BGuthrie Photos: Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2014) -- China

Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2014) -- China:

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Description of Pictures: Performers include: Ih Tsetsn Ensemble from Inner Mongolia
Artists include: Thanjin Clay Figurine Zhang Workshop, and Zhang Baolin Dough Modeling, and Yan Gao (Yangliuqing Fine Arts Press New Year's Print Making by Tianjin)

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. FOLKCH_140706_063.JPG: Flower Plaques, Hong Kong Flower plaques are decorated bamboo structures used for celebrations such as business openings, weddings, or anniversaries. Versatile, lightweight, and temporary, they are made from bamboo frames, tin, wire mesh, paper, fabric, and plastic. Their parts are modular, reusable, and easily assembled and stored. They are found at this large scale primarily in southern China, especially in Hong Kong, where craftspeople draw on the related skills of bamboo scaffold workers and builders of bamboo ritual theater. This structure at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival was designed by Danny Yung, a producer and artist from Hong Kong. For this piece, Yung collaborated with Choi Wing Kei, who began learning the tradition of bamboo construction and the art of flower plaque making from his father when he was thirteen years old. In his artist statement, Yung states: "This is an installation experiment that merges traditional creativity with contemporary creativity. The traditional spirit of folk creative work in Hong Kong is rooted in bold experimentations, open and limitless interactions, collaborations, and dialogues." This flower plaque, measuring 112 feet in length and composed of over 2,000 pieces of bamboo, was inspired in part by the West Kowloon Cultural District's Bamboo Theatre. The West Kowloon Cultural District is a cultural quarter that is being built in Hong Kong's harbor front area. Beginning in 2011, the District has installed a temporary bamboo theater on site during the Chinese New Year period to present programs in preparation for the opening of the new Xiqu Centre, a purpose-built theatre for xiqu (traditional Chinese theater), which is now under construction and scheduled for completion in 2016.
2. FOLKCH_140706_087.JPG: Ih Tsetsn Ensemble from Inner Mongolia
3. FOLKCH_140706_209.JPG: Thanjin Clay Figurine Zhang Workshop
4. FOLKCH_140706_237.JPG: Figures made from dough
5. FOLKCH_140706_270.JPG: Zhang Baolin has been creating dough models since the 1970s, when he apprenticed with the dough modeling master Lang Shaoan in Beijing. Using dough made form flour or glutinous rice, he can create models in as short as fifteen minutes, and more complex ones in an hour. He has traveled and dmonstrated his art both nationally and internationally. He is a Beijing municipal-level intangible cultural heritage bearer.
6. FOLKCH_140706_287.JPG: Yan Gao Yangliuqing Fine Arts Press New Year's Print Making Tianjin The Yangliuqing Fine Arts Press is a state-owned company with more than fifty craftsmen working on different parts of the New Year's printmaking process. Three of these craftsmen are participating in the Festival: Chen Yuhua, Gao Yan, and Wang Wenda. Gao specializes in creating the outline of the image on thin sheets of rice paper, which are then adhered to the wood block and used as the guide for carving. Chen Yuhua has worked in the company for more than twenty years, specializing in hand painting additional color to the images after they have been printed. Wang Wenda carved the images from the woodblocks.
7. FOLKCH_140706_352.JPG: Maria Marable-Bunch, Lonnie Bunch
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