Surfing Cheng Da’s site, I discovered that there is an art festival going on, and figured I should post my photos of art at Cheng Da. Art on college campuses can be hit or miss (my sculpture prof. in college said she had to artfully dodge when asked what she thought of the sculptures decorating our campus after her initial interview), but there are some nice pieces at Cheng Da .
This is a doughnut-shaped abacus that is outside the business building (if my memory is correct and things haven’t changed). Abaci are still used by kids in Taiwan and remind me of my experience trying to teach elementary students math with manipulatives– if we’d only used abaci, I could have avoided a veritable hail storm of pennies and base ten blocks…
This sculpture was a bit small in scale next to its surroundings, but I had fun with its reflections anyway…
This blog has more recent postings of art at NCKU. While it is in Chinese, the pictures show some fun murals have been added to the landscape since I was there.
Sorry that I didn’t record titles and artist names to go along with the photographs. If anyone can enlighten me on them, I’ll gladly add them to this post.
Becoming Taiwanese 
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