In celebration of the 60th anniversary of Columbia’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute in Beijing, School of the Arts Global Programs and Visual Arts Program created a retrospective exhibition of printmaking for premiere at the Visual Art Center of the Academy of Arts and Design at Tsinghua Uniersity in Beijing, and later presented at Beijing’s Today Art Museum. The exhibition was conceived and curated by Tomas Vu-Daniel, Visual Arts Professor and Artistic Director of the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies; and Tan Ping, Vice President of Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
The 252 artworks in the exhbition reflected the diversity of the LeRoy Neiman Center, featuring School of the Arts printmakers from China, Germany, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Spain, Russia, Thailand and other countries. Among the artists included were William Kentridge, LeRoy Neiman, Visual Arts Professors Sarah Sze and Kara Walker, and Su Yin Zhao.
