Children's Chinese Art Exhibit

New Canaan Library Welcomes Chinese Language School of Connecticut Art Exhibit

“It’s very gratifying to see how many students are inspired to learn Chinese through their interest in art and Chinese culture,” noted CLSC Board member and president, New Canaan resident Susan Serven.

Riverside, CT, June 20, 2009 – The Chinese Language School of Connecticut (www.ChineseLanguageSchool.org), the fully-accredited, non-profit Riverside, CT-based provider of Chinese language programs to students, schools and corporations, will be presenting an exhibit of children’s Chinese art at the New Canaan Library from June 25 through the end of July.

New Canaan Library Director Alice Knapp, explained, “We are very pleased to help promote global community awareness through this international exhibit. The Chinese Language School of Connecticut’s students and staff have created some wonderful pieces of art exploring what they’ve learned, and what Chinese culture means to them.”

“It’s wonderful to see so many of our students showing what they’ve learned, through art,” said CLSC president, New Canaan resident Susan Serven. “Creating art helps students integrate what they are learning, and makes it all so much more fun,” she continued.

CLSC VP Art and Culture, Redding resident Katy Chen Myers, explained, “the exhibits will include student-created artwork such as “The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove,” which is a Recreation of the third century Wei dynasty poets and writers as Taoist sages engaged in music and conversation; Traditional folk art of China and Taiwan made for the spring festivals and dragon boat races in honor of Chinese hero Qu Yuan; “Collage of the Ancients,” which are Early Chinese pictographs arranged in artful patterns; “Let a Hundred Kites Fly; Virtues Remembered: A tribute to the victims of the Cultural Revolution,” which is an installation of one hundred kites made by CLSC students stamped with Chinese characters representing virtues forgotten by the communist leaders during the Cultural Revolution; and “The Horses of the Tang Dynasty,” which is an installation of the pastel/abstract ponies arriving for inspection for the emperor,” she continued.

Explanations of each group will accompany the art.

For information on this exhibit or on CLSC weekend or weekday language programs for children or adults, Before– and After- School programs, special workshops, private tutoring or corporate language programs, please visit www.ChineseLanguageSchool.org or email them at info@ChineseLanguageSchool.org.

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