Date：2017-07-27The 2nd International Children’s Creative Art Exhibition will be held in Shanghai

Pieces of beautiful calligraphy, colorful paintings, pieces of creative large-scale 3D printing art works, as well as wood, pottery, tie-dye, sculpture, paper art, etc. These works combining the beauty of art with the power of science and technology will be exhibited from 31. July at “The 2nd International Children’s Creative Art Exhibition”, which will be held in Shanghai Art Collection Museum free to the public.

“City of Happiness” Painting

Welgan Julia Anatolievna (14-years-old)

Recommended by Consulate General of Ukraine in Shanghai

“Wild Band” Oil Painting

Brianna (13-years-old)

 America

 “Ready to Go!” Ancient Tie-dye

Muyan Liu (6-years-old)

China

“Commandment Book” Seal Character - Calligraphy

Zhihan Gao (7-years-old)

China

“Sunflower and Cat” Oil Painting

Yiling Xu (10-years-old)

China

“The 2nd International Children's Creative Art Exhibition”, which is hosted by Shanghai Children’s Foundation and Shanghai Education Development Foundation, jointly organized by Shanghai Art Collection Museum (Shanghai Popularization Base of Science and Technology, Shanghai Student Social Practice Base) and Shanghai Changning District Education Foundation, is a large public activity. Showing the achievements of the artistic exchange, it aims to strengthen the collision, exchange and integration of different national cultures, to provide a platform of communication for children beyond race, language and culture, and to encourage children to actively participate in the communication of international art and culture.

The theme of the exhibition “Under the Same Starry Sky” means that young children come from different countries and have various characteristics, but they share the same starry sky. Like a splendid galaxy created by countless shiny stars, the exhibition aims to attract young artists from different countries and different regions to join us, so that colorful artistic flowers will emerge from the collision of different cultures, which will further enhance children's comprehension of foreign cultures, build a bridge of friendship, and achieve multi-cultural integration.

“Outer Space Bag” Composite Materials

Zoe (8-years-old)

Belgium

“Harmonious Society” Painting

Anna Lv (9-years-old)

China

“Tropical Flowers” Print Art

Ziru Min (9-years-old)

China

“Modern Women” Oil Painting

Boyuan Zhang (14-years-old)

China

Colorful Exhibits 

Diverse National Cultural Features

Relying on the international background of the metropolis Shanghai, the exhibition has attracted children’ s work from about 20 countries, including China, America, Germany, Belgium, Canada, Britain, Indonesia, Australia, Austria, Hungary, Singapore, Ukraine, New Zealand, etc. More than 200 pieces of works have been selected from hundreds of works to be presented. In order to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Ukraine, the Consul General of the Consulate General of Ukraine in Shanghai, Mr. Dumytro Ponomarenko, has personally selected 20 wonderful works to attend the exhibition.

“The Keeper” Painting

Busko Olga (15-years-old)

Recommended by Consulate General of Ukraine in Shanghai

“The Band” Composite Materials

Hugh (9-years-old)

Canada

“Pigeons” Composite Materials

Sastra (11-years-old)

Indonesia

“Trophy” Painting

Annan Chen (11-years-old)

China

The selected art works are rich in content, different in techniques, diverse in forms and distinct in genres, such as calligraphy, traditional Chinese painting, oil painting, print art, 3D printing, sculpture, creative handicraft, photography, pottery collage, wood, architectural model, papyrus painting, splash painting, tie dye and so on. They fully demonstrate the diversity of the world culture and release children's nature and imagination.

“Beauty of Life” Sculpture

Luca (9-years-old)

Singapore

“The Site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China” Architectural Model

Haiying Xu (14-years-old)

China

“Beads and Hairpins” Handicraft

Xinyang Li (11-years-old)

China

“The Stone Gate” Wood

Haokun Wu (13-years-old)

China

The British gouache “The Global Village” consists of black cosmic space, colorful earth and children holding hands around the globe. The cloth-pasting picture “We Are Family” shows three dolls with different skin colors, yellow, white and black. It uses Chinese folk techniques, such as cutting, weaving, embroidering, sticking, etc. and materials like the flannel, yarn, pompon, rope, cotton, buttons, feathers and so on. Both works symbolize that people from different countries, different races and different cultures live together harmoniously and friendly.

“The Global Village” Gouache

Junwei Shao (3-years-old)

Britain

“We Are Family” Cloth-pasting picture

Chenyu Wang (5-years-old)

China 

The large installation art work “Cosmos” filled with the beauty of art and technology perfectly combines canvas oil painting and 3D printing technology and shows us the volume of the vast universe, and the contrast of black and white brings us an amazing visual effect.

“Cosmos” Canvas Oil Painting plus 3D Printing

Zi’ an Zang (10-years-old)

China

“Tea” shows the Chinese tea culture with the combination of calligraphy, traditional Chinese painting, handicraft, etc.. The paper art work “Fu” with the combination of bats and coins means “Bless is right in front of you”. The group works “My Roles” present the opera faces. All these works showing traditional Chinese culture let children from other countries know about Chinese culture and feel its charm.

“Tea” Composite Materials

Pinrun Li (11-years-old)

China

“Fu” Paper Art

Sile Guo (10-years-old)

China

“My Roles” Watercolor Painting on Paperboard

Shanyi Zuo/Xinying Zhang/Xinyu Xu and other 10 children

(6- to 8-years-old)

China

In addition, the Austrian colored pencil painting “Salzburg under the Starry Sky” shows the exotic culture of Austria. The oil painting "Bridge" is full of Belgian style. The papyrus painting “The Tree of Life” represents the Egyptian cultural features. The integration of different cultures has become one of the highlights of this international exhibition.

“Salzburg under the Starry Sky” Colored Pencil Painting

Laurenz Kaml (12-years-old)

Austria

“Bridge” Oil Painting

Rachel (11-years-old)

Belgium

“The Tree of Life” Copy of the Egyptian Papyrus Painting

Tianyi Jiang (7-years-old)

China

(Copyright: Consulate General of the Arab Republic of Egypt)

Share the experience of famous experts
Focus on art science popularization education

In addition to children's art works from home and abroad, we have also invited well-known scientific artists, science and art education scholars to do some further discussions about children's art and science education, and help the audience understand the little-known beauty of art and the source of culture. Through the combination of science and art, science can be better integrated into our lives, art will glow too.
   Ms. Kui Yu, the granddaughter of Mr. Sicheng Liang and Ms. Huiyin Lin, Master of Information Management in San Francisco University, famous humanist, has been invited to the opening ceremony of the exhibition. Combining with the family predecessors Mr. Qichao Liang, Mr. Sicheng Liang and Ms. Huiyin Lin’ s experience of child education, she will deliver a lecture with the topic of “Interest is the best source of art education” to share with the guests and parents the importance of interesting teaching methods, which will provide a lot of inspirations for the educators and parents.

Wonderful extensive activities
Interactive experience become the highlight 

In order to better cultivate and practice the core values of socialism, we will actively participate in the project of “National Civilized City” in Changning District. During the exhibition period, we will also organize an activity with the theme of “To Be the Civilized Representative” in Changning District. Through artistic creation, educational exhibition, parent-children experience, etc., a wide range of activities for civilization promotion are organized in many children’ s families. It becomes a major highlight of the exhibition.

During the exhibition, activities of popularization of science and art with the theme of “the integration of beauty and power” will also be co-organized by   Changning District Science and Technology Committee and Shanghai Art Collection Museum. Through the “3D printing experience”, “tie-dye art experience”, “micro-space landscape designing experience”, “creative graffiti experience” and a series of other artistic and interactive activities, scientific knowledge will be fully interpreted, so that science can be better integrated into our lives and art will also glow.

    In addition, Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Shanghai , will continue to launch a special activity for the children like the “the Charm of Poland” held last year, which is worth expecting.
    During the extensive exhibition period, the exhibition will organize the cultural promotion series activities. Through the artistic creation, educational exhibition, parent-child experience, etc., the city civilization manners will be promoted and the majority of young children will be guided to establish a lofty ambition, cultivate a beautiful soul, and develop in an all-around way.

 Authoritative Award  Wide impact

A double evaluation mechanism has been specially set up for this exhibition with the combination of experts and online evaluation, which will ensure the authority of the awards by inviting educational experts, representatives of professional organizations, artists and representatives of consulates general in Shanghai to participate in the evaluation; at the same time, the online votes on some popular websites attract a large number of people to join us, which could be fair and also fully discover the art talents with potentials. The authoritative certificates will be issued by the host units who have an extensive social impact. Besides, the large-scale awarding ceremony and collection book publication will enhance the social impact of this exhibition and promote the children art education to a higher level.

The exhibition will be held until 30. Aug. (The museum is closed on Mondays.)