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First week in China 2011: Beijing and Jinan

June 4th 2011
I left Minnesota on May 25th, flying into the future, arriving in Beijing Thursday, May 26th. After much planning and arranging I finally arrive in Beijing. I am a little apprehensive about the catalog for my exhibition. I have been working with Li Xiaowen, who I met last summer at Sanbao, on the design. We have been trading emails, sending images and ideas back and forth for a month. Befor ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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Clay Guy in China

Clay Guy

Professor Gary Erickson, Art Department - Ceramics, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN has been traveling to China for nine years. He has done artist residencies at the Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute in Jingdezhen, China and now rents his own studio in town. Summer 2011 he had a solo exhibition of his sculptural work at the Jingdezhen International Academy of Ceramics gallery. He received a 2013 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant to ship work back to Minnesota for a fall exhibition at Concordia University in St. Paul. This will be the first time he has shown his Jingdezhen crea... full info

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