Jilin Art Institute, referred to as "Jiyi" for short, is located in Changchun City, Jilin Province, the "Spring City in the North". It is the only comprehensive art college in Northeast China, an application-oriented public university with high-level university construction projects in Jilin Province, a Sino-Russian university art exchange base of the Ministry of Education, a national excellent traditional culture heritage base of ordinary universities of the Ministry of Education, an advanced unit of social practice for college students nationwide, and a national professional construction university.
Jiyi was formerly known as 1946 Music Department of Lu Xun College of Literature and Art of Northeastern University, and 1958 established Jilin Art College. 1978 was renamed Jilin art institute, and 1993 was awarded the master's degree. 1995 became the first batch of provincial key discipline colleges in Jilin Province, Jilin City Cultural Cadre School and Jilin City.