CWU Art School Displays Outstanding Graduation Designs

The Art School of China Women's University (CWU) opened an exhibition for its graduates, and displayed their best design work on May 10. Wang Lian, CWU vice-president; Hou Dianmu, director of the CWU Teaching Affairs Office; and, Wang Lu, dean of the CWU Art School participated in the event.

The organizers specially invited Liu Jude and Zhang Geming, professors from the Academy of Arts and Design at Tsinghua University; Tian Hui, dean of the Plastic Arts Department at Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology; Tang Dafeng, chief designer of architecture firm Everything In Nothing Studio (EINS); and, Cao Feng, founder of advertising company Molecule.

With the theme of "Interplay", the organizers hoped that the inventive designs could make people's life more comfortable and convenient. Sub-titled "Moving at Ease, Poetic Spaces, and Women's Issues", students from the dress design, environmental design, and visual communication design faculty respectively produced their graduating portfolios catering for exercise, poetic living spaces, and gender traits.

The displayed design pieces were the product of students' professional knowledge, and the teachers' achievements during the past four years. They also expressed the CWU Art School's principle of talents cultivation, namely, integrating femininity into professional features, putting emphasis on teaching practices, and developing intellectual and elegantly applied female talents.

After the opening ceremony, the organizers held a seminar on the system construction of the applied talents' innovation ability. During the seminar, special guests fully affirmed CWU Art School's achievements in talent cultivation, and put forward some constructive suggestions and opinions on the school's development.

(Source: China Women's University/Translated and edited by Gender Study Network)