Changhua County Wanxing Junior High School—Erlin in Light and Shadow: Seeing Colors, Hearing the Hometown

Our school is located in a remote area of Erlin, Changhua, where students have relatively limited opportunities to engage with arts, culture, and technology. Therefore, since the 2019 academic year, we have been continuously promoting interdisciplinary aesthetic courses, hoping to connect different disciplines through art and enhance students' learning motivation, observation skills, and expression abilities.
This course, titled "Erlin in Light and Shadow: Seeing Color, Hearing Hometown," begins with Impressionist art. Impressionist painting emphasizes light and shadow, color, and fleeting atmosphere, while Impressionist music stresses timbre, spatial sense, and natural imagery; the two can resonate with each other through sensory experience. Centering on "Light and Shadow and Sound in Erlin," the course guides students to reinterpret the scenery and culture of their hometown through visual, auditory, tactile, and spatial perception, combining music appreciation, local culture, digital creation, stencil printing, resin printing, and lacquer art.
The course not only allows students to "paint Erlin," but also hopes that they can use color, sound, materials, and emotions to jointly construct local memories and create an "art space where you can see light and shadow and hear the sounds of your hometown." At the same time, through the addition of professional instructors and skills education, aesthetic learning extends from classroom appreciation to life applications, technical practice, and future career exploration.