- Food: Lunch shall be provided each day of class (8/8-8/11). Those with specific dietary requirements, such as vegetarian options or food allergies, must notify the event organizer during the fee payment process.
- Accommodation: This camp does not provide housing. However, we have partnered with Just Sleep Kaohsiung Zhongzheng to offer a special discount for participants. Rooms are limited; please contact the hotel directly to book your stay. (Please refer to the FAQ page for detailed room booking information.)
- Photography and video rights: Photographs and video recordings will be taken throughout the event for promotional and non-commercial purposes. By completing the registration process, participants consent to be photographed and recorded.
- Video recording and copyrights: To safeguard copyrights and maintain the quality of the program, live streaming, photography, video recording, and audio recording are strictly prohibited without prior authorization.
- Refund requests:
Before and on 7/23: A 10% administrative fee will be deducted from the refund.
7/24-8/7: A 20% administrative fee will be deducted from the refund.
On or after 8/8: Refunds shall not be available.
To apply for a refund, email us at learning@npac-weiwuying.org. - Refunds due to force majeure events: If the event is canceled due to uncontrollable circumstances (e.g., typhoons, earthquakes), refunds shall be given as follows:
Cancelation before the event begins: A full refund shall be issued.
Cancelation during the event: Refunds shall be provided based on the proportion of activities that were not conducted.
Refunds shall be processed by the end of the month following the month in which the event concluded. - The event organizer reserves the right to make any changes necessary to the classes and scheduling based on participants’ needs.
- For inquiries, please contact Ms. CHEN at learning@npac-weiwuying.org.
2026 Weiwuying x Lincoln Center — Aesthetic Education for Teaching Artists, Educators, and Administrators
In 2026, Weiwuying enters a strategic partnership with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to launch its renowned Aesthetic Education program in Taiwan. Led by Jean E. Taylor, Senior Director of the Teaching Artist Program, the LCE team will share 50 years of expertise with local educators. This initiative builds on Lincoln Center's Summer Forum, a premier global gathering for creative practice.
It is a 4-day immersive experience in LCE’s signature inquiry-based approach to Aesthetic Education. The curriculum is tailored to Weiwuying's iconic architecture and pipe organ, offering a cross-disciplinary journey through music, dance, drama, and spatial exploration.Participants will deconstruct LCE's design logic and develop adaptable teaching plans using the Capacities for Imaginative Thinking framework. The program also features a pipe organ performance, integrated with pre-performance engagement and post-performance reflection. We hope this exchange will become a new catalyst for local arts education, expanding creative perspectives and reimagining possibilities in the arts.
Summer Forum
The Summer Forum at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts continues a long-standing tradition of professional development in arts education, rooted in the legacy of the Lincoln Center Institute (now Lincoln Center Education).
Before the pandemic, the Summer Forum served as Lincoln Center's flagship summer program, bringing together teaching artists, educators, school teachers, and arts administrators. Through a range of formats—including aesthetic education, teaching artist practice, inquiry-based facilitation, hands-on workshops, lectures, performance viewings, and international exchange—the program supports participants in using the arts as a tool for learning, critical thinking, and community engagement.
Evolving from the earlier Summer Sessions, the Forum is grounded in the philosophy of Maxine Greene and the pedagogical approach of "thinking like an artist," continuing to shape and expand the practice of arts education today.
More about
Time: 2026/8/8 (Sat.)-8/11 (Tue.) 10:00-17:00 (Lunch & Break 13:00-14:00)
Venue: Weiwuying Rehearsal Studio 1192. Studio 1186
Host: Jean E. TAYLOR (Director, Teaching Artistry Program, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts), alongside her teaching team, including a visual arts teaching artist and a music teaching artist.
Language: English with consecutive Mandarin interpretation.
Who can register and how
Who: Teaching artists, educators, and administrators.
Spots available: Maximum of 30.
Registration dates: 2026/5/15 (Fri.) to 7/31 (Fri.).
Fee: NT$6,000 (includes lunches and a pipe organ performance experience ; does not include accommodations).
Registration procedure: Register on the official website → Make payment → Check
師資陣容
Jean E. Taylor (Senior Director, Teaching Artistry Program, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts)
 |
Jean E. Taylor was a teaching artist for Lincoln Center Education (LCE) for over 25 years. As Senior Director, she works extensively with LCE’s teaching artist faculty, curates Summer Forum - Development Labs for Teaching Artists and Educators, and collaborates on international consultancies. Jean is a recipient of Lincoln Center’s Directors Emeriti Award and represented LCE at the International Teaching Artist Conferences (ITAC) in Oslo, Brisbane, Edinburgh, New York City, Seoul, and Auckland. LCE and AHAS (Archive for Health, Arts and Spirit) are the US Hub for ITAC, part of a global network for change.
Jean teaches Theatrical Clown for The New School College of Performing Arts BFA and MFA programs and The Barrow Group Art Center. As a performer, Jean is developing a series of clownesque pieces, entitled Great Small Moments. The first piece in the series, Stop/Slow premiered in November 2025.
Jean studied clown/movement with Philippe Gaulier, Jacques LeCoq, Ronlin Foreman, Vincent Rouche, David Shiner and Merry Conway, among others. Her approach to theatrical clown has been published in Movement for Actors, Allworth Press. She is a board member for The Maxine Greene Institute for
Aesthetic Education and Social Imagination, and a member of ITAC’s Leadership Committee. Recently, Jean piloted an Intergenerational Co-Mentoring project with co-mentor Zoey Peacock Jones. Together they launched The Office of Kindness, an interactive clown-inspired installation offering whimsy as a remedy for life’s daily dilemmas, in Auckland, NZ in 2024, and brought it to Stockholm for the Inner Development Goal Summit in 2025.
Barbara Ellmann (Lincoln Center Education Teaching Artist – Visual Arts )
 |
Barbara Ellmann has been a teaching artist at Lincoln Center Education (LCE) since 1980 while painting, exhibiting, and creating public art works. Teaching has taken her around the country and the world training artists and teachers in the practice of aesthetic education. She is a museum educator at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and an adjunct professor at Hunter College. She is a freelance consultant for orchestras, theaters, private schools, and arts programs, including New York City's Department of Education.
Among Ellmann's other accomplishments are permanent public artworks that are part of the collection of the city of New York, commissioned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and Cambria Heights Public Library, as well as the city of Summit, NJ. Her paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the country and beyond including the Haslla Art World Museum, Bellevue Art Museum, the Montclair Art Museum, Katonah Art Museum the Parrish Art Museum, and currently at LA Art Museum in Hveragerði, Iceland.
Her work is in numerous corporate and private collections including Peter Norton, Peter J. Sharp Foundation, Leonard Nimoy, Four Seasons Hotel and Resort, Marrakech, Morocco, Haslla Art World Museum, NYU Langone Medical Center, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, LA Art Museum in Iceland, and the United States Embassy, Kampala, Uganda.
Katie Kresek (Lincoln Center Education Teaching Artist – Music )
 |
Katie Kresek is a dynamic performer, creator, and educator defined by versatility and multigenre musical artistry. She is currently the concertmaster and co-orchestrator of Moulin Rouge! The Musical at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Broadway, for which she has received both the 2020 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations and a 2020 Outer Critics Circle Honor for Outstanding Orchestrations. Drawing on an upbringing steeped in classical, folk, musical theatre, pop, and tango, her arrangements blend her vast experience as a performer with an imaginative synthesis of compositional styles.
As a violinist, she has performed on albums with artists including Norah Jones, James Taylor, Paul Simon, and recently with Sarah Jarosz on her album World on the Ground, which won the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Americana Album. Widely known in the arts education community for her energetic and responsive teaching, coaching, and concert hosting work, she has served as teaching artist for Lincoln Center Education, The New York Philharmonic, and many other cultural organizations. She currently maintains a private studio, teaches at Columbia University Teachers College, and is the founder and Director of The Krakauer Institute for Intensive Summer Study - an annual musical retreat named for her late teacher, Barbara Krakauer, that brings musicians of all levels to the South of France for an immersive opportunity to connect with their instrument and personal artistry in a supportive community.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts （LCPA）
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is not only one of the world's leading performing arts centers, but also a long-standing leader in arts education and teaching artistry. Through Lincoln Center Education, its educational arm, the institution advances Aesthetic Education, an approach grounded in the philosophy of Dr. Maxine Greene and centered on direct engagement with works of art, inquiry, reflection, research, and imagination.
Working with educators, teaching artists, emerging artists, students, families, and audiences of all ages, Lincoln Center Education supports the use of the arts as a catalyst for learning, creativity, civic connection, and social imagination. Its faculty of professional Teaching Artists brings carefully designed, arts-based learning experiences into schools, communities, and public learning settings. Through professional development programs, international convenings, school and community partnerships, and initiatives such as Summer Forum and the Kenan Fellowship, Lincoln Center Education has become an international platform for teaching artistry, imaginative learning, and arts education leadership.
Partner Accommodation
Just Sleep - Kaohsiung Zhongzheng
[ Reservation Information ]
Phone: +886-7-972-3565 ext. 8301 / 8304
Email: yb.sales@justsleephotels.com
Please mention "2026 Weiwuying × Lincoln Center Workshop" to receive the participant special rate.
2026 Weiwuying x Lincoln Center — Aesthetic Education for Teaching Artists, Educators, and Administrators
In 2026, Weiwuying enters a strategic partnership with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to launch its renowned Aesthetic Education program in Taiwan. Led by Jean E. Taylor, Senior Director of the Teaching Artist Program, the LCE team will share 50 years of expertise with local educators. This initiative builds on Lincoln Center's Summer Forum, a premier global gathering for creative practice.
It is a 4-day immersive experience in LCE’s signature inquiry-based approach to Aesthetic Education. The curriculum is tailored to Weiwuying's iconic architecture and pipe organ, offering a cross-disciplinary journey through music, dance, drama, and spatial exploration.Participants will deconstruct LCE's design logic and develop adaptable teaching plans using the Capacities for Imaginative Thinking framework. The program also features a pipe organ performance, integrated with pre-performance engagement and post-performance reflection. We hope this exchange will become a new catalyst for local arts education, expanding creative perspectives and reimagining possibilities in the arts.
Summer Forum
The Summer Forum at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts continues a long-standing tradition of professional development in arts education, rooted in the legacy of the Lincoln Center Institute (now Lincoln Center Education).
Before the pandemic, the Summer Forum served as Lincoln Center's flagship summer program, bringing together teaching artists, educators, school teachers, and arts administrators. Through a range of formats—including aesthetic education, teaching artist practice, inquiry-based facilitation, hands-on workshops, lectures, performance viewings, and international exchange—the program supports participants in using the arts as a tool for learning, critical thinking, and community engagement.
Evolving from the earlier Summer Sessions, the Forum is grounded in the philosophy of Maxine Greene and the pedagogical approach of "thinking like an artist," continuing to shape and expand the practice of arts education today.
More about
Time: 2026/8/8 (Sat.)-8/11 (Tue.) 10:00-17:00 (Lunch & Break 13:00-14:00)
Venue: Weiwuying Rehearsal Studio 1192. Studio 1186
Host: Jean E. TAYLOR (Director, Teaching Artistry Program, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts), alongside her teaching team, including a visual arts teaching artist and a music teaching artist.
Language: English with consecutive Mandarin interpretation.
Who can register and how
Who: Teaching artists, educators, and administrators.
Spots available: Maximum of 30.
Registration dates: 2026/5/15 (Fri.) to 7/31 (Fri.).
Fee: NT$6,000 (includes lunches and a pipe organ performance experience ; does not include accommodations).
Registration procedure: Register on the official website → Make payment → Check
師資陣容
Jean E. Taylor (Senior Director, Teaching Artistry Program, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts)
|
Jean E. Taylor was a teaching artist for Lincoln Center Education (LCE) for over 25 years. As Senior Director, she works extensively with LCE’s teaching artist faculty, curates Summer Forum - Development Labs for Teaching Artists and Educators, and collaborates on international consultancies. Jean is a recipient of Lincoln Center’s Directors Emeriti Award and represented LCE at the International Teaching Artist Conferences (ITAC) in Oslo, Brisbane, Edinburgh, New York City, Seoul, and Auckland. LCE and AHAS (Archive for Health, Arts and Spirit) are the US Hub for ITAC, part of a global network for change.
Jean teaches Theatrical Clown for The New School College of Performing Arts BFA and MFA programs and The Barrow Group Art Center. As a performer, Jean is developing a series of clownesque pieces, entitled Great Small Moments. The first piece in the series, Stop/Slow premiered in November 2025.
Jean studied clown/movement with Philippe Gaulier, Jacques LeCoq, Ronlin Foreman, Vincent Rouche, David Shiner and Merry Conway, among others. Her approach to theatrical clown has been published in Movement for Actors, Allworth Press. She is a board member for The Maxine Greene Institute for
Aesthetic Education and Social Imagination, and a member of ITAC’s Leadership Committee. Recently, Jean piloted an Intergenerational Co-Mentoring project with co-mentor Zoey Peacock Jones. Together they launched The Office of Kindness, an interactive clown-inspired installation offering whimsy as a remedy for life’s daily dilemmas, in Auckland, NZ in 2024, and brought it to Stockholm for the Inner Development Goal Summit in 2025.
Barbara Ellmann (Lincoln Center Education Teaching Artist – Visual Arts )
|
Barbara Ellmann has been a teaching artist at Lincoln Center Education (LCE) since 1980 while painting, exhibiting, and creating public art works. Teaching has taken her around the country and the world training artists and teachers in the practice of aesthetic education. She is a museum educator at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and an adjunct professor at Hunter College. She is a freelance consultant for orchestras, theaters, private schools, and arts programs, including New York City's Department of Education.
Among Ellmann's other accomplishments are permanent public artworks that are part of the collection of the city of New York, commissioned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and Cambria Heights Public Library, as well as the city of Summit, NJ. Her paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the country and beyond including the Haslla Art World Museum, Bellevue Art Museum, the Montclair Art Museum, Katonah Art Museum the Parrish Art Museum, and currently at LA Art Museum in Hveragerði, Iceland.
Her work is in numerous corporate and private collections including Peter Norton, Peter J. Sharp Foundation, Leonard Nimoy, Four Seasons Hotel and Resort, Marrakech, Morocco, Haslla Art World Museum, NYU Langone Medical Center, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, LA Art Museum in Iceland, and the United States Embassy, Kampala, Uganda.
Katie Kresek (Lincoln Center Education Teaching Artist – Music )
|
Katie Kresek is a dynamic performer, creator, and educator defined by versatility and multigenre musical artistry. She is currently the concertmaster and co-orchestrator of Moulin Rouge! The Musical at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Broadway, for which she has received both the 2020 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations and a 2020 Outer Critics Circle Honor for Outstanding Orchestrations. Drawing on an upbringing steeped in classical, folk, musical theatre, pop, and tango, her arrangements blend her vast experience as a performer with an imaginative synthesis of compositional styles.
As a violinist, she has performed on albums with artists including Norah Jones, James Taylor, Paul Simon, and recently with Sarah Jarosz on her album World on the Ground, which won the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Americana Album. Widely known in the arts education community for her energetic and responsive teaching, coaching, and concert hosting work, she has served as teaching artist for Lincoln Center Education, The New York Philharmonic, and many other cultural organizations. She currently maintains a private studio, teaches at Columbia University Teachers College, and is the founder and Director of The Krakauer Institute for Intensive Summer Study - an annual musical retreat named for her late teacher, Barbara Krakauer, that brings musicians of all levels to the South of France for an immersive opportunity to connect with their instrument and personal artistry in a supportive community.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts （LCPA）
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is not only one of the world's leading performing arts centers, but also a long-standing leader in arts education and teaching artistry. Through Lincoln Center Education, its educational arm, the institution advances Aesthetic Education, an approach grounded in the philosophy of Dr. Maxine Greene and centered on direct engagement with works of art, inquiry, reflection, research, and imagination.
Working with educators, teaching artists, emerging artists, students, families, and audiences of all ages, Lincoln Center Education supports the use of the arts as a catalyst for learning, creativity, civic connection, and social imagination. Its faculty of professional Teaching Artists brings carefully designed, arts-based learning experiences into schools, communities, and public learning settings. Through professional development programs, international convenings, school and community partnerships, and initiatives such as Summer Forum and the Kenan Fellowship, Lincoln Center Education has become an international platform for teaching artistry, imaginative learning, and arts education leadership.
Partner Accommodation
Just Sleep - Kaohsiung Zhongzheng
[ Reservation Information ]
Phone: +886-7-972-3565 ext. 8301 / 8304
Email: yb.sales@justsleephotels.com
Please mention "2026 Weiwuying × Lincoln Center Workshop" to receive the participant special rate.
- Food: Lunch shall be provided each day of class (8/8-8/11). Those with specific dietary requirements, such as vegetarian options or food allergies, must notify the event organizer during the fee payment process.
- Accommodation: This camp does not provide housing. However, we have partnered with Just Sleep Kaohsiung Zhongzheng to offer a special discount for participants. Rooms are limited; please contact the hotel directly to book your stay. (Please refer to the FAQ page for detailed room booking information.)
- Photography and video rights: Photographs and video recordings will be taken throughout the event for promotional and non-commercial purposes. By completing the registration process, participants consent to be photographed and recorded.
- Video recording and copyrights: To safeguard copyrights and maintain the quality of the program, live streaming, photography, video recording, and audio recording are strictly prohibited without prior authorization.
- Refund requests:
Before and on 7/23: A 10% administrative fee will be deducted from the refund.
7/24-8/7: A 20% administrative fee will be deducted from the refund.
On or after 8/8: Refunds shall not be available.
To apply for a refund, email us at learning@npac-weiwuying.org. - Refunds due to force majeure events: If the event is canceled due to uncontrollable circumstances (e.g., typhoons, earthquakes), refunds shall be given as follows:
Cancelation before the event begins: A full refund shall be issued.
Cancelation during the event: Refunds shall be provided based on the proportion of activities that were not conducted.
Refunds shall be processed by the end of the month following the month in which the event concluded. - The event organizer reserves the right to make any changes necessary to the classes and scheduling based on participants’ needs.
- For inquiries, please contact Ms. CHEN at learning@npac-weiwuying.org.
