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We are a community to encourage and enable communication and exchanges of Art educators, students, and artists worldwide. Our goal is to:

Enable art educators to share the best practices in art education around the world
Enable artists to share their art work, knowledge, and philosophy with a worldwide audience
Enable art students to gain access to online art courses worldwide, and to facilitate student internship and exchange opportunities

JESSICA LAU

STATEMENT

If I have to check a box, I check the one that says ‘Asian’. I’m Chinese-American. Categorization, such as race or gender, can be useful tools that simplify the complexities and multiplicities of our world. Yet I continuously struggle to define myself this way because of the cross-cultural perceptions associated with this identifier and the limitations set by its biased truths. With this in mind, my most recent ceramic sculptures and collages address such socially defined categories and how they make for both understanding and misunderstanding.

BIO

Jessica Lau lives and works out of Somerville, MA. As an artist and art teacher, she contends with the notion of cultural hybridity to embrace her own involvement in constructing representations. She received her BFA from Syracuse University and will be receiving her MFA in Visual Arts from Lesley University College of Art and Design in June 2020.

JOHN

THOMPSON

Email: jthompsonart@comcast.net

John founded and maintains a studio and print shop in the Lincoln Arts Building in Waltham, MA and a painting studio in Washington, CT. He teaches printmaking at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and leads an annual trip to China for MassArt students; the Danforth Museum; The Washington Art Association and other workshops in the region. He works with Master Printer Peter Pettingill at Wingate Studio in Hinsdale, NH. John serves on several boards of art and educational institutions.

Current and recent showings include: Webster and Company, Boston, MA; Coleman Fine Arts, Charleston, SC; Washington Art Association, Washington, CT; Urban Oasis Giveaway, HGTV, Boston, MA; Danforth Art- Off the Wall, Framingham, MA; Massachusetts College of Art and Design - Live in the MassArt Auction and other events, Boston, MA; Boston Printmakers, Boston, MA; Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA; Dual Action - Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; Thompson Gallery at the Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA; Aids Benefit Invitational, Barbara Karakow Gallery, Boston, MA; Sunshine Museum, Beijing, China; President's Invitational at Bentley College, Waltham, MA; Vitale, Caturano &Co, Charleston, MA; Two Lines Gallery, Beijing, China; Spaulding Rehabilitation Center, Boston, MA; and many others group shows around the country and internationally.

John holds degrees from Syracuse University (BFA), University of Wisconsin-Madison (MA), Babson College (MFA) and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MFA).

YANG

WAN

Email: yangwanspace@gmail.com

Email (China): yangwanspace@126.com

Wan Yang (b. 1992) is an artist working and living in San Francisco and Beijing. She received BFA from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2015. Wan Yang studied painting at Massachusettes College of Art and Design 2015-2017, where she found the way to express and communicate using painting and drawing, and she received a Master of Fine Arts in June 2017. Her work entitled OUTCAST belongs to the permanent collection of CAFA Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, and the painting SUMMER WHISPER was collected by Copelouzos Family Art Museum in Athens, Greece. The physicality of making an art piece, for her, is primarily in the subconscious creative process. She believes art has the potential to inspire and empower, to shape lives and carve soon-to-be-trodden paths. Perception is in sharp focus for her creative working process; painting is an extension of her body. She paints to explore the world.