The Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico (English: School of Plastic Arts and Design of Puerto Rico) is an institution of higher learning engaged in the training of students in the visual arts.
The school was founded in 1965 as part of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture.
Painter José Antonio Torres Martinó was one of the school's co-founders.
[3] As an autonomous school it was created by an amendment of legislation by the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico in 1971, and achieved its definitive form and autonomy under Public Law 54 of August 22, 1990.
Today, the school is Puerto Rico's foremost institution of higher education in the visual arts.