Shandong Institute of Arts and Crafts, founded in 1973, is a well-known art college in China, an independent ordinary art college, a humanities and social science base and a cultural and creative industry research and development base in Shandong Province

Shandong Institute of Arts and Crafts is located in Jinan City, Shandong Province, founded in 1973, is currently one of the 31 independent art colleges and universities in China, is a bachelor's degree, master's degree awarding unit. Since 1989, when the first batch of undergraduate majors of decoration art design and dyeing and weaving art design were granted the right to confer bachelor's degrees, up to now, 14 undergraduate majors have the right to confer bachelor's degrees. In January 2006, it was approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council and became a master's degree-granting institution. Now it has formed a multi-level pattern of undergraduate education, postgraduate education, higher vocational education and continuing education. After years of development, the school has developed into a design and art school with distinctive professional characteristics, outstanding school performance, and certain influence at home and abroad.

The school adheres to the teaching as the center, scientific research (creation) as the guide, and the teaching and scientific research (creation) work promote each other, and has achieved great results. In the past five years, the school has won 7 Shandong Provincial Higher Education Outstanding Teaching Achievement Awards, including 2 first prizes, 1 second prize and 4 third prizes. 6 provincial excellent courses were selected; His scientific research achievements have won the first prize of the National Social Science Foundation of China, the "Five One Project" award of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, the second prize of the Outstanding Achievements in Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, and more than 100 achievements have won the Outstanding Achievement Award of Social Sciences of Shandong Province and the Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award of the Provincial Department of Education. The design (creation) works have won 4 silver awards, 8 bronze awards, and many other awards at all levels in the 9th and 10th National Art Exhibitions.

The school adheres to the path of combining production, education and research, and serving the economic and cultural construction of teaching and scientific research (creation), and has achieved significant economic and social benefits. Since 2002, the school has undertaken the overall design of the Shandong Provincial Education Achievement Exhibition, the Shandong Exhibition Hall of the China International Education Science and Technology Expo, the "Tenth Five-Year" Achievement and the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" Exhibition of Shandong Province, and the design of the emblem, digital image ambassador and Confucius statue (model) of the "2006 Shandong (International) Cultural Industry Expo". Undertake the design of the emblem of the 11th National Games; It has hosted the "2003 Contemporary Book Design Expert Forum", the 2004 Shandong Youth Art Exhibition - "Ping An Shandong" Poster Design Competition, the "2005 National Visual Communication Design Education Forum and the First 'Design Star' National College Students' Excellent Graphic Design Exhibition", "2006 China (Jinan) Contemporary International Photography Biennale and the First World College Student Photography Art Exhibition", "2007 Qilu International Photography Week and Mozi Small Hole Imaging International Photography Symposium"; Undertake the "2002 Chinese Contemporary Mural Art Symposium", "2006 Shandong (International) Cultural Industry Expo" series of exhibitions, academic forum activities; Undertake the standard formulation and training project of "National Vocational Qualification - Advertising Designer" of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security; The China Folk Art Research Institute and the Shandong Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Center participated in the national "Chinese Folk Cultural Heritage Rescue Project" project; Many teachers have held exhibitions at home and abroad, including the solo exhibitions of three professors at the National Art Museum of China.

The university implements the strategy of opening up the school, and actively carries out educational cooperation and academic and cultural exchanges at home and abroad. The university has established inter-school relations with 24 schools in South Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Sweden, Finland, Austria, France, Russia and Australia, and signed substantive cooperation agreements, such as the "Art and Science Research Center" jointly established by the school and the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, the "Design Management Research Center" jointly established with Staffordshire University in the United Kingdom, the "Digital Research Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage" in cooperation with three universities including the University of Oregon in the United States, and the "Digital Research Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage" with Kyungpook University in South Korea, Qingyun University jointly held an exhibition of works by teachers and students. In 2005, the school joined the International Alliance of Design and Art Schools, which further expanded the platform for international exchange and cooperation. At the same time, the school attaches great importance to exchanges and cooperation with domestic universities and cultural institutions, and has successively cooperated with Nanjing University of the Arts, Southeast University, and Shandong University to train master's students. Since 2004, it has established undergraduate visiting relations with Shandong University and Shandong University of Economics. Shandong TV Station, Shandong Fine Arts Publishing House, Shandong Drama Theater and other cultural units are not only the school's off-campus practice bases, but also project cooperation units.