September 3, 2008

Purdue's Confucius Institute offers calligraphy lecture, demonstration

Harrison Xinshi Tu, whose work is part of the Denver Art Museum's permanent collection, will present "Calligraphy: The Beautiful and Unique Chinese Art" from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Civil Engineering Building, Room 2113. The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Purdue's Confucius Institute

"Harrison Tu is a devoted artist who has created numerous works of calligraphy, many of which have been selected for exhibition in the United States, Japan, Korea and Singapore," says Wei Hong, a professor of Chinese and director of Purdue's Confucius Institute. "During the 10 years he has lived in the United States, he has become a proponent of exchange and mutual understanding between the East and West."

Since 1994 Tu has been editor-in-chief of the Chinese American Post, a Chinese-language newspaper available to the Rocky Mountain region. He also is a visiting professor at the Naropa University in Boulder, director of the Confucius Classroom in Denver and author of the book "The Wisdom and Art of Chinese Calligraphy."

The Confucius Institute at Purdue is a collaboration among the colleges of Liberal Arts, Engineering and the Krannert School of Management, as well as Shanghai Jiaotong University in Shanghai, China. Worldwide 140 Confucius institutes are sponsored by the Chinese Language Council International to develop relationships and understanding among countries.

Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert, (765) 494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu

Source: Wei Hong, (765) 494-3859, hongwei@purdue.edu 

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