The Muses Art Academy carries the mission of an art education within a culture that advocates a dialogue, a mutual understanding, and an interaction between the arts of the East and West. The school to be founded will be the FIRST art college in the US in which both East and West arts will be taught and studied systematically. We choose LA and Southern California neighborhood as a location to found our new school with our awareness that a multicultural milieu of this region is particularly suitable for nurturing a culture that can facilitate an interaction, even a “cross-breeding” of different art forms between East and West. We will recruit 1) students from East Asian countries to study the Western art, 2) domestic students and other international students (other than East Asian, particularly from Euro-American regions) to study the Chinese and Asian art. Meanwhile, we will recruit distinguished professors and renewed artists to teach the Eastern and Western art. In addition, our college will organize various series of art festivals, lectures, talks, workshops, and particularly East-West Forum on regular basis. The purpose of our artistic activities is to promote a mutual recognition and reciprocal appreciation between Eastern and Western arts on campus. In our vision, Eastern and Western arts are not just taught and studied in parallel/separate professional disciplines, and through juxtaposed curricula. Our mission is to bring these two distinct artistic traditions together, in an intimate contact, interaction, connection and conversation. The integration of Eastern and Western arts will be reinforced not only through our curriculum designs but also through our regular campus events, workshops, and, East-West Forum in particular. Through these organized activities, professors, teachers, students and artists from different disciplines and artistic traditions can share a common ground and appreciate respective values each other. Last but not least, we will mobilize students to organize various kinds of their own clubs, with our guidance to direct their interests in communications between different art disciplines and traditions.
After founding our institute, at the initial stage our focus will be to offer master degrees and high school education program. After these programs get done, we will proceed to work on bachelor’s and doctor’s degrees.