task – to preserve and give a modern sound to folk crafts, to develop the tradition through the synthesis of culture and life of the Hutsul region, a protected artistic land that requires not only detailed study but also enrichment through awareness and perception of the past. Graduates of the institution are donors of artistic personnel for centres of folk arts and crafts that are disappearing or on the verge of extinction, and are the bearers of Ukrainian traditional culture and its future.