China Academy of Art

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The Affiliated High School

The Affiliated High School was founded in the year of 1929, then called “The High School of the National Art College”. In 1954, it changed its name to The Affiliated High School of the East China Campus of Central Academy of Fine Arts, then to The Affiliated High School of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in 1958 and finally to its current name in 1993. The high school was the earliest base for art education in China and one of the most prestigious secondary art schools in China. Since its establis

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School of Foundation Studies

As a front-end professional fundamental education unit of the two-stage education form, School of Foundation Studies includes fine arts department, design department and iamge and media department, which sets up three teaching studios of drawing, traditional Chinese painting,calligraphy and image. The school inherits the ‘Broad Curriculum, High Caliber, Strong Foundation and Diverse Practice’ educational philosophy. To centralize the excellent resources, the school aims at improving the basic ab

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School of Social Aesthetic Education, School of Continuing Education

The School of Continuing Education is a secondary school of China Academy of Art, which includes adult continuing education, advanced studies program, teacher training and distance education. The school has evolved through several name changes - CAA Adult Education Division, CAA College of Adult Education, and CAA College of Further Education- since the establishment of “CAA Adult Education Institute” was approved by the Ministry of Culture. The School has been keeping the fine tradition and aca

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International College

International College is a branch of CAA whose responsibility is in charge of academic programs for overseas students and international artistic exchanges. Its principal objective is to promote Chinese cultures to the world,encourage international artistic exchanges, and enhance friendship with the rest of the world.It has three units providing courses of Chinese painting, Chinese calligraphy, together with Chinese culture and language. Courses in oil painting, printmaking, sculpture, intermedia

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School of Design & Innovation

School of Design&Innovation is located in Liangzhu campus of CAA, focusing on innovative design discipline, which is integrated with art, design and commerce. It has three majors including art and technology, industrial design and digital media art. It opens up a new mechanism of combing talents, teaching, management and education. It aims for developing a “New Bauhaus”based on big data, and intelligent media, with the ideology of “facing the future, society, reform and integration”to make a

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Shanghai Institute of Design

Shanghai Institute of Design is located in core area of Zhangjiang High tech zone in Shanghai Pudong district. It is the main strategic site for CAA to realize its service in the Yangzi delta area. It was founded in 1996. After twenty years’ development, Shanghai Institute of Design has developed unique principles that combine the advantages of cosmopolitan of Shanghai and the humanistic tradition of CAA. The institute aims to become an internationalized program which nurtures talents specialize

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School of Art Administration and Education

The School of Art Administration and Education is an important part of the outstanding group of contemporary Chinese visual culture and art programs offered by China Academy of Art. It is also an essential part of the newly emerging interdisciplinary approach to art education at China Academy of Art.With the School's sense of social responsibility comes the goal of social aesthetic in education and developing in public cultural service system. The school is based on the integration of global

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School of Art and Humanities

The School of Art and Humanities has the Department of Art History, Department of Visual Culture Studies, Department of Curatorial Studies and Administration, Department of Archeology and Museology, Department of Liberal Arts and General Studies and it is the site of national key disciplines of art study and key base of art and humanities disciplines in Zhejiang Province. The program obtained the right to grant the Master of Fine Arts degree early in the 1980s, and was the first place in the cou

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School of Architecture

The School of Architecture is located on the Xiangshan campus. It was first established in 1928 with a long academic history. It was merged into another university in 1952 due to a national adjustment of higher education. In 1984, the Environmental Design Institute was established and the Department of Environmental Design was set up in 1989. In 2003, the Department of Architecture was re-established and it proposed initially an educational goal to train vernacular “intellectual craftsmen” archi

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School of Animation and Games

China Academy of Art has made outstanding contributions to the development of Chinese art films. In the early days of Shanghai Animation Film Studio, nearly one third of its employees came from China Academy of Art (formerly Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts), among whom were a group of famous animation directors such as Ma Kexuan, Xu Jingda (alias Ada) and Lu Chengfa.In 2002, China Academy of Art established the Department of Animation, which was one of the earliest units engaged in animation teach