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1 <br /> 4. Narrative Tyroler Introduction <br /> In collaboration with fiber artist Peg Gignoux and paper collage artist Sandy Milroy, we <br /> will explore innovative multimedia techniques to create a set of murals for 2 community based <br /> art events. We will research and experiment with alternative substrates such as silk, hand-made <br /> paper,metals, and wax. China scholars from the Carolina and Duke Asia Centers and policy <br /> analyst Samm Sacks from the New York Eurasia Group will serve as consultants to examine <br /> some of China's current social, familial, and political concerns. Using photographic stock <br /> portraiture from Tyroler's traveling exhibition,BeijingIinpressions, Artists and the Asian <br /> scholars and cultural partners will provide opportunities for discussion on topics such as the <br /> youth movement towards urban migration, wealth inequality, and environmental pollution during <br /> the public educational and community forums that complement the exhibitions. At times <br /> rendered metaphorically through layering and texture within the murals themselves or as <br /> traditional gallery wall text,the exhibition titles and art caption narratives will be in both English <br /> and Mandarin, including literary translations, poetry, and personal essays. <br /> Marnie Goldshlag, curator of art at the Community Unitarian Universalist Church will <br /> provide a Chapel Hill gallery venue for October 2014. In June 2014, Edie Carpenter, Director of <br /> Curatorial & Artist Programs will curate a Beijing exhibition at The Gallery at Greenhill in <br /> Greensboro. These invitations enable the I e year of experimental innovative progression of this <br /> body of work first created in 2004 in Beijing, China entitled Beijinglmpressions, Portraits ofa <br /> Foreign Landscape. This series has traveled throughout multiple venues in the DC metro and NC <br /> Triangle with the most recent transformative iteration Be Jing Impressions, Portraits ofa Shifting <br /> Landscape at the UNC Global Education Center, incorporating a new silk installation and a 17' <br /> banner. <br /> For these new exhibitions, it is critical to articulate fresh ideas and concepts to <br /> accommodate larger display venues, particularly in the museum-like atmosphere at Greenhill, <br /> and to the spiritual inclusivity themes of the Community Church sanctuary. Particularly for the <br /> Community Church, and for both venues, our goals include color, design, and textures that <br /> illustrate peace and harmony while addressing some universal global concerns. <br /> Exhibition History of Progression and Innovation <br /> This ten-year project has enabled a critical trajectory and focus for the development of an <br /> ever evolving and innovative professional body of work. The original Beijing Impressions series <br /> was a multi-layered impressionistically rendered photographic exhibition as a visual response to <br /> writings of a Chinese essayist Lin Bai, a child during the Cultural Revolution. The subsequent <br /> extended series recombine and incorporate five levels of interpretive transformation to date: The <br /> first level is Bai's Chinese essays poetically describing a passionate internal landscape written <br /> during a time of cultural repression and later published widely in the 1980s. The English <br /> translation by Sacks for her undergraduate honors thesis at Brown University took this to the <br /> second level in 2004. That year I traveled to Beijing to produce an impressionistic response <br /> examining family, transition; and memory through composited photographic imagery and <br /> layered video to produce the third level of transformation_ Sack's professional relationship with <br /> China has taken several paths, from her Fulbright scholarship in Beijing where this all began, to <br /> her work with the Council on Foreign Relations, the Department of Defense, and now as a <br /> consultant in New York City. Earning a Masters in International Security Studies from Yale <br /> University and a Bachelor's degree in Chinese Literary Translation from Brown University, she <br /> has immersed herself in her field. <br /> The art and literary translations were exhibited in several cultural art centers and <br /> universities with supplemental educational programming. Graphite and ink drawings by Sacks <br /> created during a Fulbright year studying migration in China were incorporated into photographic <br />