Based on the practical experience of establishing three art casting laboratories in three different colleges of Guangdong,this paper focuses on the development of contemporary art castings education.By analyzing the reason for the shortage of professionals nowadays and the characteristics of modern foundry industry in the Pearl River Delta,the authors try to find out what kind of knowledge structures a modern foundry industry professional should have.Then,from the viewpoint of education,the authors introduce how to combine the art casting laboratory and the creative art casting course as a new teaching pattern,on the one hand,to attract more students to study casting technology,on the other hand,to train them to be qualified professionals for the modern foundry industry.