The Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) aims to foster new perspectives and expertise of both practical and theoretical studies on Chinese art, design and visual culture in an international context.
The Centre for Chinese Visual Arts is hosted by Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD), Birmingham City University. CCVA constructs an academic network, the CCVA International Partnership, in particular, two leading art institutions in China, Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (CAFA) and China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou (CAA), for scholars, educators, artists and designers, from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the UK, by bringing their expertise together to share, understand and innovate. It encourages and develops international and interdisciplinary collaborative research projects of Chinese visual arts, and offers academic support and joint supervision within the CCVA International Partnerships for postgraduate and research degree studies. Activities include curating exhibitions, organising conferences and creating other opportunities for scholarly exchange and postdoctoral research. CCVA draws particularly on its MPhil and PhD research programmes, with both full-time and distance learning mode.
