Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco

Introduction: Our creative brush painting weekend classes are every Saturday 12:00-1:30pm. For beginners or intermediate level, our current offering is for adults only. For prospective students over 12 years old, please consult the center. Chinese watercolor and brush painting technique will be demonstrated and practiced every class. This class will include an introductory demonstration and hands-on sessions. Students may bring in their own painting supplies or purchase them from the teacher, Mrs. Madeleine Fu. Brush painting class schedule: January 9, 2010 – March 27, 2010, every Saturday, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm (1.15 - 1.22 Martin Luther King, Jr. weekly break). The tuition is for $200 per person for CCC members and $225 for non-CCC members. All classes are on first come first serve basis. All transactions are final with no refunds and no exceptions. Our introduction of Chinese calligraphy weekend classes are every Saturday 2:00-3:30pm. For beginners or intermediate level, our current offering is for adults only. For prospective students over 12 years old, please consult the center. This class will include an introductory demonstration and hands-on sessions. Students may bring in their own painting supplies or purchase them from the teacher, Mrs. Madeleine Fu. For the winter session, there will be 10 weeks of class. Calligraphy class schedule: January 9, 2010 – March 27, 2010, every Saturday, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm (1.15 - 1.22 Martin Luther King, Jr. weekly break). The tuition is for $225 per person for CCC members and $250 for non-CCC members. All classes are on first come first serve basis. All transactions are final with no refunds and no exceptions. About the instructor: Madeleine Fu (Chu Hsia) was born in 1922 in Beijing, China. She graduated from Hsin-Hua College of Art in Shanghai. She studied with several renowned masters. Among them was Te-Nien Fu who was famous for his calligraphy and paintings of pines, bamboos and plum flowers. They are symbolic in Chinese culture for elegance, humility and fortitude. Madeleine was so treasured a student that Te-Nien Fu encouraged and was delighted at the marriage of Madeline to his son Paul Fu. The Fu family was steeped in scholarly and artistic pursuit and had several generations of well-known artists. Madeleine and Paul both developed into noted young artists in Shanghai. They studied with Master Dai-Chiang Chang, one of the most sought after painters in China, famous for his large-scale landscape brush paintings. Madeleine and Paul came to the US in 1962 and opened Fu’s Art Studio in Mill Valley, CA. They have had many exhibits and demonstrations in the last 20 years in the Bay Area, including the De Young Museum's Asian Art Center.