Chinese Professors of the Loyola Marymount University grouped an association named as “China Club”
Chinese Professors of the Loyola Marymount University grouped an association named as “China Club” and hosted a club retreat at La Harbra in August 19th. During the retreat, they exchanged the professional trends of each area and discussed the possibility of promoting of communication between China and America on research and education, to improve the influence of Chinese professors in American academics.
Prof. Han Dai-Yu, who was the founder of the club, a tenured professor of art and art history department and Professor Sijun Wang of the college of business administration, Dr. Robin Wang, Professor and Director of the Asian and Pacific Studies and many of Chinese associate professors and assistant professors, as well as the Chair of the LMU Chinese Students and Scholars Association attended the event.
China Club founder, Prof. Han Dai-Yu said: “ The location of Loyola Marymount University is actually in the heart of the new Silicon Beach, which is the special gift for the university to launch a global imagination of the development of the school. I wish China Club faculty will do effort to promote the wide connection between Chinese art /science/ technology investment and the need of the university, to found an new high level education institution in Southern California, and for a longer term, to let our Chinese American scholars play more important role in the world.
Artist and Associate Professor Han Dai-Yu has been teaching drawing and painting for over twenty years. Dai-Yu received his BFA and MFA from the China Academy of Art, where he was offered a teaching post after graduating. Combining Western and traditional Chinese art and culture, he developed and instituted a comprehensive Chinese art program for the academy.
From 2001-2002, Dai-Yu held the position of Artist-in-Residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. He then moved to the United States, where he spent 2002-2006 as a visiting scholar and artist. Since 2006, Dai-Yu has been teaching at Loyola Marymount University as a full time faculty member of the Art and Art History department.
Dai-Yu’s volumes on drawing and painting have been published by the China National Academy Press and Taipei International Cultural Publishing House. His most recent textbook, Ignite the Soul: The Art of Figure Drawing, was published by Cognella Academic Publishing in 2014, following his earlier book, Drawing Code: East meets West, published by University Readers in 2009.
His art has been exhibited internationally at the Shanghai Art Museum and the Museum of Chinese Painting Institute in Shanghai, the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, École des hautes études en sciences socials, the LA Contemporary Art Gallery in Los Angeles, SCOPE Miami, and numerous contemporary art fairs. In 2015, Dai-Yu visited Taiwan National University of Arts to exhibit his art and present guest lectures. In December of the same year, the Charlotte Museum of History in Charlotte, NC hosted a solo exhibition of Dai-Yu’s paintings. Dai-Yu was recently nominated to exhibit in “The Path of Master Artists,” an exclusive invitational exhibition at the art gallery of the China National Institute of Chinese Painting in Beijing.
