The new exhibit Peace and Harmony in Chinese Brush Painting at the Dayton Peace Museum features the artwork of Afu Hong, a famous artist from China. As Hong\u2019s student for more than six years, the exhibit also includes the artwork of Yufeng Wang, a Sinclair history professor.<\/p>\n
The exhibit will be open until June 30 and is open and free to the public.<\/p>\n
The artwork will focus on inspiring peace because world peace and cultural understanding is an endeavor that Wang has been trying to achieve. Through her artwork, she hopes to bridge a cultural gap that promotes learning.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeace and respect are part of my upbringing and deep cultural root. As I grow older, my life goal has become clearer\u2013not only to fulfill life\u2019s potential\u2013but strive to make a difference.<\/p>\n
Promoting historical and cross-cultural understanding has become my lifelong endeavor,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Art has been a passion of Wang\u2019s since she was a little girl, but she said history and teaching at Sinclair is something that she is dedicated to doing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want people to think history teacher doing art, well how did that come about? But I also want people to see that I am dedicated to teaching, and I don\u2019t put one above the other,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She is a history teacher that loves art because in 1981, as one of the pioneering students from mainland China, she said she was offered a full-scholarship to study art and world history in America.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was excited because they liked my effort. They saw that I was innovative and a hardworking student,\u201d she said. \u201cSo I came to America to do what I loved to do best\u2014learn.\u201d<\/p>\n
The exhibit <\/strong><\/p>\n The exhibit will display Wang\u2019s talent and understanding of Chinese brush painting. Chinese brush painting is the oldest continuous artistic tradition, Wang said. It utilizes a brush dipped in black or colored ink on silk and paper.<\/p>\n All of Wang\u2019s artwork, on display at the Peace Museum uses some aspect of nature to symbolize peace, harmony and hope.<\/p>\n \u201cThe exhibit captures the very essence of hope, balance and peace that has been a foundation of Chinese art since the Ming Dynasty and before,\u201d London Coe, retail coordinator for the Peace Museum, said.<\/p>\n Wang knows her endeavor to achieve world peace will last her a lifetime, but she said she is dedicated to the cause and hopes that her artwork will inspire cultural and long lasting peace.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a professor of american history born in China, I see myself as a cross-culture bridge builder and a planter of seeds of learning and understanding,\u201d Wang said.\u00a0 \u201cIt is only natural that I volunteer at the DIPM\u00b8 a place that promotes mutual respect, worldly understanding and peaceful co-existence.\u201d<\/p>\n For more information contact Wang at yufeng.wang@sinclair.edu or call 512-2248.<\/p>\n The peace Museum is located at 208 W. Monument Avenue in downtown Dayton. For more information about the exhibit at the Peace Museum call 937-22-PEACE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The new exhibit Peace and Harmony in Chinese Brush Painting at the Dayton Peace Museum features the artwork of Afu Hong, a famous artist from China. As Hong\u2019s student for more than six years, the exhibit also includes the artwork of Yufeng Wang, a Sinclair history professor. The exhibit will be open until June 30 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-1HO","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6560"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6563,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560\/revisions\/6563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}