On May 1, 2024 CAFA Graduation Season was officially unveiled at CAFA Art Museum. Present at the opening ceremony were representatives of professoriate who have instructed graduation creations, graduates and their parents as well as faulty members who have contributed to the graduation season and degree shows.
Gathering at this “grand art museum” at CAFA, we jointly celebrate this festival that belongs to Class of 2024 and accept the social evaluation of CAFA teaching achievements. Together we would like to express our most sincere wishes to Class of 2024: let’s raise the curtain of CAFA Graduation Season, may you walk where your heart leads you and reach where you truly belong!
Gao Hong, Secretary of the Party Committee at CAFA and Lin Mao, President of CAFA, jointly unveiled the opening ceremony of 2024 CAFA Graduation Season
Direction of the Heart
A Speech Delivered at the Opening Ceremony for 2024 CAFA Graduation Season
By Gao Hong, Secretary of the Party Committee at CAFA
During the CAFA Graduation Season which will remain on view for nearly two months, degree shows for Class of 2024 (including undergraduate students and graduate students) will be successively held at CAFA Art Museum. Meanwhile, there are another 10 exhibitions on display on campus while diversified teaching, creative and researching events are going to be continuously held here. We hereby would like to congratulate Class of 2024 who have shown their achievements in art! Also, we would like to salute professoriate who have diligently instructed our students. Our thanks also go to those who have contributed a lot to the Graduation Season! Welcome to all walks of life who come here to participate in CAFA Graduation Season!
2024 CAFA Graduation Season is themed on “Direction of the Heart.”
—We look forward to seeing the art achievements by Class of 2024. We expect to find their love, efforts and pursuits in their works.
—We look forward to the bright future of Class of 2024. We hope to find their ideals, willpower and aspirations in their works.
—We hope that Class of 2024 will be enthusiastic about their future art career. Responding to the epochal call, they are expected to scale new heights in the art field with their passion and persistence in art ideals.
—We jointly yearn for the prospect of building a strong country and achieving China’s national rejuvenation. We hope that in this great historical process, our students will become a new force that contributes to the construction of modern civilization of China and an important force in promoting the integration of fine arts with modern industrial systems and better lives for the people.
We trust that the history of Central Academy of Fine Arts will remember you, Class of 2024, the hope and inspiration you have provided in this wonderful graduation season will be kept in our mind.
The history of the Central Academy of Fine Arts will record us, all faculty members and students will remember the special festival that we have jointly created for our students, teachers and campus.
The Graduation Season as a brand will be kept in the history of the Central Academy of Fine Arts as it is an open, inclusive, exploratory, diversified, warm and enthusiastic graduation season that has been accumulated over nine years.
We will continue to construct “CAFA Graduation Season” with great attention to details, extending our sincere wishes to the graduating students, they will become outstanding artists who can serve the motherland and the people! We hope CAFA will continue to create new miracle along with the continuous growth of our graduates!
Lin Mao, President of CAFA, announced the opening of 2024 CAFA Graduation Season.
Hao Ninghui, Dean of the School of Design and Director of the Academic Affairs Office, presided over the opening ceremony.
Exhibition View of 2024 CAFA Graduation Season
Photo by Liao Yu and Li Di/Publicity Department of CAFA
Text Courtesy of Publicity Department of CAFA, trans. by Sue/Publicity Department of CAFA.
