Letter to Educators
Dear Educators,
The Helen Day Art Center
invites you to join us for our Made In China Professional Development Workshop
that coincides with our Fall Exhibit, Made In China: Contemporary Chinese
Art.
Showing at the Helen Day Art
Center from September 19th-November 15th, this exciting
exhibit represents the first major exhibition of contemporary Chinese artwork
in Vermont. The perspective gained
from these creative works from leading Chinese artists is especially relevant
in the context of our increased intimacy with China and subsequent awareness of
Chinese culture, politics, and economics. This exhibit addresses how politics affect art in post-Maoist China, and
the role of artists in directing national identity in a time when personal
identity can finally be considered a legitimate quest.
The Professional Development
Workshop is designed for educators who would like to include a more
contemporary view of China in their classrooms, and who want to discover how
contemporary Chinese Artwork and society still has ties to ancient history.
Participants will be provided with information, resources, and inspiration for
integrating Chinese Arts and culture into their classroom curriculum through
lectures, discussions, and hands-on activities. This workshop will also include a rare opportunity to learn
about 20th century and present day China from visiting Chinese
teachers.
The workshop will include:
- A Curators’ Tour of the Made In China Exhibit
- Chinese History Lecture with Dr. Juefei Wang
– Former Director of the Asian Studies Outreach Program at the
University of Vermont and Former Executive Director of the Governor’s
Council on International Education of Vermont (for more about Juefei Wang
click here)
- Lunch
- Chinese Brush Painting and Calligraphy Workshop
with Artist Yinglei Zhang – Chinese Art and Language instructor (for more about Yinglei Zhang and
the Brush Painting Workshop, click here)
- Panel Discussion on Education with visiting
Chinese Teachers from UVM’s Asian Studies Outreach Program (www.uvm.edu/~outreach)
- Classroom resources, handouts, and a CD of
images from the show
Brush Painting Workshop
with Yinglei Zhang
This "Hands on"
workshop will foster an appreciation and understanding of the aesthetics of
Chinese painting. From the subjects matters to the meanings behind it, from the
three excellency of the painting to the importance of the seal, from a thing
layer of Xuan paper to a piece of silk mounted finished work, you will truly
appreciate and understand the beauty of Chinese painting. Furthermore, you will
learn the basic brush strokes, the combination of water and ink, and the
amazing effect on Xuan paper. You will make your own art to keep and enjoy, as
well as for others to admire.
In this workshop, Yinglei
will demonstrate how to draw the traditional four gentlemen series, which stand
for the four seasons of the year: plum blossom, mountain orchid, chrysanthemum,
and bamboo. Participates will have the choice to practice one, or four of them
at the workshop, and continue to practice at home if one desire.
Yinglei has B.A. in Chinese
language and literature, Advanced certificate in Chinese classic literature. M.
Ed in Art education. She teaches Chinese language, Art and other culture
related subjects at Williams college, Saint Michael's College, Green Mountain
College, and many schools and institutes in the area. She currently lives in
Middlebury, Vermont
Note:
• Materials are all
provided. $2.00/ person for Xuan paper and any thing used during the workshop.
• Material kit cost $ 15.00
if you wish to keep: Xuan paper, three brushes, one bottle of the ink, and a
felt.
• Please bring your own
materials if you already have.
Chinese History Lecture: Dr. Juefei Wang
Dr. Juefei Wang is Program
Director of the Freeman Foundation and Founder and Former Director of the Asian
Studies Outreach Program (ASOP) at the University of Vermont. He assisted in initiating the China
Project for teachers to study Chinese culture in the 1980s; initiated and
designed the State-wide Program for Asian Studies in Schools in Vermont in
1997; designed and managed various in-state programs and programs in China,
Japan and Thailand for Vermont educators and students to study Asian cultures;
and served as the Executive Director of the Governor’s Council on International
Education of Vermont and as a member of the Vermont State Board of Education
Committee for the World Language and International Education. During the last 14 years, he received
support to teaching about Asia in Vermont from the Freeman Foundation, the
U.S.-Japan Foundation, the Asia Society, the Longview Foundation and other
sources. He received the Goldman
Sachs Foundation inaugural Prize for Excellence in International Education
(Higher Education) on behalf of ASOP in 2003. Dr. Wang has degrees of Bachelor of Arts from Inner Mongolia
Teacher University, Master of Comparative Education from Beijing Normal
University, and Master of Foundational Studies of Education and Doctor of
Education in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of
Vermont.
We hope you can join us.
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FALL 2008 ART CLASSES
