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Asian Cultural Center of Vermont and C.X. Silver Gallery, |
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Cai, Founder and Director, Asian Cultural Center of VT and C.X. Silver Gallery |
Adam
Silver, Executive Director, Asian Cultural Center of VT Business Manager, C.X. Silver Gallery |
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Xi Cai (pronounced “shee tsai”) is an established artist, painter for more than thirty years, art instructor for more than twenty years, in China and the United States, and a language instructor for more than ten years. She has been giving Chinese cultural performances for more than ten years. Cai is a graduate of Shanghai Drama Institute where she studied Fine Arts. She also studied painting with Professor Du Yingchao of the Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts. She has worked in film, theatre and television doing scenic painting, costume, make-up and stage design. She has had numerous solo and group shows over the past fifteen years. Cai also studied T’ai Chi Chuan martial arts in China with Master Jing Hui and is herself now a T’ai Chi master. Cai is a teacher, trainer and workshop presenter for children and adults in art, Chinese language and culture, calligraphy, and T’ai Chi. Besides teaching school groups, adult groups, home schoolers, and after school groups, she also teaches a class for parents and their preschoolers. Her goal is to bring art with Chinese language and culture to children and adults. |
Adam Silver is
a teacher, trainer and educational administrator with degrees in
art history and education/evaluation, advanced graduate certification
in educational administration, and graduate coursework in technology,
accounting, and teaching English to speakers of other languages.
With working knowledge of Chinese, French, Spanish and Hindi, he
was a Watson Fellow in India, Nepal and China, and has a special
interest in cross-cultural communications. For thirteen years, he
was principal in Vermont, Wisconsin and New York public schools,
responsible for fiscal, facility and personnel management, public
relations and events coordination. He has taught adults, high school,
elementary and middle school, early childhood, English as a second
language, special education, and foreign languages. He is a scholar
of Asian art, architecture and literature, and of cross cultural
studies at the intersection of art, philosophy, psychology and world
religions. He is webmaster for the Cultural Center and Gallery. |
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