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The China Academy of Art serves the public by embracing the great vision of achieving the ideal beauty of harmony through public enjoyment, and by taking on the roles of leader in the construction of Beautiful China, originator of cultural creativity, inheritor and innovator of excellent traditional culture, propeller of industrial transformation and upgrading, and promoter of social aesthetic education. The Academy contributes to society in a meaningful way and adheres to broad national agendas. It delves into a new high-quality development model in which art, science, and ideology are intricately entwined; universities, governments, and enterprises closely collaborate; and education, industry, and society are all comprehensively improved, in order to fuel China's growth with innovation.

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Major National Projects
The Academy, as the national team for art creation, has actively participated in significant national events and consistently met requirements and high standards for design, planning and implementation. The Zhejiang float at the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, with the creative theme of “rivers of tides”, showcased Zhejiang province’s spirit of “doing solid work, marching ahead and being courageous and adventurous”; the emblems and mascots of Asian Games and Asian Para Games Hangzhou 2022 integrate Hangzhou’s history, culture and technological innovation; the iconic symbol of Liangzhu culture demonstrates the history of China’s 5,000-year civilization.
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Museums
The CAAM (CAA Museums) is dedicated to provide social aesthetic education and develop public culture. It not only develops traditional culture but also explores contemporary culture. It maintains its foothold in its native land and broadens its global view. It is an important part of the CAA strategy to construct a world-class university with a platform to display its achievements. CAAM is a stronghold to comprehensively further social aestheticeducation, to spread core values, and support the development of contemporary art and culture in China.
CAAM is comprised of three museums: the Art Museum of China Academy of Art, the China Design Museum, and the Crafts Museum (ethnic and folk arts), with a wide range of themes covering both China and abroad, the traditionalas well as the contemporary. Those museums, along with an online museum, form the whole plan of CAA’ smuseum structure together.
Art Museum of China Academy of Art
Craft Museum
China Design Museum
PanTianshou Memorial Mesuem
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To Build a Better China
The Academy has taken on significant roles in local development and social progress and actively participated in establishing the national image, social governance, industrial innovation, and urban and rural aesthetics, among other areas, and has created strategic cooperation partnerships with more than 40 cities around the country. It has participated in the development of more than 500 beautiful villages, more than 40 themed towns, over a thousand urban aesthetics projects, and has developed a series of prototype rural communities based on the "national lovely villages" concept.
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Country Arts Classes
In keeping with its artistic and pedagogical ideology, where "the school is where the countryside is", China Academy of Art hosted "Country Art Classes", an aesthetic education and public welfare project which saw the academy's teachers, students, and graduates coming together as volunteers showcasing their expertise, aesthetic sensibilities, and theoretical knowledge as well as promoting the great Chinese traditional culture as they guided participants in practicing art. The outreach of the project in the countryside was further expanded through the use of integrated media and the Internet.

Since 2016, "Country Art Classes" has been offering a diverse range of classes which were designed specifically for the project. These include traditional calligraphy and painting, non-heritage art, design and application, holistic exploration, and creative drawing. The classes were conducted in more than half of the provinces in China and hundreds of schools in the counties, cities, and countryside. Over a thousand educators in aesthetic education have benefited from an immersive, holistic, and dynamic practical approach to aesthetic education. More than ten thousand students attended the classes offline while the online lessons − which spanned over 600 episodes in HD quality − saw a viewership that exceeded a million viewers.
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The Art Museum of China Academy of Art was set up in 2003, reconstructed from the Exhibition Hall, which dates back to the founding of CAA in 1928. The Museum is located in Nanshan Road, Hangzhou, with convenient transport facilities and next to West Lake, a World Cultural Heritage site. It uses the methods of visual presentation of art history and artistic expressions of core values. It not only explores the current mission of contemporary art and the creative representations of traditional art, but also serves for the construction of a public cultural service system. It is a comprehensive museum with multiple functions of exhibition, display, collection, research, academic exchange as well as public education, providing creative ideas and platforms for the omnidirectional development of CAA as an art academy. It has set up several administrative offices including the Executive Office, the Exhibition Department, the Archives Department, the Research Department and also the Public Education and Promotion Department. The museum covers an area of nearly 8,000 square metres, with exhibition lines in total of over 1,300 metres. It has six temporary exhibition halls and one permanent exhibition hall, with constant temperature and humidity control. Since its inauguration, it has curated and successfully held over 500 exhibitions of various kinds and scales over the last decade, many of which have been of great academic importance. The museum has already formed its own brand of exhibition series and free to the public all year round.

Wood, painted decoration, ceramics, weaving, printing, dyeing, shadow play as well as many other ethnic and folk handicraft skills—they all contain rich Chinese traditional wisdom, representing the Eastern civilization and a unique way of life. The Crafts Museum aims to collect Chinese traditional material culture and design philosophy, achieving the goal of inheritance, activation and regeneration of Chinese handicraft culture through exhibitions and research projects. Within the context of globalization, it takes the reconstruction of the Eastern design system and the cultural production system as its mission, so as to nourish people’s life in contemporary China and further spread the aesthetic values and cultural spirit of China. With the support of the Government of Zhejiang Province, the China Academy of Art began the construction of the Museum in the year 2011 with the goal of establishing a world-class museum for the study of folk art. It has multiple functions of collecting, displaying, researching, academic teaching as well as public education, and carrying out creative research projects both inside and outside of the school. In many ways, the museum shows the beauty of traditional life and provides a source of knowledge for the development of modern handicrafts and the expression of traditional culture. There are several administrative offices including the Executive Office, the Archives Department, the Research Department, the Curating Department and also the Public Education and Promotion Department. The museum is located on the Xiangshan Campus of CAA, designed by famous Japanese architect Mr. Kengo Kuma. The total land area is 12,204 square meters and the total construction area is 4,936 square meters, of which the exhibition area is 1,667 square meters. It also has a subsidiary collection area and an education center, with an area of 800 square meters and 180 square meters, respectively. Additionally, it is also equipped with an academic lecture hall and several conference rooms with the capacity of accommodating 200 people.

The China Design Museum (CDM) was founded by the China Academy of Art (CAA) with the support of the Government of Zhejiang Province in the year 2011, with an area of 16,800 square metres in the Xiangshan Campus of CAA. Mr. Alvaro Siza, the winner of the 1992 Pritzker Architecture Prize, was invited to design the new building of CDM, which will be open to the public in April 2018. After its completion, CDM will curate and hold exhibitions on design works of talenteddesigners from both China and other countries, aiming to become an Research&Development base and academicinstitution for Chinese contemporary design education. The museum will also act as a platform and ‘think tank’ for the creative industries in China. As the first official design museum in China, CDM has an important mission for design and development in contemporary China as well as the world.

Art Museum of China Academy of Art
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PanTianshou Memorial Museum
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The Pan Tianshou Memorial Museum, located at the site where Pan Tianshou spent his later years, includes a well-preserved art studio and living rooms. The exhibition halls are well planned and display Pan Tianshou’s grand Chinese painting masterpieces year round. It is also the site for Pan Tianshou Foundation and Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Art Master Federation. The museum serves not only as an excellent exhibition place for different artworks, but also as a research institute for Chinese painting and calligraphy.

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