Registration for three Art Courses this spring

March 07, 2026 Upcoming

The University Arts Centre is pleased to announce the opening of registration for three Art Courses this spring (March–April). The courses span Contemporary Art Practice, Ceramics, and Improvisational Theatre, offering diverse entry points into artistic exploration and creation.

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Through?contemporary art practice, participants will be guided to engage critically with the contemporary world by visiting exhibitions, and producing works?through hands-on creative processes. The ceramics course leads students through the complete cycle of making?- from shaping and trimming to glazing and kiln firing. The improvisational theatre course focuses on core practices such as “Say Yes,” character exploration, and the “One Person, One Story” format, culminating in a final in-class presentation.?Enrollment is limited. We encourage interested students to register early.

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Course Information & Schedule

Registration

*These three courses qualify as CEC1020 large-scale practical activities. Participants who successfully register and attend six or more classes in each course are eligible to receive CEC certification for each course.

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The 22nd Art Courses

Theme:?Art Path for You

Speaker: XUE?Feng

Course Schedule

Language: Chinese

Enrollment Limit: 80 participants

Assessment: Attendance + At Least One Individual Artwork

About the Speaker

XUE?Feng was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from the China Academy of Art and currently lives and works in Shenzhen. His artistic practice moves from two-dimensional painting into multidimensional spatial forms. Grounded in long-term research into geography, locality, history, and the humanities, his work integrates reflections on nature, artificial systems, materiality, spirituality, and belief.

Through these layered investigations, XUE?constructs interactive relationships between contemporary cities and art, as well as between local contexts and artistic practice, producing new landscape imaginaries and alternative modes of artistic narration.

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The 23rd Art Courses

Theme:?Hands In Clay?(Ceramics Course)

Speaker: ZHOU Yuan (Butter Z.)

Course Schedule

Language: Chinese & English

Enrollment?Limit: 50 participants

Venue: Covered Area behind TC101 SPACE

Assessment: Attendance + At Least One Individual Artwork

About the Speaker

ZHOU?Yuan (Butter Z.) was born in Pujiang, Zhejiang Province, and currently lives and works in Shenzhen. He graduated from Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London. As an experienced ceramic artist, he has been deeply engaged in both artistic practice and teaching for over a decade.

His work balances functionality and artistic expression, tradition and contemporaneity, aesthetics and conceptual thinking. Known for his attentive and patient teaching style, ZHOU?emphasises individualized guidance, encouraging students to explore their own creative potential and to understand the warmth, tactility, and depth of ceramics through hands-on practice.

Centred on ceramics, his artistic practice also extends across multiple media, including painting, wood sculpture, installation, and performance art. His work resists fixed definitions, often employing exaggerated visual language and a strong personal sensibility to convey an abundant vitality. ZHOU?views artistic creation as the materialisation of the subconscious, while emphasising sustained practice and deep dialogue with diverse materials to achieve a state of mutual transformation between mind and matter.

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The 24th Art Courses

Theme: Improvisational Theatre

Speaker: Christoph YEW

Course Schedule

Language: Chinese & English

Enrollment Limit: 60 participants

Venue: Time Space Capsule Black Box Theatre

Assessment: Attendance + Final Performance

About the Speaker

Christoph YEW?is an international improvisational arts consultant for YouYiSi Improv Art, an author on improvisational leadership, and a dual master’s degree holder in musicology. As a pioneer of improvisational theatre culture in China, he is also the founder of Changsha Improvisation Culture and an active jazz musician.

Christoph has performed and taught extensively across cities including Wuzhen, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Manila, and Kyoto, and is recognised as a leading figure in international improvisational performance. With over ten years of experience, he has led more than 1,000 performances and delivered over 3,000 hours of bilingual (Chinese–English) improvisational theatre workshops and team-building programmes. His work has contributed to the incubation and development of multiple Chinese–English improvisational theatre groups.

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