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Accton Art Foundation

Accton and the National Palace Museum Jointly Promoted "Artful Thinking" 

From 2021, the Accton Arts Foundation hopes to return to the essence of bringing people and art closer through its mission of promoting arts and culture education. In recent years, the concept of "bringing art into everyday life" has been widely discussed and implemented in art museums and educational settings.

In response to this theme, Accton Arts Foundation launched small-scale exhibitions entitled "What's Art?" and "Why Art?", urging the public to ponder such questions as what kind of creations can be called art, what kind of identity and profession counts as an "artist," why art has become so popular in recent years, and why art can be used as a tool for training us to think.

Based on feedback from these exhibitions, the foundation has come to understand that it is not that people don't want to get involved with art, but rather that they don't know how to. As a visitor to an exhibition, when one walks into a venue hosting a less familiar subject, one should be asking, "What am I supposed to be seeing? How should I look at this? And after looking at it, what have I got from it?" As promoters of art education, we should be thinking about how we can help visitors find ways of viewing without restricting their imagination.

The foundation also partnered with the National Palace Museum to promote the course "Artful Thinking." For this, the foundation tried to adopt the concept of "Artful Thinking" as proposed by Harvard University Institute of Education as an approach to viewing, designing a curriculum and activities with the National Palace Museum and front-line tour guides to help visitors with viewing exhibitions.

This project has currently developed eight different learning sheets for interactive learning between visitors and tour guides.