Everspring Cultural Foundation donated 1 million yuan and the opening ceremony of the pottery classroom.

“New Taipei City News” The historical buildings in Zhongshan Elementary School in Banqiao District, New Taipei City, donated 1 million yuan by Everspring Cultural Foundation to build pottery classrooms and multi-functional art classrooms. On June 24, the principal of Zhongshan Elementary School Wang Jianwang, Everspring Cultural Foundation Chairman Huang Ziliang, Legislative Councilor Luo Zhizheng, New Taipei City Councilor Liu Meifang, Parent President Zhou Xiuying and other distinguished guests jointly unveiled the official opening, so that not only Zhongshan Elementary School students can learn pottery courses , At the same time, the New Taipei City Teachers’ Ceramics Community was established to promote ceramics courses.

The historical building in Zhongshan Elementary School was originally the truss structure of Ronggong’s repair workshop in Fuzhou, Banqiao. It was built in 1956. Truss assembly construction system. After the construction of Shimen Reservoir is completed, the aluminum workshop will be dismantled and transported to Ronggong Xindian base for assembly. In November 1969, it moved to the North Factory of the Old Machinery Repair General Factory in Banqiao Base. On December 20, 2011, the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the New Taipei City Government registered the 4 factory buildings as historical buildings. In 2012, the Ministry of Construction and Construction held a meeting and decided to repair the trusses of Building A and reorganize it on the north side of the school site, and plan it into two classrooms at the same time.

Wang Jianwang, the principal of Zhongshan Elementary School, attaches great importance to art courses. He has promoted artistic talent dance classes, palm opera troupes, lion and drum teams, Linjia Garden small tour guide teams, etc. in the school, and won the Ministry of Education Art Contribution Award for outstanding schools. Under the recommendation of artist Chen Zhifen, director of the Yunchen Cultural Foundation, he personally briefed the chairman Huang Ziliang, and was affirmed by the board of directors of the Everspring Cultural Foundation. Through the sponsorship of NT$1 million, the purchase of pottery classroom equipment, the school thanked the foundation Strong sponsorship, named “Everspring Pottery Classroom”. At the same time, another art education room has been transformed into a multi-functional art classroom, which can also be used as a performing arts course.

Everspring Cultural Foundation was established in the 1990s. The purpose of the foundation is to give back to the society, improve the cultural and artistic literacy of Taiwanese people, cultivate outstanding talents, promote international cultural exchanges, and support public welfare undertakings, such as sponsoring music and rhythm classes for hearing-impaired children, And expressive art therapy treatment subsidy and National Taiwan University of Arts old dormitory reconstruction art settlement project, etc. Huang Ziliang, chairman of the board, said: The foundation pays special attention to the sponsorship of culture, art, and disadvantaged students, and hopes that through the donation of the foundation, the society will become better and better.

In addition to the unveiling ceremony, guests were invited to put their handprints on the disk with glaze and sign it. After the work was fired in the kiln, it will be installed in the pottery classroom as a commemoration. The on-site art teacher Lu Renhui led the students to conduct a cross-disciplinary course on the theme of the Lin Family Garden’s leaky windows. The shapes of the Lin’s Garden’s butterfly leaky windows, bat leaky windows, etc. were engraved on ceramic plates, and then glazed and fired in an electric kiln to create works , can be used as paperweights and other small items for students. The students who participated in the course said: “It’s amazing. After the clay is fired, the color is different from what I imagined!” The student who was kneading the clay said happily: “The clay is so fun, you can follow your own ideas. Kneading and making a good work for my mother.”

Lu Renhui said: “Due to the high technical threshold for ceramics teaching, it is difficult for schools to implement courses. I thank the school for planning ceramics classrooms, and I also thank Everspring Cultural Foundation for donating ceramics equipment so that students can learn ceramics courses.” The school is also a school convened by the New Taipei City National Education Counseling Group Elementary School Art Field Group. Because of the Everspring Ceramics Classroom, the New Taipei City Ceramics Community was also established to allow teachers in New Taipei City to learn ceramics teaching together and promote ceramics courses.