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Chinese artist Yue-zi Lu (center) created a painting as a gift for Central Carolina Community College during the Chinese Art Exhibition hosted by the college Thursday. He presented it to CCCC President Bud Marchant (left) at the exhibition as Guanglin Dai (right), program manager for North Carolina State University’s Confucius Institute, looks on. Lu and four other faculty of the College of Fine Arts at Nanjing Normal University in the People’s Republic of China, showed their traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy during the exhibition at the McSwain Center in Sanford. The event was made possible by the partnership between CCCC’s Confucius Classroom and NCSU’s Confucius Institute, a center for the teaching of Mandarin Chinese and the sharing of Chinese culture.

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Chinese calligraphic artist Ji-an Wang creates the word ‘peace’ in Chinese characters at the request of a visitor to the Chinese Art Exhibition hosted by Central Carolina Community College Thursday. Wang and four other faculty of the College of Fine Arts at Nanjing Normal University in the People’s Republic of China, showed and demonstrated  their traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy during the exhibition at the McSwain Center in Sanford. The event was made possible by the partnership between CCCC’s Confucius Classroom and North Carolina State University’s Confucius Institute, a center for the teaching of Mandarin Chinese and the sharing of Chinese culture.

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Chinese artist Yue-zi Lu creates a painting of autumn leaves and birds as a gift for Central Carolina Community College during the Chinese Art Exhibition hosted  by the college Thursday. Lu and four other faculty of the College of Fine Arts at Nanjing Normal University in the People’s Republic of China, showed and demonstrated their traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy during the exhibition at the McSwain Center in Sanford. The event was made possible by the partnership between CCCC’s Confucius Classroom and North Carolina State University’s Confucius Institute, a center for the teaching of Mandarin Chinese and the sharing of Chinese culture.

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Chinese artist Mi Lu creates knot work, similar to macramé, during the Chinese Art Exhibition hosted  by Central Carolina Community College Thursday. Lu and four other faculty of the College of Fine Arts at Nanjing Normal University in the People’s Republic of China, showed and demonstrated traditional Chinese paintings, calligraphy and other art during the exhibition at the McSwain Center in Sanford. The event was made possible by the partnership between CCCC’s Confucius Classroom and North Carolina State University’s Confucius Institute, a center for the teaching of Mandarin Chinese and the sharing of Chinese culture. Lu’s intricate scissors art work, on the table, was also on display.

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Professor Yue-zi Lu and four other faculty of the College of Fine Arts at Nanjing Normal University in the People’s Republic of China, exhibited their traditional Chinese paintings and calligraphy Thursday at the McSwain Center in Sanford. Lu was one of five artists in the exhibition hosted  by Central Carolina Community College. The event was made possible by the partnership between CCCC’s Confucius Classroom and North Carolina State University’s Confucius Institute, a center for the teaching of Mandarin Chinese and the sharing of Chinese culture.