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The Center for Chinese Art at William Paterson University in collaboration with SGC International Wisconsin 2013 and College of Printmaking, China National Art Institute to invite a group artists for an artists residency program, an international printmaking exhibition and an international panel presentation from March 9th – March 25, 2013.

Golden Prize Winners of China National Printmaking Exhibition, Guirong Luo, Chao Chen visit William Paterson University

Guirong Lou, a Researcher of Printmaking College of China National Art Institute is the First-Class of the National Artist and Vice-president of Yingchuang Artist Association. He has totally won 15 medals such as the gold, silver and bronze medal of the National Arts and Printmaking Exhibition, the Guanlan International Printmaking Award, Chinese Arts Goldcolor Prize, The Luxun Printmaking Prize and so on since 1990.

Chao Chen, a Researcher at the China Jiangsu Printmaking Academy, Jiangsu Art Museum is a first level Chinese artist at the national level. Frequently exhibited in national and international art exhibitions, Chen’s works have won various awards such as Gold Medal of the 16th China National Printmaking Exhibition, 2011; Bronze Award of the 10^th and the 11^th China National Printmaking Exhibition, and the highest honors The Luxun Printmaking Prize by China Printmaking Society.

Master Printmaking Demonstration: Lithograph, and Woodcut I

     Location: Printmaking Studio Room 143
                      Power Art Center

     March 11, 2013
     11:00am – 12:30pm
              Printmaking demonstration: Reduction Woodcut
              By Guirong Lou
     2:30pm – 4:00pm
               Printmaking demonstration:Lithograph
               By Eileen Foti
    
     Open only to art students and faculty. For outside
     visitors, please call 973 720 2799 for register.

Master Printmaking Demonstration:Woodcut II, Chao Chen

     Location: Printmaking Studio Room 143
                      Power Art Center

     March 13, 2013
     11:00am – 12:30pm
    
     Open only to art students and faculty. For outside
     visitors,please call 973 720 2799 for register.

Panel Presentations: Printmaking in Today’s China

     Location: Ben Shahn Room 146
     2:30am- 4:30pm, Wednesday, March 13, 2013
     Moderator: Zhiyuan Cong
     Panelists: Chao Chen, Guirong Lou

     Open to Public

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INTERNATIONAL  PRINTMAKING  EXHIBITION

     Makers in Print: International Exhibition
     January 18 – March 23, 2013
     Hosted by the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
     and Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Wisconsin.

     Coordinated by Center for Chinese Art at William
     Paterson University and the Printmaking College of    National Art Institute

     China Exhibition Curator:  Daquan Dai,
                                               Zhiyuan Cong

Makers in Print explores the vitality of printmaking around the world through the work of artists from South Korea, China, South Africa, Poland, Mexico, and Argentina. Curators were invited to select artists from their countries whose work exemplifies the foremost techniques and concepts in the medium. This presentation is a central component to the national conference of Southern Graphic Council International (SGCI).

Distinguished visiting artists:

Guang Jun, Professor at China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Honorary President of the China National Printmaking Association and Executive Dean of Printmaking College of China National Art Institute.

Daquan Dai, Professor of Tsinghua University, is a Vice-president of the Chinese Printmaking Association, and Associate Dean of the Printmaking College of China National Art Institute.

Qi Chen, Professor And Provost of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, is a Secretary-General of the China National Printmaking Association.

Long Chen, Research fellow of China National Art Institute.

Dongxia Li, Research fellow of China National Art Institute.

Guirong Lou, Research fellow of China National Art Institute, Vice-President of Yingchuang Artist Association.

Yue Yang, Professor and Associate Dean of the Art School of Qingdao University, President of the Qingdao Artist Association.

Yuanfan Zhang, Professor of China Academy of Art, Vice-President of Zhejiang Province Artist Association.

Panel Presentations: Printmaking in today’s China

     Location: The 41st SGC International
     Printmaking Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  

     10:45am- 11:45pm, March 22, 2013

     Panel Chair: Zhiyuan Cong
     Panelists: Guirong Luo, Chen Chao

For more information about this event, or about the Center for Chinese Art, please call the Center at 973.720.2799 or email ccart@wpunj.edu.

The Center for Chinese Art at William Paterson University in collaboration with Art Department, University Galleries, and College of Arts and Communication, will host exhibition, symposium, Chinese mounting workshop and a Chinese Painting Demonstration, during the exhibition: Play Ink- Ink Play period especially for CCAF festival.

Chinese opera painting exhibition explains this special phenomenon of modern Chinese ink painting in a quite reasonable way that artists take opera as a specific object of sentiment, and bestow it with freedom of expression.  This exhibition displays the opera figure paintings created by some outstanding Chinese painters, such as Guan Liang, Lin Fengmian, Huan Yu, Cheng Shifa and Ding Liren. Their works usually take consideration about cultural elements of opera as theme to express themselves and their thoughts about life. There are also some artists using opera’s symbols to pursue renovation of modern ink painting’s patterns. The combination of opera and ink art brings more freedom of emotion and imagination not only to the painters but also to the audience.

Exhibition: Play Ink- Ink Play - The Art of Chinese Opera Painting University

Hosted by Shanghai Liu Haisu Art Museum, University Art Galleries, College of the Arts and Communication and The Center for Chinese Art at William Paterson University

  Exhibition dates: March 4 – April 12, 2013
  Reception: 2:00pm- 4:00pm
                     Sunday, March 3, 2013
  Location: Court Gallery, Ben Shahn Center for                            the Visual Arts

  Chinese Scroll Mounting Workshop

  Dates: March 2, 2013 Saturday 9:30am - 4pm

  Location: Printmaking studio, Power Art Center 144

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Lecture and Presentation: Chinese Painting and Chinese Opera Visiting artists Jian Zhang, Director of Shanghai Liu Haisu Art Museum and his delegation.

  Location: Ben Shahn room 146
  2:30am- 4:30pm, Monday, March 4, 2013­­

The Liu Haisu Art Museum is a national art museum in Shanghai, China.  The museum is named after Mr. Liu Haisu, one of the founders of China New Art Movement in the beginning of the 20th century.

For more information about this event, or about the Center for Chinese Art, please call the Center at 973.720.2799 or email ccart@wpunj.edu.

Sponsored by the Louis Bay 2nd Library & Community Center, the College of Arts and Communication, Art Department, and the Center for Chinese Art at William Paterson University

November 17th –November 30th, 2012

Located at 345 Lafayette Avenue, Hawthorne, New Jersey, 07506

This exhibition is highlighting the printmaking program of William Paterson University, by showing the printmaking artworks of our students, which is focusing on the media of etching. Most of the artworks are from the current 2012 fall semester students, however, some select artworks are from our former students. There are more than 30 artworks that will be presented in this exhibition, which is to showcase the etching techniques from the past and up to the most current production of printmaking. This will show how well our students have followed the printmaking tradition and make it contemporary.

Saturday, November 17

2:00pm - 3:00pm  Lecture: An introduction of the printmaking by Professor Zhiyuan Cong, the Head of the printmaking program of  William Paterson University

For more information about this event, please call 973.427.5745 Lafayette Ave, Hawthorne, New Jersey 07506, or contact the Center for Chinese Art, at 973.720.2799 or email ccart@wpunj.edu.

Host by: Sino Literature Award Fund
Sponsor by: Middletown Arts Center
Presented at The Middletown Arts Center

Chinese Ink Painting Demonstration by artists

September 4th - 28th, 2012
Monday - Saturday 10:30 AM - 4:00 PM

Located at 36 Church St., Middletown, NJ 07748.

Saturday, September 15th, 2012
3:00 - 5:00 PM - Reception

To the Middletown Arts Center,36 Church St., Middletown, NJ 07748

For more information about this event, or about the Center for Chinese Art, please call the Center at 973.720.2799 or email ccart@wpunj.edu.

September 10th, 2012, 2:30 - 4:30 PM (Monday)
144C Power Art Center, 25 Power Ave, Wayne, NJ, 07470

Professor Weishan Wu, a distinguished sculptor, was invited to have his special solo art exhibition in UN, NYC for this trip. He is the Dean, Academy of Chinese Sculpture and he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (FRBS) and the Society of Portrait Sculptors in the UK. Weishan Wu won the Pangolin Award of the British Society of Portrait Sculptors in 2003. He won the Chinese Urban Sculpture Achievement Award the highest award in urban sculpture in China in 2009, and the China Arts Award, a special honor in Chinese literary and art circles in 2011. The Nanjing Museum of China hosts a permanent gallery, called “The Cultural Celebrity Sculptures of Weishan Wu,” and INJE University of South Korea hosts the “Weishan Wu Sculpture Park.”

For more information about this event, or about the Center for Chinese Art, please call the Center at 973.720.2799 or email ccart@wpunj.edu.

William Paterson University has been selected as the Gold Winner of the 27th Annual Educational Advertising Awards for the Center for Chinese Art's Catalog Summer Art in China. This award was presented by the Higher Education Marketing Report and it is a great honor to be receiving first place in a competition with thousands of entries. An announcement was made by President Kathleen Waldron at our Presidential Dinner in honor of President Yang Xiaoyang, and the art delegation, from the China National Institute of Art on May 10, 2012.

The catalog can be viewed in our publications section.

Thursday, May 10, 2012 
 2:30pm-5:00pm: Symposium 
      David and Lorraine Cheng Library, Auditorium    

The Center for Chinese Art at William Paterson and the Chinese Contemporary Culture and Arts Foundation, USA are hosting a symposium.

The China National Academy of Painting is one of the supreme professional art institutions in China for over three decades. The delegation will includes Jiangzhou Zhang - Vice President, China National Academy of Painting; Ma Shulin - Vice President, National Art Museum of China; Jiancheng Zhao - Director, Art Creation Department, Chinese National Academy of Arts; Lianbin Ji - Director of Creation Research Department, China National Academy of Painting; Fan Yang - Council Member of China National Artists Association; Zeng Laide - Director of Calligraphy and Seal Caving Department, China National Academy of Painting; Kong Zi, Research Fellow, China National Academy of Painting; Wu Xun, Research Fellow, China National Academy of Painting; Wang Yongliang - Research Fellow, China National Academy of Painting; Li Xiaojun - Research Fellow, China National Academy of Painting; Li Ping, President of Suimo Yonghe Art Foundation.

Panelists for the University symposium will include: Xiaoyang Yang, President of China National Academy of Painting; Jiangzhou Zhang, Vice President of China National Academy of Painting; and Zeng Laide, director of Calligraphy and Seal Caving Department, China National Academy of Painting. Cong will moderate the panel discussion.

   6:00pm - 9:00pm; Banquet 
  Faculty Dining Room, Speert Hall 

For more information about this event, or about the Center for Chinese Art, please call the Center at 973.720.2799 or email ccart@wpunj.edu.

A demonstration and lecture and presentation.

Shiguan Qiao & Chinese Modern Lacquer Painting

Thursday, 6:00 - 9:00 PM, April 9th, 2012
144C Power Art Center, 25 Power Ave, Wayne, NJ, 07470

Professor of Tsinghua University is a renowned Chinese artist and one of the pioneers in Chinese modern lacquer painting. He is also an active board member of the Chinese National Artist Association and serves as the President of the Lacquer Painting Committee at the Beijing Arts And Crafts Institute.

Chinese lacquer painting has a long history that can be traced back to ancient China. It utilizes a natural painting material refined from the sap of a special kind of tree. As famous as other unique inventions like the making of silk and honey, together they come down through history as the Chinese “Three Treasures”.

For more information about this event, or about the Center for Chinese Art, please call the Center at 973.720.2799 or email ccart@wpunj.edu.

February, 23rd, 2012
144C Power Art Center, 25 Power Ave, Wayne, NJ, 07470

In celebration of the 2012 Chinese New Year, year of the dragon, the Center for Chinese Art at William Paterson University in collaboration with the Department of Art and the College of Arts and Communication, will host an evening of celebration events and performances.

2:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.: Chinese painting reproduction exhibition courtesy of the Beijing Palace Museum Collection.

2:30 P.M.: Appreciation and appraisal of Chinese painting Lecture, by Mr. Arnold Chang, pre-director of Chinese Art Department, Sotheby, NY

4:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.: Chinese Art book fair from Science Press USA. The proceeds will all be donated to the Center for Chinese Art, and WPU foundation.

5:00 P.M.: Start celebration with short introduction.

5:30 P.M.: Celebration party with Chinese food, and performances by the Sino-American Musician Association, with Ke Pei, Weiling Shao, YongDong Chen, Dongi Zhang, Mingyuan Li, & more. 

All events and performances are open to the public and are free admission.

For more information about this event, or about the Center for Chinese Art, please call the Center at 973.720.2799 or email ccart@wpunj.edu.