About us
Focusing on cultivate innovative and practical talents on creation and design, School of Jewelry and Jade Carvings which is the development frontier of Nan Yang Normal University adopts actively to the need of the national higher education’s development and transformation strategy and regional economic and society development.
The faculty team of School of School of Jewelry and Jade Carvings has 23 members, including 6 professors or associate professors, 1 doctor, 14 masters. Besides, there are also 1 external national craft art master and 3 provincial craft art masters.
The School has five study directions, including Craft Art(Jade Carving), Gemology and Materials Technology, Apparel Design and Engineering and Sculpture which are undergraduate program, and Jewelry Arts and Appraisal which is specialty program. Craft Art (Jade Carving), Sculpture, and Jewelry Arts and Appraisal are arts programs while Gemology and Materials Technology and Apparel Design and Engineering are engineering programs.
The School has the jade carving training rooms, three-dimensional sculpture lab, graphic workstation, cultural industrial brand planning lab, gemstone appraisal and testing lab, jade carving master studio, sculpture studio, clothing technology training room, line drawing studio, copying room, art gallery of jewelry and jade carving. Meanwhile, it has co-founded practice bases with some enterprises, which has provided some favorable support with graduates’ employment and entrepreneurship.
Faculties
The faculty team ofSchoolofJewelryand Jade Carvings has 23 members, including 6 professors or associate professors, 1 doctor, 14 masters. Besides, there are also 1 external national craft art master and 3 provincial craft art masters. This is a powerful team with rational structure, abundant teaching experience and strong academic research ability.
Professor ZHU Xiaohong who has devoted to the research of Chinese national paper-cut and national arts for many years has been funded by Henan Provincial Department of Education and systemized the folk paper-cut with Nanyang local cultural characteristics. Her research achievement has filled the gap of Chinese paper-cut’s geographical classification. And her paper-cut works has been presented to UNESCO and HongKong Cultural Department by Nanyang government.
Full-time teachers
ZHU Xiaohong: Professor Female
Research Areas: Craft Art
HUA Xuan: Associate Professor Male
Research Areas: Fine Arts
YANG Jinou: Associate Professor Male
Research Areas: Fine Arts
ZHOU Ziqiang: Associate Professor Male
Research Areas: Sculpture
YUE Zilong: Lecturer Male
Research Areas: Gemstone and Jade
LIU Ying: Lecturer Female
Research Areas: Apparel Design and Engineering
The School introduces actively some excellent talents who have strong professional ability, high comprehensive quality and long term first-line work, invites periodically some famous artists, design expert and leading entrepreneurs to make academic or teaching exchanges, and employs some famous teachers and technical experts to be part-time teachers.
Brief Introduction to Some Part-time Teachers
WU Yingwen, the part-time professor of School of Jade Jewelry, national jade carving master, Chinese craft art master, Chinese folk craft artist. He is skilled in crystal carving and called as “the first people of crystal” in this industry. He graduated from the Sculpture Department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts who was born in a jade carving family in 1954. At present, he is the chief designer of “JIN BAO ZHAI”. His works have won many prizes, and one of which has been used as national gift to Russian President Putin.
WU Yuanquan, the part-time professor ofSchoolofJade Jewelry, Chinese craft art master, the Deputy Director of Chinese Gemological Association Jade Committee. His works have won many national prizes.
XU Ming, the part-time professor ofSchoolofJade Jewelry, the national jade carving master, the provincial craft art master. He is skilled in animal carving, and his works have unique style.
WANG Zhi, the part-time professor ofSchoolofJade Jewelry, the provincial jade carving master, who is skilled in the design and production of jade carving of flowers and birds.
Teaching and Academic Achievement
According to the society demand, in order to cultivate innovative and practical talents on creation and design, School of Jade Jewelry strengthens the reformation and exploration on the specialty talent training model, whose curriculum structural system is “platform of discipline basis + platform of specialized education +platform of practical education”, adopted “3+1”model(3 means three years’ studying on campus and 1 means one year’s internship in enterprises).Meanwhile, combining with the local economic development, it sets up some programs such as Jade Jewelry, Sculpture crafts, and Jade Jewelry Design. On the purpose of enhancing the overall quality of students and cultivating students’ practical ability, the School deepens the reform of credit system, and admits students to have selection right on curriculum on the base of completing required courses and credits.
Practice courses which ensure the applied professional students to master their professional skills basically are made up of core curricula and graduation works (design). The proportion of practice courses period to total period of specialized courses has been increased, which is about 80%. Reforming the practical teaching model such as project teaching and case teaching, the School combines practice platform on campus and off campus, adopts the joint guidance of tutors on campus and teachers in enterprises, which provides favorable conditions for students to comprehensively master specialized practical skills.
Off-campus Practice is significant method of cultivating students’ comprehensive practice ability and application ability, including some practice teaching such as course probation, artistic sketch, artistic observation, production practice, post practice and graduation practice. The School increases the credit proportion of practice off-campus and makes the proportion of practice course to total course up to more than 45%. Meanwhile, the School actively explores pattern of school-enterprise joint school-running, and cooperates with enterprises through “order-type” cultivation, post practice, production practice and academic research.
The School has the jade carving training room, three-dimensional sculpture lab, graphic workstation, cultural industrial brand planning lab, gemstone identification and testing lab, jade carving master studio, sculpture studio, clothing technology training room, line drawing studio, copying room, art gallery of jewelry and jade carving. Meanwhile, it has co-founded practice bases with some enterprises, which has provided some favorable support with graduates’ employment and entrepreneurship.
In order to meet the need of both national and regional development of economy and society, the School focuses on the cultivation of innovative and practical talents on creation and design, and enhances the specialty construction of Craft Art (jade carving). It has developed currently a characteristic specialty with significant advantages and distinct professional emphasis which has certain influence in and outside the province.
Some professional teachers and external teachers has won a number of prizes in the national or provincial contests of Craft Art, and produced a number of excellent academic achievement which embody its strength and advantages.
About Departments
Department of Arts & Crafts (Jade Carving)
Department of Arts & Crafts (Jade Carving) was established at 2008, which aims to cultivate the innovative practical talents with basic theory and skills of Craft Art, humanistic and scientific accomplishment, strong ability of specialty, practice, innovation, learning and social adaption, and modern concepts. The graduates could engage in the design, production and research of traditional and modern arts crafts in companies, colleges or other related institutions.
This department has outstanding faculties, which are the base of the department’s stability and development. There are 1 professor, 1 associate professor, 1 doctor, 2 masters, 1 national arts crafts master, 1 national jade carving master, 1 provincial jade carving master and 1 senior artist and craftsman. The main courses have Sketch, Clay Sculpture, Jade Pendant Production, Jade Ware Production, Jade Flowers and Birds Moulding, Jade Landscape Moulding, Jade Flowers and Birds Production, Jade Landscape Production, Line Drawing, Traditional Jade Moulding, Introduction of Arts, Jade Carving Appreciation, History of Chinese Arts & Crafts and Arts Technique Theory.
The department has many some labs and training rooms, including three jade carving training rooms, two rough jade carving training rooms, two fine jade carving training rooms, three line drawing studios, two line drawing rooms, one three- dimensional sculpture photograph lab, one three- dimensional sculpture technique lab. Meanwhile, the department emphasizes the combination of teaching and practice, and sets up some practice bases with some entrepreneurs.
Department of Gemology and Materials Technology
Department of Gemology and Materials Technology was set up in 2015, which aims to cultivate senior talents with some knowledge of natural science and humanities, the basic theory of appraisal, design and production technology of gemstone, noble metal and jewelry. The graduates could engage in analysis, development, design, production, management, business trade and teaching in gemstone materials industry.
Main course are Higher Mathematics, College Physics, College Chemistry, Design Sketch, Design Color, Basic Pattern, Gemology, Geological Principle, Decoration Sculpture, Jewelry Drawing, Crystallography and Mineralogy, The Overview of Jewelry, Computer-aided Gemstone Design, Wax Carving and Casting, History of Chinese and Foreign Arts & Crafts, Gem Mounting Technology and other related courses.
The department has some labs and training rooms, including jewelry crafts training rooms, gemstone crafts training rooms, jewelry drawing labs, jewelry appraisal labs, cultural industrial brand planning labs, three-dimensional moulding labs.
Department of Jewelry Arts and Appraisal
Department of Jewelry Arts and Appraisal was set up in 2015, which aims to cultivate the applied talents with specialty design theory, high artistic cultivation and the ability of jewelry’s crafts design and production. The graduates could engage in the work of gemstone’s appraisal and marketing.
The main courses are Design Sketch, Design Color, Geological Principle, Line Drawing, Jewelry Drawing, Theory of Line Arts Techniques and Skills, History of Chinese and Foreign Arts & Crafts, The Overview of Jewelry, Computer-aided Gemstone Design, The Principle and Method of Gemstone Appraisal, The Foundation of Gemstone Crafts, Jade Carving Crafts, The Production of Jade Pendant, Etiquette for Public Relations and Business Negotiation, Specialized Foreign Language, Jewelry Brand Planning and some other related courses.
The department has some labs and training rooms including jewelry crafts training rooms, gemstone crafts training room, jewelry and drawing labs, jewelry appraisal labs, industrial brand planning training rooms and three-dimensional moulding labs.
Department of Apparel Design and Engineering
Department of Apparel Design and Engineering was set up in 2011 which was named as Department of Artistic Design (Apparel Design and Engineering Program). The department recruits arts and sciences students.
Widening specialty caliber and soliding the basis of apparel design and engineering, the department aims to cultivate students with good artistic foundation in garment industry, comprehensive art quality and high practical ability. The graduates could hold modern concepts and engage in the work of design, creation, teaching and research in the field of culture, arts, and garment.
The department has 136 undergraduates and 7 full-time teachers. It also has 5 training rooms, including 2 garment crafts training room, 1 computer design training room, 1 specialized multi-media classroom, 1 clothing showroom.
Main course are Women’s Dress Design, Menswear Design, Garment Structure Design, Garment Plating and Grading, Basic Fashion Technology, Fashion CAD, Introduction of Clothing, Chinese and Foreign Fashion History, Fashion Marketing, Garment Production Management and some other related courses.
The students will be awarded Bachelor’s Engineering who can get 164 required credit. And the department sets up 5 specialized practice bases in some provinces, which has developed characteristic specialty with advantageous feature and influence inside and outside of the province.
Department of Sculpture
Department of Sculpture was set up in 2006, which aims to cultivate sculpture talents who could engage in the work of creation, design, teaching and research in the field of culture,art, urban construction, landscape architecture, jade carving and some other related institutions.
Department of Sculpture has 5 full-time teachers, including 1 associate professor, 4 lecturers, who have won many prizes at all level contests. Main courses are Clay Sculpture, Speed Carving, Computer-based Graphic Design, Computer Three-dimensional Figure Design, Jade Carving Production, Figure Model, Introduction to Art, Anthropotomy, Chinese and Foreign Sculpture History.
The department has sculpture studios, sculpture research rooms and jade carving labs, and also co-founds three practice bases with some enterprises.
Contact us
Executive Office Tel: 86-377-63516996
Teaching Affair Office Tel: 0086-377-63516659
