Taipei National University of the Arts

Not to be confused with National Taiwan University of Arts.

Taipei National University of the Arts

Type	Public
Established	1982 (as National Institute of the Arts) 2001 (as TNUA)
President	Yang, Chi-Wen
Location	Taipei , Taiwan
Website	http://www.tnua.edu.tw/

Taipei National University of the Arts
Traditional Chinese	國立臺北藝術大學
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Guólì Táiběi Yìshù Dàxué

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

History

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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

• Department of Music
• Graduate Institute of Orchestral Instruments
• Graduate Institute of Musicology
• Department of Traditional Music

School of Fine Arts

• Department of Fine Arts
• Graduate Institute of Trans-disciplinary Arts

School of Theatre Arts

• Department of Theatre Arts
• Graduate Institute of Theatre Performance and Playwriting
• Department of Theatrical Design and Technology

School of Dance

• Department of Dance Preparatory Undergraduate Program and B.F.A. Program
• Graduate Institute of Dance

School of Film and New Media

• Department of Filmmaking
• Department of New Media Art
• Department of Animation

School of Culture Resources

• Graduate Institute of Architecture and Cultural Heritage
• Graduate Institute of Arts Administration and Management
• Graduate Institute of Museum Studies
• Graduate Institute of Arts and Humanities Education
• International Master of the Arts Program in Cultural and Creative Industries
• Ph.D Program in Cultural Heritage and Arts Innovation Studies

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 National Tsing Hua University National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Mainland China Beijing Film Academy Shanghai Institute of Visual Art Shanghai Conservatory of Music Shanghai Theatre Academy Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Hangzhou Normal University Central Conservatory of Music Nanjing University of the Arts Hong Kong The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Japan Tokyo University of Arts Ochanomizu University Kyoto University of Art and Design Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts National Museum of Ethnology (Japan) Tama University Republic of Korea Korea National University of Arts Chonnam National University Sungshin Women's University Hongik University Singapore Lasalle College of the Arts Thailand Chulalongkorn University Burapha University Israel Tel Aviv University Philippines Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology Oceania Australia Griffith University Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Edith Cowan University Queensland University of Technology

Europe Austria University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna Konservatorium Wien Universität Mozarteum Salzburg Czech Republic Academy of Fine Arts in Prague Finland Sibelius Academy Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki 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 Hochschule für Musik Detmold Universität Kassel 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 The Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory United Kingdom Northumbria University The Arts University College at Bournemouth University of the Arts London America United States Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey State University of New York University of Michigan The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University Goucher College Chapman University Canada University of British Columbia

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

• List of universities in Taiwan

External links

• 國立臺北藝術大學 (Chinese)
• Taipei National University of the Arts