October 31, the 25th China International Education Fair was held in Beijing. The awarding ceremony for the Higher Education Quality Certification for International Students in China was held at the conference, and the China Academy of Art was awarded the "Education Service Certification Certificate" for Higher Education Quality Certification for International Students in China.，Achieved the best score in the initial certification, rated as B+ level and obtained a certification validity period of 6 years. As the first art school in China to receive such certification, our school will take this opportunity to further promote the high-quality development of studying abroad in China.
Historically rich, distinct in character
The China Academy of Art has always adhered to the academic thought of "integration and inclusion, innovation in tradition, diversity and interaction, harmony in difference" in the education of international students coming to China. It takes "dual drive of global and local, two-way communication of humanities and science and technology" as the main educational principle, cultivating "four-way" talents with "comprehensive quality, artistic and theoretical understanding, ancient and modern understanding, and Chinese and foreign understanding". It continuously builds the most time-honored destination for international art talent cultivation in China, with the most distinctive professional teaching characteristics, the most outstanding talent cultivation effectiveness, and the most solid disciplinary strength. It also constructs an eastern highland for art education, creation, and research, helping the school to accelerate its construction into a world-class academy of fine arts that embodies the highest level of Chinese cultural and artistic research and teaching.
Mr. Mo Pu, the former president, poses for a group photo with the first batch of overseas students and Chinese teachers and students
The China Academy of Art is one of the first batch of universities open to the outside world by the Ministry of Education and the first batch of universities to build a demonstration base for studying in China. In 1978, the university was approved to become one of the first 43 colleges and universities in China with the qualification to recruit foreign students, and in the same year, the International Students Office was established. Since 1980, it has officially recruited international students to China, and it is one of the earliest art academies in China to carry out the training of international students. They were fortunate to meet a group of calligraphy and painting masters such as Lu Yanshao and Sha Menghai, felt the purest traditional art nurturing, underwent strict brush and ink training, and became the first batch of "foreign faces" in the field of Chinese calligraphy and painting. In the 1990s, with the development and growth of our disciplines, the education of international students gradually expanded to various majors such as oil painting, printmaking, sculpture, history theory, design, etc., and international students studied and grew together with their Chinese classmates, laying a solid foundation for our international education.
Mr. Lu Yanxiao's professorship of the first batch of overseas students in Chinese painting and calligraphy
First American University of Minnesota Chinese calligraphy and painting short training class group photo
In the new century, our university put forward the cultural proposition of "multiple interactions, harmony and diversity", as well as the two-wheel drive development strategy of "global-local", and clarified the ideological foundation and core goal of a new round of internationalization, that is, "to fully implement the internationalization strategy with subjectivity, and to create an oriental highland of art education and humanistic thought". Under the guidance of this new idea, the education of international students in our university has entered a new stage of development. In 2000, our university pioneered the world's first theoretical and practical compound art doctoral education, and the first batch of doctoral students included two international students, Rose (Austria) and Oh Soon-yi (South Korea), accounting for one-third of the total number of students. In 2003, the school established the School of International Education, which gradually established a relatively strict academic norms, teaching standards and management system, and achieved leapfrog development in terms of student scale, quality and connotation. In 2013, it was approved by the Ministry of Education as one of the first batch of universities in China to build a demonstration base for studying in China. In 2016, he founded the first all-English art major in China, "Visual China: Chinese Contemporary Art Master's Program Taught in English". In 2017, the university was selected as a national "double first-class" construction university, and put forward the core goal of "building a world-class art discipline characterized by Oriental studies, and creating a new humanistic education system with artistic creation as the core and social aesthetic education as the responsibility".
Group photo of the watermark woodcut lecture of the 90th anniversary of the "Chinese Culture and Art Week".
Wide field, multi-level
The study abroad work of China Academy of Art has always been closely integrated with the construction of first-class majors and high-quality curriculum resources, and the enrollment majors for international students in China cover most of the national and provincial first-class majors of our university, and all professional courses are open to international students in China. The majors of international students in China have developed from focusing on high-point characteristic disciplines such as Chinese painting and calligraphy in the early 80s of the last century to covering five disciplines, including fine arts, design, architecture, drama, film and television, and art theory, forming a wide-ranging and multi-level education and training system for international students in China.
Group photo of the 25th National Games of the international student team
For more than 40 years, our school has always been committed to promoting the excellent traditional Chinese culture, relying on the rich academic resources of the school, with Chinese calligraphy and painting and "visual China" as the core, and establishing a set of high-level international art talent training mechanism with overall convergence and taking into account differences, which runs through the three levels of undergraduate, master's and doctoral, covering management, teaching, education and other aspects, which is unique in the education field. At present, the high-level education of international students has become an important feature of the development of first-class disciplines in our university, and it has also become the core driving force for our university to build a world-class art college.
The construction of first-class majors and courses in our school
In terms of curriculum construction for non-degree students, we insist on characteristic training, and have long held professional Chinese tutoring, Chinese calligraphy and painting training, and Chinese culture and art short-term courses, and always adhere to the combination of "bringing in" and "going out". Over the years, it has successfully attracted learners from all over the world, including the Brown Ink Short Course in the United States (which has lasted for more than 30 years), the Gifu Women's University in Japan (which has lasted for more than 30 years), the Chinese Traditional Culture Course at Appalachian University in the United States, the French Calligraphy and Painting Exchange Association, the Calligraphy and Painting Workshop of Daito Bunka University in Japan, the Short Course in Calligraphy and Painting of the White Keisa in Japan, and the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Short Course at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore. At the same time, the school actively selects young teachers and outstanding graduate students to go to the Royal Giralda School in Thailand and the California Chinese Painting Association in the United States to engage in the teaching of traditional calligraphy and painting, establish overseas teaching bases, promote the overseas dissemination of Chinese calligraphy and painting, promote the international dissemination of Chinese culture, and enhance the international influence of the school.
Ren Tianjin, an international doctoral student, gave a lecture to Bai Lefei's Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Workshop in California, USA
Knowing China and friends, talents come out in large numbers
Over the past 40 years, the China Academy of Art has sent a large number of high-level international art talents to more than 100 countries and regions around the world, and has trained more than 1,000 students with academic qualifications to study in China, and more than 10,000 long-term and short-term students, ranking among the top art universities in China. From the presidents of national academies of fine arts in different countries to internationally acclaimed artists and scholars, graduates of the China Academy of Art are active in all corners of the global art world. They have not only made remarkable achievements in their respective fields, but also actively promoted cultural exchanges and cooperation between China and foreign countries.
Group photo of the 40th anniversary exhibition of China Academy of Art's study and education in China
Through brand activities such as "Perception of China", "Art of the Four Seas" and "International Youth Art Week", the learning results of international students in China are presented in a three-dimensional way. "Perception of China" provides a social practice platform for international students to truly enter China and understand China; "Four Seas Yitong" has built a platform for them to display their cross-border and cross-professional creative achievements; The annual "International Youth Art Week" breaks through the ivory tower with a wallless academy to showcase their wonderful graduation works to the world. Because of art, they are reunited in GOME, and the school strives to provide opportunities, create platforms, and play a role in enhancing the perception, learning, academicity and life of international students, and empowering them with GOME feelings, Chinese culture and world vision.
Group photo of the "Sense China" brand activity of the Institute of International Education
Russian graduate student Choma speaks at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Youth Art Week
Toshiharu Kawachi, a Japanese alumnus who graduated from the China Academy of Art with a major in calligraphy, is currently the chairman of the Japan Calligraphy Research Association and the vice president of Daito Bunka University, and has made outstanding contributions to Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges.
Guo Lufeng, a Korean alumnus, graduated from the first batch of calligraphy theory at the China Academy of Art, and is currently a professor at Dongfang University in South Korea, vice president of the Korean Calligraphers Association, director of the Korean Calligraphy Research Institute, member of the Cultural Heritage Committee of the Korea Cultural Heritage Agency, and a famous Korean calligrapher. In addition to the creation of calligraphy, Guo Lufeng has also been committed to the Korean translation of Chinese calligraphy for a long time, building a bridge of friendship between China and South Korea.
Eva Luedi Kong, a Swiss national, studied calligraphy and printmaking at the China Academy of Art in the 90s and received a bachelor's degree. It took nearly 20 years to complete the translation of "Journey to the West" into German, won the Translation Award at the 13th Leipzig Book Fair in 2017, and published the German version of "Thousand Words" in Germany in 2019, making positive contributions to promoting the dissemination of Chinese classical literature around the world.
Tomita Jun, a Japanese alumnus who graduated from the China Academy of Art with a major in calligraphy, is currently the director of the Kyushu National Museum and a well-known scholar of the history of calligraphy.
Wu Shunyi, a Korean alumnus, graduated from the first batch of Chinese painting theory and practice compound art at the China Academy of Art, and is currently the director of the Department of Oriental Painting and doctoral supervisor of the School of Art of Dankook University in South Korea.
Andreas Schmid, a German alumnus, studied calligraphy at the China Academy of Art as an exchange student in the 80s of the last century, and is currently a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, integrating traditional Chinese ink painting and calligraphy into modern art education.
Italian alumnus Pietro de Laurentis, who studied calligraphy at the China Academy of Art in his early years, is now a member of the Chinese National Talent Program and a professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.
Kalama Akulez Henri, a Ph.D. graduate of the China Academy of Art majoring in oil painting, is currently the director of the Academie des Beaux Arts de Kinshasa, actively promoting the cooperation and development of art education between China and Africa.
French alumnus Isabelle Baticle, graduated from China Academy of Art with a bachelor's degree in calligraphy, a French ink artist, has long been engaged in the teaching and creation of ink painting and calligraphy, has held many solo exhibitions of ink painting and calligraphy in France, organized and planned joint exhibitions of Chinese calligraphy and painting and oriental cultural exchange and education activities.
Croatian alumnus Ida Blazicko, a Ph.D. graduate of the China Academy of Art majoring in public art, is currently the vice president of the Croatian Artists Association, and has participated in many important international exhibitions such as the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Croatian Sculpture Triennial, and has won the gold medal for large-scale permanent public sculpture in Italy. Connecting Eastern and Western art through artworks and cultural exchange programs.
Michael Cavayero, an American alumnus, received his master's degree and doctorate degree in Chinese painting (landscape) from the China Academy of Art, and is currently an assistant professor and researcher at the School of Arts of Peking University, focusing on the interaction between Buddhism and the history of painting.
Mariya Dragomirova Ganeva, a Bulgarian alumnus, graduated from the China Academy of Art in 1993 with a master's degree in fine arts and Chinese painting, and is currently the director of the Department of Fiber Art at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Leandre Burkhard, a Swiss alumnus, graduated with a master's degree in ceramic art in 2017 and is now a full-time teacher at the School of Handicraft Arts, committed to the cultural exchange of ceramic art between China and Switzerland.
Malaysian alumnus Liu Chuangxin, who received a doctorate in art from the China Academy of Art, was a director of the Malaysian Book Association, and now serves as an honorary member of the Xiling Seal Society and the president of the Malaysian Seal Carving Association, and was selected into the first Forbes list of Chinese cultural influencers in 2024, and has made remarkable achievements in the collection and appreciation of cultural relics.
Malaysian alumnus Zhu Shaoying, who studied Chinese painting at the China Academy of Art, is currently the President of the Malaysian Artists Association, the President of the Malaysian Women Calligraphers and Painters Association, and the Vice President of the Malaysian Chinese Cultural Association. Actively promote the exhibition and creation of ink paintings, and promote art exchanges between China and Malaysia.
Outstanding International Alumni
Art has no borders, and there are no boundaries for the United States, and wherever the people of the United States go, the road of the United States will extend to wherever they go. Young students from all over the world came to China because of art, and they brought diverse visions and cross-cultural concepts to GOME. They also spread the flame of Gome to the world, so that the road of Gome extends to all directions.
