INFORMATION FOR
Center of Chinese Art at William Paterson University Chinese-American Art Faculty Association New York Gallery of Chinese Art
Lyusheng Chen Margaret Lam Daryl Joseph Moore David Yen
Zhiyuan Cong Jiawei Gong Josh Z. Yu
Chung-Fan Chang, Wei Dong, Lian Duan, Yifei Gan, Zhimin Guan, Qian Li, Leah Lihua Wong, Yida Wang, Nengqiang Yang
November 21-23, 2019. William Paterson University
Unbounded Extension: Chinese-American Women Artists Digital Media and Installation Art November 23, 2019 – January 10, 2020 New York Gallery of Chinese Art, 91 A Allen Street, NYC, NY 10002
Artistic Development in Cross-Cultural Context: The Fourth Chinese-American Art Faculty Symposium” will convene at William Paterson University from November 21-23, 2019. The two-day conference will include academic and teaching experience exchanges as well as an art exhibition. The main participants will be members of the Chinese-American Art Faculty Association. The members not only have Chinese creative art and art education backgrounds but they have also earned advanced degrees in the US and have teaching experience in art schools, colleges and universities across America. This conference will, through the exchange of Eastern and Western ideas about art, share art education teaching experiences and discuss the development of contemporary art in a cross-cultural context. The conference activities will improve American and Chinese art education quality resulting in deeper understanding between the Eastern and Western arts.
The Center for Chinese Art at William Paterson University will provide food and accommodation in New Jersey from November 21 – November 23. Participating members will pay out their own pockets if they want to come early or stay late. The Center can help make reservations.
Artists Intruduction Host: Professor Josh Z. Yu, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Thursday, November 21, 2019 Location: Power Art Center #143
Developments and Trends in the Contemporary Context Symposium Host: Professor. Josh Z. Yu Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 noon, Friday, November 22, 2019 Location: Hobart Hall Martini Conference Room, William Paterson University
American Art Education and my Teaching Experiences Presentation Host: Professor Zhiyuan Cong, Director, Center for Chinese Art at WPUNJ Time: 2:00 – 4:30pm, Friday, November 22, 2019 Location: Hobart Hall Martini Conference Room, William Paterson University
Exhibition Opening Reception Opening Host: Professor Zhiyuan Cong Panel Discussion Host: Professor He Zhang, William Paterson University Time: 3:00 – 6:00 pm, Saturday, November 23, 2019 Location: 91a Allen Street, NY, NY 10002
Artists
Snow Yunxue Fu, Xia Gao, Guoqing Heaton, Qian Li, Qin Liu, Ying Tan, Yida Wang, Leah Lihua Wong.
Unbounded Extension: Chinese-American Women Artists Digital Media and Installation Art Exhibition” is scheduled from November 23, 2019 to January 10, 2020 at the New York Gallery of Chinese Art. This exhibition will focus on digital media and installation arts by Chinese-American women artists. These artists’ attention to life, love, humanity and other varieties of human nature is related to their unique identity and sensitivity. The knowledge, poetic and narrative expression in their artwork provides viewers an enriched experience and visual engagement, and their work also shows their creative explorations. In the meantime, through the exhibition, viewers will be able to have close interaction with the artwork and to have deeper understanding the artists’ creative thinking, processes, and their teaching specialties and achievements in arts.
For more information about this event, please call the Center for Chinese at William Paterson University at (973) 720-2799 or email ccart@wpunj.edu
