Taipei National University of the Arts

Not to be confused with National Taiwan University of Arts.
Taipei National University of the Arts
Established 1982 (as National Institute of the Arts)
2001 (as TNUA)
Type Public
President Yang, Chi-Wen
Location Taipei, Taiwan
Website http://www.tnua.edu.tw/

The Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA; Chinese: 國立臺北藝術大學; pinyin: Guólì Táiběi Yìshù Dàxué) is a national university in Guandu, Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan.

History

Department of Music, old building

The National Institute of the Arts (國立藝術學院) was founded in 1982 as an institute of higher learning for the arts. The institute was housed in Luzhou, Taipei County (now New Taipei City), from 1985 until its move in 1991 to its permanent campus in Kuandu, Taipei City. The buildings are designed in a neo-Chinese classical style and house state-of-the-art technology. The Institute was renamed Taipei National University of the Arts in 2001.

Organization

School of Music

School of Fine Arts

School of Theatre Arts

School of Dance

School of Film and New Media

School of Culture Resources

Campus

Aside from the colleges and departments, the university houses the state-of-the-art Music Hall, the Performing Arts Center, including a theater hall and a dance recital hall, the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, a library, an Olympic-size swimming pool, the Center for the Study of Traditional Arts, a computer center, and the Center for the Study of Art and Technology.

Festivals organized by TNUA or using its campus include the Guandu Arts Festival and the Guandu Flower Festival (Guandu Flower Art Festival).

International Cooperation

Asia
 Republic of China

 Mainland China

 Japan

 Republic of Korea

 Singapore

  • Lasalle College of the Arts

 Thailand

 Israel

 Philippines


Oceania
 Australia

Europe
 Austria

 Czech Republic

  • Academy of Fine Arts in Prague

 Finland

 France

  • École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
  • École Nationale Superieure d’Art de Bourges
  • French National Museum of Natural History
  • Oriental Cultural Heritage Sites Protection Alliance

 Germany

 Poland

  • Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawiei
  • Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna im. Leona Schillera w Łodzi/ PWSFTviT
  • The Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy

 Russia

 United Kingdom


America
 United States

 Canada

Honorary doctors of art

Famous Honorary Doctors of Art from TNUA include cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, composer Shui-Long Ma, choreographer Huai-min Lin, and theatrical set designer Ming-Cho Lee.

See also

External links

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