作为一个就读于美国艺术院校的留学生,我认为美国的当代学院雕塑艺术教育有一些值得我国高等美术教育借鉴之处。对他山之石的探讨,或许对我国的艺术人才培养有所启发。时时会有中国留学生在留美学习艺术的初期感到迷茫,其中多是因为在2000年之后,大多数美国艺术院校已经将授课重点偏向于当代艺术,对沿用超过百年的传统美术课程进行了革新。以美国高等艺术院校中的翘楚——芝加哥艺术学院为例,新生被要求学习Contemporary As a foreign student studying at art schools in the United States, I think there is something in the art education of contemporary art sculpture in the United States that is worth learning from the higher art education in our country. The discussion of the stone in other mountains may inspire the cultivation of our country’s art talents. Chinese students often find themselves confused in the early days of studying art in the United States, mostly because most art schools in the United States have shifted their emphasis to contemporary art after 2000 and have renovated traditional art courses that have been using more than a century. For example, the Art Institute of Chicago, a leading American higher education institution, was asked to study Contemporary