Our third dispatch from Beijing comes from Tania Alvarez MFA 2017 Beijing: the food, the cheap art supplies, the wonderfully talented studios mates, CAFA, the architecture – all combined made for the perfect residency. This was the first of what I hope to be many residency experiences and one that I think will be impossible to forget. It was also the… Read More
Our second dispatch from Beijing comes from Isaac Mann MFA 2017.Getting StartedHere we are, halfway through our month in Beijing on the Central Academy of Fine Arts Artist Residency and none of us want to go home. I can tell you that lately not a day has gone by without one of us suggesting a new strategy for tricking the… Read More
Our first dispatch from Beijing comes from Pedro Perez-Guillon MFA 2017 News from Beijing! I have to start by saying that China has only surprised us in a positive way. First of all – the food. We have never eaten better and for so little money. For six dollars, we have been eating until we cannot take any more and our… Read More
by Taylor Schultek (MFA 2016) Where did it begin… Where did it end? Our final week in Beijing was so fast, the days all blend together. Extremely late nights, unreasonably early mornings, an hour of sleep here or there. Where to start and what to say? This past week changed my view of Beijing entirely, and what I was planning… Read More
The Anxiety of Progress And The Foreign Becomes Familiar by Sophia Kayafas (MFA 2016) We are down the street from CAFA and the five of us have just finished a bowl of hot spicy noodles at the Satisfactory Restaurant. The chopsticks are second nature by now. We slurp noodles in record time. I keep thinking how we came to China… Read More
By, Taylor Schultek (MFA 2016) Welcome to Wangjing. A district of Beijing, primarily inhabited by Koreans, bustles with the latest western style malls and taxis lining the streets. Situated along the north east section of the Fourth Ring of concentric circles that make up Beijing, this district is home to the Central Academy of Fine Art and is where we… Read More
By Sophia Kayafas (MFA 2016) Me in the sunflower garden I called my mother and told her I was hoping for a residency. She was of course very excited for me and after asking many questions she jokingly added with a hint of loving fret, “Oh God, I hope they don’t send you to China!” I laughed with her. And… Read More
By, Daniela Izaguirre (MFA 2016) and Benjamin Craig (MFA 2016) Danelia Izaquirre’s trip to China When it was my turn to write a blog post for the Academy’s blog I thought “Oh boy! I don’t know where to start!” I think I actually went: “Ay Dios!” Should I begin the week before our flight, when I texted my boyfriend at… Read More
By Dana Kotler MFA 2015 Today we returned to dusty Shanghai from a trip to the beautiful city of Hangzhou. A city where trees canopy the streets, motorcycles and bikes race back and forth, huge mountains hovering above the city in a foggy mist. The city is home to the Central Academy of Art, a university that has several campuses,… Read More
By Zoe Sua-Kay (MFA 2014) After a week in the Chinese capital and having soaked up some of the local culture and scene close to our hotel, we decided it was time to put our tourist hats on and see some of global tourism’s most famous sites – The Forbidden City, the Summer Palace and of course, the Great Wall… Read More
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