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Added by Hou Yumei 侯玉梅
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The Paper cut atist we had for the show had to drop out for personal reasons, so I started looking for other paper cut artists. Your work is so incredible. It would be an honor to have you in our gallery.
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My name is Valerie, and you can email me at sungallery@comcast.net. Thank you for your consideration!
56-year-old Hou Yu Mei , Manchu, from the cutouts love art, she inherited the three generations of ancestral paper-cutting art skills.
1980-1984 Tonghua,Jilin Province graduated from the Teachers College of Fine Arts;
1986 Tonghua county cultural centers of the art counselling cadres;
1997 in the "professional and technical positions as eligible" people's Republic of China Ministry of personnel; Jilin Provincial Personnel Department as "# two Artist"Title; (Senior title)
2000 cutouts of the Beijing Daxing School Professor;
2006 of the Tonghua Normal College visiting professor at the
Fine Arts Department;
1995 by UNESCO and the Chinese Folk Literatur and Art Association Awarded the " arts and Crafts home" title;
2000 on the Chinese folk paper-cut, council member;
2004 cutouts of the China Research Society of JiLin Province, Vice chairman of the Manzhu;
January 2001 to San Francisco. (Naturalized United States citizen in 2006).
Hou, Yu mei of the three major purposes
Promotion of cultural arts: (1) inheritance Manchu paper-cut art heritage; (2) the development of innovative Manchu paper-cut
art, a selfstyle , (3) Inheritance Manchu paper-cut art, the next
generation of successors, Manchu paper-cut art heritage from generation to generation.
Papers; won experience; papers, and other four were in the "Chinese paperselection; "Chinese folk paper-cut art"; "China and Land Art Newspaper"; "Jilin mass culture"; "Chinese Art "; and other issues.
Hou, Yu Mei cutouts of the Manchu bool publishing situation
Link also painted cutouts (first two) 59, "Northeast China Folk Tales" books. Published in Germany in 1991 by a researcher at the Institute in Germany pay Marui editing and publishing.
May2005 in China's publishing, Zhen-Jun Zhao editorial layout. Jilin photography publishing House.
paper-cut works published
cutouts with a brother also painted art in Hong kong published in 1984; second leaflet titled "World Art" book, the Institute published in Germany and Germany.
cutouts also Illustrated even in the "Chinese Art" book, (Qi Baishi behind) in 1992;published in Germany.
paintings are also cutouts with " Chinese Folk Art" in the book. 1983. publication of Japan.
Collection and publication of
21, 39, 30, 25, 45, 16, 59,
Accept the proposition performances at the scene
1991 January-February and 1993, from March 4 to April 14 by the Chinese Ministry of Culture, the recommendation, the Chinese paper cutting study wil be assigned to Malmo, Sweden, single-MR, Berlin, Hesse, Austria Victoria also The cutouts performances at the scene.
Lifelong memorable teeacher;Wang Chunxin, Guang-Ming Zhao, Jason Hu ;David R. Thmas.(Americans bubble sculpture teacher).
Its uses cutouts
Can be used for building walls, canopy, and beams; porcelain tiles; clothing, taking back, linens, sheets, curtains, Curtain; Mount, plaque; Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, HE business is booming; New Year, academic, Happy gifts; withe cutouts live performances more atmosphere.
Yumei Hou was born in 1952. She came to America in 2001. She got American Citizenship in 2006.
She was a Professor and Research director of Chinese Paper-cut Art in Department Culture of TongHua country JiLin Province of China. and at Da Xing country Paper-cuts School of
China, Also she had a title of "Folk Industrial Artist" by the U.M.Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization. She was also the director of Chinese Folk Artist Association; the Vice-president of the Man Nationality. Paper-cut Research Association.
She grew up in the family of the Man Nationality. and affected
by her mother to study paper-cut since her childhood. She was engaged in agriculture in her youth and insisted to make paper-cuts as well as conscientiously study the tradional Man
nationality paper-cut to form self style.
The works of paper-cut "Crop Yard" ; "Good New Year" have won the champion ship in the game of paper-cut inwhole country. The works of paper-cuts " ginseng's dream "Xiao Hanzi "
issued on "paper-cutss collection" of many of big type of China.
She was distinguished as a member of Chinese Folk Artist delegation to visit Sweden; Denmark; Germany; Austria and was famous for her excellent paper-cutting skill since 1991.