Dr. Yang Yingshi is deputy director of the Public Education Department of the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in Beijing. He serves as a member of the National Advisory Committee on Public Cultural Services of the Chinese Ministry of Culture, an adjunct faculty member teaching graduate courses in arts & cultural administration and art museum education at the School of the Arts of Peking University (Beida) and Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) respectively. In addition to advising Master’s degree students in art museum education at CAFA, he is a guest professor of the Central Academy of Cultural Administration and is the academic host of the National Training Program for Art Museum Educators.

Dr. Yang obtained his first Master’s degree in Art Studies from Peking University, a second Master’s in Arts in Education from Harvard University and a Doctorate in Art and Art Education from Columbia University. He is the first returned Chinese scholar who graduated with a doctorate for his research in arts administration and art museum education from a leading American university. Dr. Yang is the author of numerous publications including “Art Museums as Educational Institutions: A Case Study of Four Museums in New York City with Implications for China”. He has also been the organizer of many national and international projects, among them “Art Space for Education’s Sake: China-US Conference on Art Museum Education.”

(Biography: InSEA2017)