A website to show its students’ recent and current graduation projects was launched by Tsinghua University’s Academy of Arts and Design on June 12.
Peng Gang, vice-president of Tsinghua University addresses the opening ceremony of the exhibition on June 12.
A total of 282 undergraduates and 167 postgraduates from the Academy of Arts and Design brought over 1,000 works to the online exhibition.
These students braved many difficulties brought by the COVID-19 pandemic to create works with the instruction of their supervisors.
One of the graduation projects of Tsinghua’s art and design majors displayed on the website.
Unlike brick-and-mortar showrooms where students simply install their works, the online venue allows them to curate a mini solo show of their creations in a virtual space of 100 square meters each and build a 5-km-long gallery that provides visitors with diverse interactive experiences including a chance to learn about the students by their profiles.
The students can arrange their projects and design the lighting and interactive functions of their shows.
Their works convey concerns about social issues such as the aging society and the reclamation of abandoned industrial sites and health, with a special focus on problems emerging during the pandemic.
It is a valuable experience for the students, said Peng Gang, vice-president of Tsinghua University at the opening. He also praised the faculty and students who held fast to their posts and remained dedicated to their art despite various challenges during the pandemic.
Lu Xiaobo, dean of Tsinghua University’s Academy of Arts and Design makes a speech at the event on June 12.
Lu Xiaobo, dean of the academy, said he was pleased to see that many projects in the exhibition pay attention to life and health and nature from a global perspective.
He also called on the public to appreciate the sense of responsibility, as well as the talents and imagination, of the art and design majors through their displayed projects.
Yang Dongjiang, vice-dean of the academy presides over the event on June 12.
The opening ceremony was live-streamed and chaired by Yang Dongjiang, vice-dean of the academy.
June is usually the time when art academies stage exhibitions of their majors' graduation projects. But the pandemic has kept colleges shut down and students at home for months since the winter break, disrupting the traditional convention. The pandemic did not, however, impede the students’ artistic creativity.
People can visit exhibition.ad.tsinghua.edu.cn to explore the brilliance of the graduates’ projects.
