As part of the NMC/TCAPS Go Global program to be held at NMC on Saturday, November 16 the Dennos Museum Center will be hosting two visitors from China who will be part of the programming.
From 12 – 12:45 PM The Dennos will present Caroline Cheng and Paul Meredith from Shanghai, China. They will host a conversation about the changing face of China.
Caroline Cheng is the Executive Director of The Pottery Workshop, with operations in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Jingdezhen, China. Cheng has been an independent studio artist for the last 17 years with 7 solo and over 50 group exhibitions; including Hong Kong, Beijing, USA and Paris. Cheng is an active promoter of ceramics in Hong Kong and China.
Cheng is best known for her ceramic butterfly creations where thousands of handmade ceramic butterflies are sewn to stylized versions of traditional Chinese robes. The Dennos exhibited one of her butterfly works in 2009.
Learn more about Caroline and her work here:
http://www.potteryworkshop.com.cn/nceca/gallery/?type=detail&id=28
http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/videos/2013/10/the-eternal-spring.html
Paul Meredith, originally from Grand Ledge, met Caroline Cheng, now his wife, while she was studying at MSU. “She was at a table carousing for Greenpeace and I was helping organize / perform for a Feed the World program!,” says Paul. Paul came to China as a UN aid worker. He is now a singer/songwriter teaching guitar in Shanghai and performing in several bands having introduced bluegrass music to many of the Chinese musicians he performs with there. Living in China as an expat for over 20 years, Paul has a unique perspective on the rapidly changing face of China in that time.
Learn more about Paul here:
http://www.smartshanghai.com/blog/1608/Guitar_Hero_Paul_Meredith.html
Caroline and Paul are here though November 18 and would be potentially available to visit classrooms on that day by request.
