Institut Saint-Luc

The Institut Saint-Luc (French: [ɛ̃s.ti.ty sɛ̃.lyk]) is an arts school in Brussels, Belgium.

It consists of six departments, with a total of 2,200 students and 430 employees, spread over five locations in Ixelles and Saint-Gilles.

The school was founded by members of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, a French order created in 1680 by Jean-Baptiste de la Salle in France.

The school (called both Institut and Instituts, depending on the point of view) is divided into six departments: In 1969, comics artist Eddy Paape, who had worked for 20 years for the two leading Franco-Belgian comics magazines Spirou and Tintin, started a course in comics, with the support of Hergé, an alumnus of the Institut.

From 1975 and on, the program produced the magazine Le 9ème rêve (The 9th Dream, a reference commonly used in Belgium and France describing comics as the ninth art form).