Dough figurines used to be popular children’s toys in Taiwan and were commonly seen in temple fairs and festivals in the early years. Traditionally made from sticky rice powders and flours, they were edible toys with interesting character designs. The characters were often taken from legends and fairy tales, so dough figurines were also used as offerings during ceremonies and rites. With the advances in technology, more alternative clays such as resin clay, paper clay, super light clay, wood clay, brick clay, and stone clay have become available. Meanwhile multiple accessories and diverse skills, such as molding, kneading, rubbing, pinching and pasting, have also been applied to modern production. The traditional skill has been transformed into a clay art today.

This exhibition at National Center for Traditional Arts at Yi-Lan, scheduled to close on June 20, 2012, presents the creations of Ms. .....

The ceramics artist Shih Chi-yao used Feldspar (Shino) glaze as the foundation and fired over 300 courses of kiln during the process. He accumulated more than 8,000 pieces of testing plates mixing different glazes, temporarily naming them "Kokuyou" and "Aigoromo." This solo exhibition, held at Yingge Ceramics Museum in New Taipei City until June 17, 2012, aims to express the important, complementary, and inseparable relationship between glaze colors and shapes. Through the changes of shapes and lines, .....

Artist Huang Ming-Chang was born in Hualian County. In 1977, he entered Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris to pursue advanced studies and returned to Taiwan in 1985. Huang transformed his training in the solid traditional technique of European painting to take a natural scene and make it into an object of reverent exploration. He unleashed his true feelings about sea, flowers, and green rice fields through his paintings. The exhibition, which will continue at Taipei Fine Arts Museum until June 17, 2012, is Huang’s most significant solo exhibition in the past 20 years. It features the series of "Gazing Out," .....

In order to promote publishing and sharing biodiversity information within Asia for regional biodiversity conservation, an Asia-Pacific workshop on the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT2) will be conducted at Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute from June 25 to 27, 2012. The training courses include using GBIF tools to publish biodiversity data, installing and managing IPT2, and how to submit data papers. For the node managers, information managers, and biodiversity scientists from Asian countries who are invited to attend the workshop, the courses will be conducted in English. The courses may also be given in Chinese if enough local database managers and scientists register to attend. For detailed information on the workshop, .....

Since ancient times, people love to display curios, antiques or artifacts in their hallways or studies as decorations to create an elegant atmosphere for their home. This exhibition at National Center for Traditional Arts at Yi-Lan displays a dazzling and varied assortment of treasures such as bonsai (plantings in low-sided pots), baskets, screens, gold, jades, ivories, stones, snuff bottles, seals, the Four Treasures of the Study (ink brush, ink stick, ink stone and rice paper), and .....