{"id":7607,"date":"2025-06-13T09:49:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waisnj.com\/?p=7607"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:18:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T02:18:04","slug":"zero-experience-to-ual-a-deep-dive-into-our-art-pathway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.waisnj.com\/en\/zero-experience-to-ual-a-deep-dive-into-our-art-pathway\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero Experience to UAL! A deep dive into our art pathway"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>WASNJ\uff5cZero Experience to UAL! A deep dive into our art pathway<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>It\u2019s exam season again, and when people think of the ever-expanding \u201cart-exam army\u201d, most people picture students who \u201caren\u2019t academically strong turning to art\u201d and \u201csitting on tiny stools drawing for ten-hour stretches\u201d under gruelling conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Yet take Michelle, one of Wycombe Abbey School Nanjing\u2019s inaugural graduates on an international art track: she\u2019s an all-A student in maths and economics, who has never endured harsh technical art drills, and as a child burst into tears when first attempting sketching. Nonetheless, she still secured undergraduate offers in Illustration and Graphic Design from the world-leading University of the Arts London.<\/p>\n<p>In China\u2019s traditional art-exam system\u2014where without years of intense repetition in sketching, colour and life drawing, entry to top academies such as the Central Academy of Fine Arts or Tsinghua Academy is deemed a pipe dream\u2014this is unimaginable.<\/p>\n<p>In this Graduate Series, we follow Michelle\u2019s art journey at Wycombe Abbey School Nanjing, compare domestic and overseas art education, and explore how institutions like UAL select and cultivate talent, offering practical insights for families and students with similar ambitions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/2XyYoepdZ5lplWcc14eEag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Graduate Series, we follow Michelle\u2019s art journey at Wycombe Abbey School Nanjing, compare domestic and overseas art education, and explore how institutions like UAL select and cultivate talent, offering practical insights for families and students with similar ambitions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/test.waisnj.com\/en\/zero-experience-to-ual-a-deep-dive-into-our-art-pathway\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","infinite-scroll-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/test.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7624,"href":"https:\/\/test.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions\/7624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}