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The Taichung Normal School was founded in 1923. In 1946, it established the first Fine Arts Department in Taiwan. The Department, then, was directed and taught by a group of prestigious masters in arts, including Chi-Chun Liao, Fo-Ting Lu, Chih-Chu Lin, and Hsa-Yu Chen. Current faculty members also demonstrate their excellences in arts creation and academic research. As the oldest academic institution for art education in central Taiwan, many graduates of the Department have served outstandingly in art teaching. The department history of arts creation also exerts a great amount of influence on the arts development in central Taiwan Since the establishment, the Department has undergone several transformations.
Originally, the Department was the Arts &Crafts section in the Department of Elementary Education in the years of Normal School, Junior Teachers college, and Teachers College. On August 1, 1992, the Department of Arts and Crafts Education was established in pursuing the goal to enhance arts creation and art education. The Graduate program of Arts and Crafts Education was founded on August 1, 2003 to advance arts creation and academic research in arts field. In 2005, our University was upgraded to National Taichung University of Education. To cope with this upgrading and to enlarge our scope in arts, the Department was renamed to the Department of Fine Arts (including the Graduate program of Fine Arts), aiming to provide students excellent professional preparation in Fine Arts, Arts Education, and Digital Creation Arts. The Department of Fine Arts is located in downtown Taichung. Nearby exhibition centers and museums include National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, National Museum of Natural Science, Fengle Sculpture Park, Taichung Stock 20, Taichung City Cultural Affairs Bureau, and Wen Yin Hall. These art institutions not only provide affluent resources for the Department to promote school art education, but also offer great assistance in forming an active art community in central Taiwan. In addition, they offer spaces for our faculty members and students to hold arts exhibitions.
The Department currently composes of 9 full-time faculty members, including Chia-Sen Huang (Department Chair), Tai-Le Cheng, Ming-Chung Chuang, Lien-Dung Chuang, Yen-Shun Wei, Dong-Shan Xie, Bao-Ling Hsiao, Chin-Hsien Lin, and Shi-Min Pai, among whom are 6 professors, 2 associate professors, and 1 assistant professors. Four of the members hold doctoral degrees, one holds a master degree and the rest of three are studying at Ph.D. programs. Besides, there are over 20 part-time faculty members with various expertise in arts to make our faculty team outstanding.
FULL-TIME Professors
Huang, Chia-Sen
Chairperson of the Department
Ph.D Iowa State University , USA
Specialties Teaching Materials & Methods for Elementary School in integrated Arts Education & Humanities, Elementary Teaching Practicum, Qualitative Research for Art Education, Art Teaching & Evaluation, Independent Study, Photography
Cheng, Tai-Le
MFA National Taiwan Normal University , Studying Doctorate Program at the CAFA, Beijing
Specialties Chinese Painting, Chinese Painting Studio, Study of Litterateur Painting, Independent Study, Arts & Crafts
Chuang, Min-Chung
MFA National Taiwan Normal University
Specialties Watercolor, Oil painting, Western Painting Studio, Project-Oil Painting Creation, Independent Study
Chuang, Lien-Dung
MFA National Taiwan Normal University , Studying Doctorate Program at the NTNU, Taipei
Specialties Chinese Painting, Thesis & Graduate Project, Project-Water & Ink Creation, Teaching Materials & Methods for Elementary School in integrated Arts Education & Humanities
Wei, Yen-Shun
Ph.D National Taiwan Normal University
Specialties Arts & Crafts, Ceramic, Crafts Studio, Technology, Arts & Education, Study of Modern Crafts Creation, Independent Study
Xie, Dong-Shan
Ph.D Texas Tech University , USA
Specialties Art Criticism, Criticism History of Modern Art, Western Art Theories, Taiwan Art History
Associate Professors
Hsiao, Bao-Ling
Ph.D Texas Tech University , USA
Specialties Study of Illustrated Book Creation, Arts Curriculum Design, Computer Graphics, Design, Illustration, Design Studio, Independent Study
Lin, Chin-Hsien
MFA National Taiwan Normal University , Studying Doctorate Program at the NTNU, Taipei
Specialties Drawing, Oil Painting, Figurative painting, Project-Oil Painting Creation, Independent Study
Assistant Professors
Pai, Shi-Min
Ph. D Kyoto University , Japan
Specialties Chinese Art History, Theories of Chinese Painting, Project - Art History During the Japanese Governance of Taiwan , Art History of Taiwan , Project-Chinese History, Contemporary Art of Japan , Ancient Calligraphy & Painting A ppreciation
1. Our Department is within the School of Liberal Arts. It provides comprehensive curriculum in both Fine Arts and Applied Arts.
2. In order to provide students with a broad exposure in arts, the Department offers courses in the following areas: Art Education, Theories of Contemporary Arts, Visual Arts Creation, and Digital Arts.
3. In addition to the required professional courses such as Sketches, Watercolor Painting, Chinese Painting, Design, Crafts, Computer Graphics, Oil Painting, etc., the Department provides six concentrations to meet students' different needs. Thus, students can take courses aiming to prepare them to serve as art teachers in the future or they can focus on courses relating to Digital Creation Arts, for example.
