Escola de la Llotja

The Escola de la Llotja (Catalan pronunciation: [əsˈkɔlə ðə lə ˈʎɔdʒə], "Llotja School"; Spanish: Escuela de la Lonja), officially the Escola d'Arts i Oficis de Barcelona (Barcelona Arts and Crafts School), is an art and design school located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

The school was first oriented around the printing of silk and cotton textiles, and later broadened its scope to include the plastic arts.

In 1790, the school expanded with satellite locations in Olot, Palma de Mallorca, Tàrrega, Girona, Saragossa, and Haca.

Some renowned figures in the world of arts and design have passed through its classrooms, such as the painters Pablo Picasso, Armando Reverón, Isidre Nonell, Joaquim Mir, Manuel Pallarés, Luis Fraile, Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer, Josep Guinovart, Modest Cuixart, Mariano Fortuny and Joan Hernández Pijuan; sculptors such as Damià Campeny, Domènec Talarn, Agapit Vallmitjana i Abarca, Joan Rebull, Frederic Marès and Jaume Plensa; architects such as Cèsar Martinell and Óscar Tusquets; illustrators such as Lola Anglada, Apeles Mestres and Mercè Llimona; furniture designer such as Joan Busquets i Jané; industrial designers such as Gabriel Teixidó; graphic designers such as Josep Artigues; theorists such as Alexandre Cirici i Pellicer and Arnau Puig, and interior designers such as Miquel García i Riera, amongst others.

Mexican painter Sylvia Ordóñez studied printmaking at the Escola de la Llotja in 1979.

Illustration module at the Llotja buildings in the neighborhood of Sant Andreu in Barcelona
Original location in the Llotja de Mar