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Asian Art Essay Prize 2013-2014
The Department of Fine Arts at the University of Hong Kong is pleased to announce that the winner of this year’s University of Hong Kong Museum Society Asian Art Essay Prize is Mr. Andrew Fung On Tsun for his essay “A New Perspective in Chinese Art: Unearthing Vernacular Painting in the High Qing.” Honorable mention goes to Ms Zhu Pingyan. Please join us in congratulating Andrew! The winning essay will be available here in due course.
Student KE Project: Transformations
Transformations: Art Workshop and Art Practices Last summer, with the support of HKU Knowledge Exchange Grant and the Faculty of Arts, a group of Fine Arts undergraduates, including Miles Dugan, Erin Li, and Clea Chan, Shirley Chan, Bridgette Kam, Chloe Lam and Sunny Liu, worked on the project Transformations: Art Workshops and Art Practices, in which they assisted in the production of It Begins with Metamorphosis: Xu Bing, an exhibition curated by one of our faculty members Dr. Yeewan Koon at Asia Society Hong Kong Centre from May 8 to August 31, 2014. Their first and primary role was to raise silkworms that were used [...]
New Book: A Defiant Brush by Dr. Yeewan Koon
A Defiant Brush: Su Renshan and 19th-Century Guangdong Dr. Yeewan Koon’s new book A Defiant Brush: Su Renshan and the Politics of Painting in Early 19th-Century Guangdong has been published. “As the Opium War unfold in Guangdong Province, the painter Su Renshan (1814—c.1850) exploded onto the art scene with a bold, paradigm-turning new voice. A Defiant Brush takes a fresh look at this underappreciated artist in the context of a nascent Chinese modernism…” Visit Hong Kong University Press website for more information.
Asian Art Essay Competition 2013-2014
Asian Art Essay in Competition 2013-2014 This is a call for entries for the annual University of Hong Kong Museum Society Asian Art Essay Prize. A prize of HK$2,000 will be offered to the winner. Click to read previous winning essays: – 2012-2013 – 2011-2012 The competition is open to all current full-time undergraduate students, including: – 1st year students, who intend to declare a major in Fine Arts; – 2nd year students, who are majoring in Fine Arts; – 3rd year Fine Arts majors, given that they submit the essay before their HKU student status expires. Deadlines: – Monday 30 June 2014, 5pm (3rd year students) – Monday 1 September [...]
Travel Grants Applications
The deadline of this year’s travel grants application is 31 March 2014, 5 pm. There is only one application form for all travel grants. Click here to download a soft copy. For more details on the specific grants and the application procedures, please click here to visit our travel grants page.
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