In the 1980s, several art teachers led by Professor José Roselló Valle, as well as politicians of the time, such as the person in charge of culture of the Provincial Council of Pontevedra, Adriano Marques, fought and made multiple steps and efforts so that the city would have a Faculty of Fine Arts in the project for the creation of the future university, which was to be called University of Southern Galicia.

[4] The Faculty of Fine Arts of Pontevedra was created in 1990 by Decree 416/1990, of 31 July, of the Ministry of Education and University Planning, in its article 14.

[6] For the first four years, the Faculty of Fine Arts was provisionally housed in the former Provincial Hospice in Sierra Street, with a certain precariousness in terms of material means and space.

[11] From the beginning, there was a great interaction between the students of the faculty and the city of Pontevedra, with installations, performances and artworks in the streets.

The centre also hosts the master's degree in Fashion Design and Creative Direction[15] and the PhD in Creation and Research in Contemporary Art.