Mandarin Chinese through Arts

Mandarin Chinese through Arts

Age Range: 5 and up

Class Time (EST): 11 am EST

Class Days: Fridays

Instructor Name: Mei Mei Chang

Instructor Email: [email protected]

Instructor cell phone: 2025563988

Class Description

The class will focus on Chinese cultures, arts, and language using daily life dialog. Chinese Culture: Explore the rich history, traditions, customs, and social norms of Chinese culture. Chinese Arts: Introduce traditional Chinese arts such as calligraphy, painting, and traditional crafts. Chinese Language: Focus on practical language skills with an emphasis 

Class Skills Development 

Basic greetings, 20 radicals, and different topics about daily life. What are Chinese radicals? What’s Chinese culture about How to read picture books How to identify colors, numbers, animals, transportation, and more 

Class Materials 

Each student will need a notebook, pencils, and markers. 

Class Norms 

Students will respect the teacher and others during the class. Each student will work on their homework every week and turn it in on time through Google Classroom. 

About the Instructor 

Mei Mei received her Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Ohio University in 2002. As a mixed media and installation artist, Mei Mei explores various media to bridge her internal and external worlds. She is a lifelong student of the human psyche, fascinated by the mind's ability to focus on details great and small without limits. Using her internal symbols, she creates rich visual images that are both highly personal and accessible by all. Mei Mei has received numerous awards and residencies, including at the Vermont Studio Center, Great River Art Association, the ARCH Residency at Honfleur Gallery, the Montgomery College Artist Residency, and second place in the Contemporary South Exhibition. As an artist, I’ve always been drawn into the depth and the mysterious side of the psyche. This is the source of my art and I can only express it in a language that transcends words. Through my work, I have always translated the topographical maps of the mind onto multilayered and patterned surfaces. Studying visual art and photography at Ohio University, and working at various locations and in diverse contexts across the US has led to my personal internal landscape’s taking on its appearances, colors, attractions, and distractions, all of which have culminated in the work that I do. Among the many symbols of my mind is the awareness of similarities and differences between Eastern and Western cultures. There are connections between internal symbols and connections that stretch out to the external. I believe that there is as much to uncover beneath the surface as to discover on the surface. Our minds occupy a space between the conscious and the subconscious; my work encompasses what is beneath the awareness of consciousness and beyond the passive knowing of subconsciousness, and brings it to life. "Another aspect of the human mind that I explore is its freedom from the boundaries of macro and micro scales and its power of infinitesimal infinitude. My work is a place for the mind to move without limits, from the work down through layers of ever more granular complexity." ​