- 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
※Faculty Update: Please note that, due to scheduling conflicts, Katie KRESEK will be unable to participate in this workshop. We are pleased to announce that Beata MOON will join our faculty for the Music category. |
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
Faculty
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.
Beata Moon (Lincoln Center Education Teaching Artist – Music )
 |
A versatile musician acclaimed for her expressivity and sincerity, Beata Moon continues to reach audiences through her many-faceted roles as composer, pianist, teaching artist, impresario, and activist. An American of Korean descent, Moon was born in North Dakota and raised in Indiana, where she began studying piano at age five. She made her orchestral debut with the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra at age nine and concertized throughout the Midwest, giving recitals and appearing with various orchestras in the region. Moon graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from the Juilliard School, where she was a student of Adele Marcus.
After completing a semester of the Master's Degree Program at Juilliard, she took a break from playing to reflect on what music meant to her personally. It was at this time that she discovered composing and teaching, which resulted in a return to performing. Her collaborations with choreographer, dancer, and fellow Juilliard alum, Henning Rübsam, brought forth many compositions, inspiring her to focus on composing.
The role of the composer as performer and educator is an important one in Moon's life. She is an ardent ambassador for new music and has enjoyed working as a music television host (WNYE, NY, NY) as well as an impresario in her outreach to broader audiences. Moon has worked with youth in homeless shelters and performed in community facilities.
Moon composes music in a variety of genres: orchestral, concert band, solo instrumental, chamber, and vocal, including children's songs. Her four CDs of original music were enthusiastically received by press and public alike and continue to be broadcast throughout the world. Reviewer Andrew Druckenbrod of Gramophone magazine wrote, "Moon writes compelling music that is utterly sincere." She has created and performed interactive concerts for children for Musica Reginae, a classical music collective based in Queens, NY. Moon also works as a teaching artist for Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the New York Philharmonic, and Marquis Studios, where she has led workshops and designed curricula tailored for students and participants of various backgrounds and abilities. She was a recipient of the artist support grant from NYSCA and has written new works for Random Access Music (RAM).
Moon incorporates current social issues to use as inspiration for creative decision-making in her activities. She was a recipient of the International Teaching Artist Collaborative grant and traveled to Seoul, Korea, to work with the El Sistema-based Orchestra Dream in Seongbuk and its teaching artists. Moon was one of the presenters at ITAC5 and digital ITAC6. She has facilitated conversations about race and restorative practices and believes in the power of music and the arts to heal and work towards social change. She is a staff developer at the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility.
Moon enjoys interacting with the audience in her piano recitals, which feature both traditional and contemporary works. She poses inquiry questions in her interactive recitals to engage and inspire curiosity from audience members and listeners. Moon was a recipient of the "What Can We Do" grant supported by the Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and the Asian American Federation.
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
※Faculty Update: Please note that, due to scheduling conflicts, Katie KRESEK will be unable to participate in this workshop. We are pleased to announce that Beata MOON will join our faculty for the Music category. |
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
Faculty
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.
Beata Moon (Lincoln Center Education Teaching Artist – Music )
|
A versatile musician acclaimed for her expressivity and sincerity, Beata Moon continues to reach audiences through her many-faceted roles as composer, pianist, teaching artist, impresario, and activist. An American of Korean descent, Moon was born in North Dakota and raised in Indiana, where she began studying piano at age five. She made her orchestral debut with the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra at age nine and concertized throughout the Midwest, giving recitals and appearing with various orchestras in the region. Moon graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from the Juilliard School, where she was a student of Adele Marcus.
After completing a semester of the Master's Degree Program at Juilliard, she took a break from playing to reflect on what music meant to her personally. It was at this time that she discovered composing and teaching, which resulted in a return to performing. Her collaborations with choreographer, dancer, and fellow Juilliard alum, Henning Rübsam, brought forth many compositions, inspiring her to focus on composing.
The role of the composer as performer and educator is an important one in Moon's life. She is an ardent ambassador for new music and has enjoyed working as a music television host (WNYE, NY, NY) as well as an impresario in her outreach to broader audiences. Moon has worked with youth in homeless shelters and performed in community facilities.
Moon composes music in a variety of genres: orchestral, concert band, solo instrumental, chamber, and vocal, including children's songs. Her four CDs of original music were enthusiastically received by press and public alike and continue to be broadcast throughout the world. Reviewer Andrew Druckenbrod of Gramophone magazine wrote, "Moon writes compelling music that is utterly sincere." She has created and performed interactive concerts for children for Musica Reginae, a classical music collective based in Queens, NY. Moon also works as a teaching artist for Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the New York Philharmonic, and Marquis Studios, where she has led workshops and designed curricula tailored for students and participants of various backgrounds and abilities. She was a recipient of the artist support grant from NYSCA and has written new works for Random Access Music (RAM).
Moon incorporates current social issues to use as inspiration for creative decision-making in her activities. She was a recipient of the International Teaching Artist Collaborative grant and traveled to Seoul, Korea, to work with the El Sistema-based Orchestra Dream in Seongbuk and its teaching artists. Moon was one of the presenters at ITAC5 and digital ITAC6. She has facilitated conversations about race and restorative practices and believes in the power of music and the arts to heal and work towards social change. She is a staff developer at the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility.
Moon enjoys interacting with the audience in her piano recitals, which feature both traditional and contemporary works. She poses inquiry questions in her interactive recitals to engage and inspire curiosity from audience members and listeners. Moon was a recipient of the "What Can We Do" grant supported by the Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and the Asian American Federation.
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.
