The Guignard University of Art of Minas Gerais is a university of fine arts, founded on 28 February 1944 by Alberto da Veiga Guignard in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil, on request of Juscelino Kubitschek Mayor of Belo Horizonte and later President of Brazil (Universidade do Estado de Minas-Gerais).