Guest artist reviving China's ceramics supremacy


  • October 17, 2014
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   training-development
Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Invited International Artist Yixin Lin will give a public presentation at the Anna Lamar Switzer Building at Pensacola State College from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 3. The event is free and open to the public. During her stay in Pensacola, she will also be giving presentations at Creative Learning Academy, N.B. Cook Elementary School, Escambia and Pensacola high schools. Yixin Lin is a MA Designer and Maker graduate from Camberwell College of Arts, University of Arts London, focusing on ceramic art. Yixin Lin now lives in Jingdezhen, China’s ancient “porcelain capital” and is part of a movement dedicated to restoring China’s position as the great power in ceramics. Yixin Lin and fellow artists were featured in the Financial Times earlier this year. Her focus is in study the relationship between people’s emotions with a ceramic object, and the Japanese aesthetic Wabi-Sabi, the beauty of nature, impermanence and imperfection. Her most recent practice is driven by a fascination with the clay's natural process, combined with the artist's own influence. She creates organic shapes, which are full of attractive details, reminding people of something from nature – seedpods, nuts, flowers, and sea shells. Previous work includes installation, oil painting, and book design. Learn more about Yixin Lin and her work at www.yixinlin.com. Yixin Lin will also demonstrate her craft on the festival site during the Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival, Nov. 7 - 9 in Seville Square. The festival is one of the best-regarded, most popular arts festivals in the United States. The three-day, juried art show draws more than 200 of the nation's best painters, potters, sculptors, jewelers, graphic artists, craftsmen and other artists. The Festival is ranked #33 in the nation by Sunshine Artist Magazine and the American Bus Association has named it one of the Top 100 Events in North America.  
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