“Harmonious Hunan” artists are talented and accomplished 

"Harmonious Hunan" in Painting, Calligraphy and Photography: Art from Saint Paul's Sister City Changsha, China will be July 8-18 at the College of Visual Arts Gallery.  The exhibit will feature the artwork of Master Lei Yixing and other talented and accomplished Hunan artists including He Manzong, Zhu Xunde, Zhang Liping, Chen Feihu, Kuang Xiaojin, Hu Liwei, and Cao Mingqiu. The artists will attend the closing reception Sunday, July 18, 4 to 6 p.m. "Harmonious Hunan" in Painting, Calligraphy and Photography: Art from Saint Paul's Sister City Changsha, China will be July 8-18 at the College of Visual Arts Gallery.  The exhibit will feature the artwork of Master Lei Yixing and other talented and accomplished Hunan artists including He Manzong, Zhu Xunde, Zhang Liping, Chen Feihu, Kuang Xiaojin, Hu Liwei, and Cao Mingqiu. The artists will attend the closing reception Sunday, July 18, 4 to 6 p.m.

He Manzong is director of Chinese Calligraphers Association, vice-president of Hunan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, president of Provincial Calligraphers Association. Since 2004, he has held personal calligraphy exhibition over ten times in Macao, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Changsha. 
 
Zhu Xunde is a famous painter who has won numerous awards for his work.  He is a director of Chinese Painters Association, vice-president of Hunan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, dean and professor of Fine Arts Institute of Hunan Normal University.  His art can be seen at the Chinese Painting Museum and UN Headquarters.
 
Zhang Liping is a director of Chinese Photographers Association and Chinese Photographers’ Copyrights Association, vice president of Hunan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and president of Hunan Photographers Association. Hundreds of her photographs have been exhibited in China and elsewhere. She has also had numerous articles on photography and culture published in China and abroad.
 
Chen Feihu is a university professor, vice-dean of the School of Architecture of Hunan University, and vice-president of the Artists Association of Hunan Province. He is also a member of the Artists Association of PRC, the National Association of Architects and the Architecture Art Steering Committee of National Universities. His work has been included in a number of major art exhibitions in China and abroad.
 
Kuang Xiaojin is Director of Chinese Painters Association, Vice-president and General Secretary of Hunan Artists Association, Vice-president of Working Council for Young Painters’ Federation in the Ministry of Culture Specially-appointed Professor of Training School of Renmin University of China Member of Landscape Painting Section of Chinese Painters Association. He has won numerous awards of merit and his works were also sent to the Exhibition of Ten Famous Hunan Calligraphers which is a contemporary outstanding Chinese traditional painting exhibition hosted by Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
 
Hu Liwei is vice-dean of Painting Institute of Hunan Province, vice-president of Painting and Calligraphy in Hunan Province and he is also a well-known artist of painting and calligraphy. His works are included in China’s National Art Exhibition and he has published Hu Liwei’s Collections of Painting and Calligraphy Works.

Cao Mingqiu is a remarkable Chinese painter, a member of Chinese Painters Association and a state-first-class artist. His works has been exhibited, awarded and collected in and out of China and several of his personal painting collections have also been published.
 
Editor’s Note: Information about the artists participating in “Harmonious Hunan” comes from “Harmonious Hunan” Art Delegation, a bilingual brochure provided to China Insight by Master Lei Yixin. “Master Lei Yixin returns to Minnesota with his distinguished colleagues” by staff writer Jennifer Nordin appears elsewhere in this web site.