On October 24, 2008, Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku and Tokyo's Taito Ward signed a partnership agreement to promote various activities intended to advance the local community, including artistic, cultural, educational, urban development, and industrial activities.

Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku and Taito Ward have been involved in numerous cooperative and exchange projects across a wide range of fields, including awards presentations for outstanding graduation projects, Taito public concert of Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in which individual citizens and choral groups from the ward perform with Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku faculty and students, and performances in which Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku faculty members lead the brass bands of the ward's junior high schools. The purpose of the agreement is to coordinate existing joint efforts and to ensure the growth, development, and smooth progress of various future projects.

With the gingko trees turning colors in Tokyo, Daito Taito Ward is currently steeped in a painter's palette of colors. Contributing to this atmosphere are the activities of the Ueno Town Art Museum (UTM), undertaken jointly by Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku and Taito Ward. The UTM offers a practical program for community participation in Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku's graduate programs in arts education and arts research. Various arts events are held at locations throughout the ward, made possible by cooperation between members of the local community and members of the university, chiefly students. For example, works of plastic arts based on fabric have been installed in Sumida Park to transform the familiar landscape of that park, while the former Kojima Elementary School serves as a venue for year-round workshops on artistic expression for community residents, establishing a circle of interaction across the generations.