Bonding Through Art: A Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition at CCACC Art Gallery

The Chinese Culture and Community Service Center (CCACC) Art Gallery will launch a three-week Chinese brush painting and calligraphy exhibition, "Bonding Through Art" on December 7 to showcase 50 landscape paintings, flower-and-bird paintings and calligraphy works created by Wendy Yee, Elise L. Chang, and Ling-Li Lin, three art teachers of the CCACC Evergreen Club Painting and Calligraphy Class.

Wendy Yee has studied traditional Chinese ink painting and calligraphy for over 20 years. She studied flower-and-bird paintings from Ms. Hsu Baihua, landscape from Mr. Bertrand Mao, and calligraphy from Mr. John Wang. She has been volunteering at CCACC as a teacher of calligraphy and flower-and-bird painting for nearly 20 years.

Elise L. Chang has studied Chinese ink painting for over 20 years. She learned landscape painting from Master Gong Yiji and flower-and-bird painting from Master Hsu Baihua. Over the years, she has participated in numerous art exhibitions and won multiple awards, and her works are highly appreciated and collected by many. She has a particular fondness for the landscapes of Master Huang Bijun and the floral subjects of the Lingnan School of Painting. For more than a decade, she has been volunteering to teach landscape painting at CCACC.

Ling-Li Lin has recently succeeded Yee in teaching flower-and-bird painting at CCACC Evergreen Club after being a student for ten years. She has dedicated much time and effort to make the "Bonding Through Art" exhibition a reality. In explaining why this exhibition is titled "Bonding Through Art," Lin said that she is grateful for joining by chance the Evergreen Club ten years ago, studying art from Yee and Chang, becoming an art teacher, and now jointly presenting this exhibition with her two teachers; looking back, she truly appreciates the power of art that brings people together. It is her sincere hope that, through this exhibition, more community members will be motivated to join the class and build the bond together.

The Evergreen Club Painting and Calligraphy Class is held every Friday from 2pm to 4pm. Flower-and-bird classes are delivered on the first and third Friday of each month. The class starts with basic subjects such as the "Four Gentlemen" —the plum blossom, the orchid, the bamboo, and the chrysanthemum, and gradually extends to wisteria, rose, peony and other flower themes, and eventually to birds and animals. The calligraphy class is held on the second Friday of each month, when students copy the works of some famous artists. The landscape class is held on the fourth Friday of every month, and students learn ink-burning and ink-dyeing techniques while drawing the subjects of mountains, rocks, seas of clouds, trees, and so on.

Anyone who is interested, please sign up for the class to learn together. Maybe in ten years, you will have the opportunity to hold your own art exhibition!

"Bonding Through Art" Opening Reception: 2-4 pm, Sat, 12/07/2024

· Duration: 12/07-12/27/2024

· Address: 9318 Gaithersburg Road, Suite 215, Gaithersburg, MD 20877

· Phone: 301-820-7200 Ext. 8522

· Gallery Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 12-5 pm

· Parking & Admission: Free

(Written by Ling-Li Lin, Evergreen Club Art Teacher)