Two. Introduction to Suzhou Vocational College of Arts and Crafts Suzhou Vocational College of Arts and Crafts is the first higher vocational college of art design established in China. Its predecessor was Suzhou College of Arts and Crafts, which was founded in August 2008 1958. From 65438 to 0999, Suzhou Arts and Crafts School and Suzhou Light Industry Workers College jointly established Suzhou Arts and Crafts Vocational and Technical College, which became the first independent art design vocational college in China. In 2006, the college achieved excellent results in the evaluation of talent training level in higher vocational colleges, and in 2007, it became the first batch of "Model Higher Vocational Colleges in Jiangsu Province". 20 10 was determined as "the national model higher vocational college construction plan". In 20 14, the construction project of the national key institution of the college won the "excellent" grade in the acceptance of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance.
The college is located on the lakeside of Shihu Lake, an ancient scenic spot in Wu, at the top of the foothills. Its long history and rich culture create a good atmosphere for students' growth. The college campus covers an area of 56 1 mu, with a construction area of nearly 200,000 square meters, more than 400 faculty members and 5,000 students. It has two series of modern art design and traditional arts and crafts 18 majors and 54 small majors, forming a professional pattern of multidisciplinary integration, traditional arts and crafts and modern art design. In addition, there are China Institute of Arts and Crafts, the key construction base of vocational education teacher training of the Ministry of Education, the continuing education base of arts and crafts professionals in Jiangsu Province, the National Vocational Skills Appraisal Institute of Art Design and Technology in Jiangsu Province, and the Taohuawu Woodcut New Year Pictures Society in Suzhou. The training center of the college has a building area of 45,800 square meters and 87 studios, including 2 national training bases, 5 provincial training bases and provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers 1.
Focusing on the goal of cultivating "high-quality skilled arts and crafts talents with both ability and political integrity", the college has continuously deepened the reform of education and teaching, built a service-oriented professional teaching system, carried out innovative practice of "studio system" talent training mode, and actively served the local modern service industry and cultural and creative industries. Guided by cooperative employment, taking cooperative education as the model and aiming at cooperative development, we will actively explore a new mechanism of school-enterprise cooperation of "four links interaction, four in one, four in one". Based on tradition and modernity, we are committed to the protection and inheritance of Suzhou traditional culture and folk crafts, and push the inheritance and development of Suzhou Taohuawu woodcut New Year pictures, an intangible cultural heritage, to a new stage. Carrying the cultural mission and embodying the responsibility. Through the platform of "Arts and Crafts Inheritance and Innovation Experimental Zone" and world crafts council (Asia-Pacific Branch) China Research Camp, we will explore, inherit and develop intangible heritages such as Taohuawu woodcut New Year pictures, Suzhou embroidery and Leishan Miao people. The college was named as the first batch of "Jiangsu Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Base"; The teaching resource library of "Hundred Works Record: Non-genetic Inheritance and Innovation of Arts and Crafts in China" is supported by the Ministry of Education. At present, there are 24 cooperative units 14 1 and 24 settled enterprises in the institute.