In December 1965, the institution was subordinated to the Ministry of Local Industry of the USSR and renamed Uzhgorod College of Applied Arts.

The main building, where drawing, painting and composition and font computer classes are held, is in Uzhhorod at Voloshin, 37 in the historic part of the city.

In the center of Mukachevo, there are classrooms in the "White House" of the Rákóczi family, which was built in the mid-17th century as the residence of the Transylvanian princes.

Created in 2004, the department trains bachelor-level students in the following majors: painting, metalwork, ceramics and woodworking.

The Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sports of Ukraine annually holds the All-Ukrainian Painting Olympiad at the academy.

In this department, the following disciplines are taught: pedagogy and psychology, cultural studies, history of Ukraine; aesthetics; ethnopsychology, foundations of law; basics of economic theories; Ukrainian business language, philosophy, copyright, religious studies, sociology and political science, basics of management and marketing, teaching methods of special disciplines and others.