Jing Clay Art Formosa

We invite artists to come to our slow and comfortable creative space

Jing Clay Art Formosa is located in Yujing, Tainan City, and was constructed in 2017. In 2021, it began to plan the environment and internal facilities, and was founded in December 2022, and in February 2024, it officially opened. With a total area of 880 pings, 293 pings of outdoor space, and 587 pings of indoor space, it takes international exchanges as the starting point of its core values, inviting artists from all over the world to exchange knowledge, technology, and culture with Taiwanese artists, and respecting creators from different countries and ethnic groups, and embracing and opening up a world view of ceramic art through interactive and communicative sharing.
Jing Clay Art Formosa is a basin surrounded by mountains. When early summer arrives, the glorious sunshine and clear rain showers produce fruitful mango and longan trees that emit a light fruity scent, providing artists to use mango or longan wood as materials for wood kilns while creating their works. The unique soil for growing mangoes is iron-rich chalk, a kind of limestone with a delicate, soft and porous texture, which is a low-temperature soil and provides artists with a variety of raw materials for their creations, thus combining ceramics and art as a primitive and natural residency.

Jing Clay Art Formosa provides necessary equipment like electric, gas and wood kilns in order to facilitate the resident artist’s creative needs. Apart from engaging with resident artists with their solo or group exhibitions, Jing Clay Art Formosa works closely with the Artistic Director’s alma mater Tainan National University of the Arts to organize specialized artists’ talks and workshops.