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Since 2019, the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts has been promoting its ‘Artist-in-Residence Project’ initiative, inviting artists to utilize on-site exhibition and library resources and guide parents and schoolchildren from an artist’s perspective to explore the resources available at the Taoyuan Children’s Art Center. These projects immerse audiences in the context of each individual artist’s creation and their way of thinking.

In 2022, the Artist-in-Residence Project will be implemented in the form of an exhibition focused on the Children's Art Center. Artists are invited to showcase the Center’s various features while considering how the Center’s location within a shopping mall affects the Center’s spatial layout and visitor demographics. In this sense, the artist will become an adventurer within the Art Center, transforming into a prospector with his/her work of art and guiding children as they explore the Art Center and discover its hidden secrets.

Six groups of artists are invited to participle in the exhibition. The art works by Sandwishes Studio, Walking Grass Agriculture, and Chien-Chung Liao correspond with the Art Center’s daily operations — otherwise hidden behind the scenes from visitors — from the perspectives of observation/monitoring, space design, and exhibition installation. Artist Chien-Yi Wu opens up the unused space and, under the light streaming through the window, reflects her wishes for the future of Children’s Art. Shu-Kai Lin invites children to build their own art center from imaginary and realistic urban scenes. Cooperating with the teachers and students of Dayong Elementary School, Yu-Ting Lin invites these students to write down their memories, expectations and even fantasies associated with the Children's Art Center.

‘Behind the Scenes’ is a children-focused program that inspires children's imagination through on-site art creation. And to inspire children to create works based on the ‘museum’ theme to demonstrate the various possible appearances of the Taoyuan Children's Art Center.