Recently, the Tanghu Museum of Art in Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone (WEDZ), under the trusteeship of our university, has once again secured a national accolade. The museum’s series of public education activities, titled the “Chinese Traditional Art Immersion Program for Foreign Nationals,” has been recognized as an “Outstanding Public Education Nomination Project” by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Professor Ming Mei from the School of Fine Arts conducts a public education activity on traditional Chinese landscape painting for French students.
The public education activity on traditional calligraphy
The public education activity on intangible cultural heritage flower and grass lanterns
As a state-owned art museum, the Tanghu Museum of Art was invested and constructed by the WEDZ and entrusted to Jianghan University for operation and management, featuring a significant outcome of the strategic cooperation between the two parties.
In recent years, leveraging the platform of the Tanghu Museum of Art, the School of Fine Arts, in partnership with the School of International Education, has focused on the foreign nationals cluster in the WEDZ. By inviting professors, scholars, inheritors of intangible cultural heritage, and artists from provincial universities to actively participate, they jointly planned and carried out the “Chinese Traditional Art Immersion Program for Foreign Nationals” series of public education activities. These initiatives have invigorated the international development of the local culture in the Economic and Technological Development Zone.
The “Chinese Traditional Art Immersion Program for Foreign Nationals” series at the Tanghu Museum of Art has brought rich and colorful traditional Chinese cultures, including Chinese seal engraving, rubbing, traditional Chinese painting, calligraphy, paper-cutting, and tie-dyeing, into public education activities. By successfully creating a “multi-dimensional” interactive experience, the program has attracted nearly 900 participants. Thanks to its innovative formats, remarkable educational outcomes, and broad social impact, this project has emerged as a standout among hundreds of projects from art museums nationwide, earning a nomination for the 2024 Excellent Public Education Project of National Art Museums.
The public education activity on intangible cultural heritage paper-cutting
The public education activity on intangible cultural heritage head-pinned flowers
The Tanghu Museum of Art, as a pivotal cultural and artistic stronghold in the WEDZ, adheres steadfastly to the principle of serving the people. Open to the public free of charge, it offers a high-caliber space for artistic exchange. Over the past decade, with guidance from the Department of Culture and Tourism of Hubei Provinceand the Hubei Federation of Literary and Art Circles Hubei, leadership from the General Labor Union of the WEDZ and the Tanghu Workers’ Cultural Palace, and full support from the WEDZ and JHU, the museum has hosted 139 exhibitions, published 129 art books, organized 64 Tanghu Lectures, conducted 211 public education activities for the community, and amassed a collection of 385 works by representative artists from within and outside Hubei Province. (By Wang Fan)