PART 1: Basic information
- What is your gender?
- What is your education level?
- What is your age?
- What is your occupation? (open-ended from Question 4)
- Where is your hometown?
PART 2: Participants’ general understanding of the Chao Shao-an Gallery and Lingnan
School of Painting - To what extent do you know about the Lingnan School of painting?
- When you think of Chao Shao-an Gallery at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, what is the first
impression that comes to your mind, especially at this joint exhibition? - What is your understanding of the characteristics of the Lingnan School of Painting?
- The design of porcelain painting is to paint with overglaze enamels, then process through low-
temperature firing. Was there anything particularly attractive to you? - For the second generation of Lingnan School of Painting, Chao Shao-an and Yang Shen Sum
developed joint paintings without any plans or pre-set subjects. So, what do you think is the
biggest problem to overcome during the creative process?
PART 3: Engagement and interaction inside and outside the Chao Shao-an Gallery - What do you think of the information given on the facilities and devices?
(hint: (i) gallery brochures (ii) text panels (iii) electronic board (iiii) photo album and; (Ⅴ)
videos) - Do you believe watching Chinese painting and calligraphy at Chao Shao-an Gallery can help you
enhance the art appreciation ability? - Any left problems on the Chinese painting and calligraphy you have little understanding of after
visiting this exhibition？ - What do you expect most to get from visiting this joint exhibition? Does it meet your
expectation? - Did you find the exhibition useful in helping you get any inspirations on Chinese arts learning
practice? - How many time (s) do you visit museums in one year?
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- Except visiting museums, what other places or methods can enable you to learn more on Chinese
painting and calligraphy?
PART 4: Sharing on meaningful/interesting art learning and museum education practice
For teachers - (a) Have you ever collaborated with museums or gave lessons on Chinese painting and
calligraphy? If yes, how do you feel about the learning effectiveness of the students? If no, could
you please share some common methods to teach? - (a) Do you think it is important to combine Chinese painting and calligraphy with P-12 school
curriculum? And why? - (a) What challenges have you encountered when promoting Chinese painting and calligraphy?
For students - (b) Would you like to share some meaningful exhibitions when studying Chinese painting and
calligraphy? - (b) What did you learn from that experience?
- (b) Any reflections for the development of Chao Shao-an Gallery?
For artists/curators - (c) Could you please introduce some art teaching experiences or collaboration work with
museums? How do you feel about the learning effectiveness of your students? - (c) Any challenges you have encountered when promoting Chinese painting and calligraphy?
- (c) Do you have any suggestions on how to combine Chinese painting and calligraphy with P-12
school curriculum?